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Michael T. O'Connell; Christian Stöhr; Patric Wallin; Raffaella Negretti – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2024
Engineering education has seen a growing interest in how students regulate their learning as a group in interdisciplinary projects. This study adds to the current literature on social regulation of learning by conducting a comparative case study of three interdisciplinary group projects addressing real-world challenges. Semi-structured qualitative…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Self Control, Interdisciplinary Approach, Group Dynamics
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Nylander, Elisabeth; Hjort, Margareta – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2022
Doctoral studies offer a unique phase in the development and legitimisation of researchers, in which PhD students shift from consumption to production of knowledge. While literature exists concerning the information behaviour of graduate students and researchers, there is little work which focuses specifically on the information literacies of PhD…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Doctoral Students, Doctoral Programs, Hermeneutics
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Eriksson, Andreas; Nordrum, Lene – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2018
Background: Data commentary, in-text comments on the visual presentation of data, is acknowledged as a central aspect of academic writing in many engineering disciplines. At the same time, it is a feature that has been shown to be challenging for students. One of the genres in which data commentary plays a significant role in many engineering…
Descriptors: Chemical Engineering, Student Attitudes, Graduate Students, Masters Theses
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Geschwind, Lars; Melin, Göran – Studies in Continuing Education, 2016
In this study, two multidisciplinary Social Sciences and Humanities research schools in Sweden have been investigated regarding disciplinary identity-making. This study investigates the meetings between different disciplines around a common thematic area of study for Ph.D. students. The Ph.D. students navigate through a complex social and…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Self Concept, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students
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Mählck, Paula – Tertiary Education and Management, 2018
Focusing on Tanzanian and Mozambican PhD students funded by Swedish development aid, this article investigates how everyday academic work life is gendered in Sweden and in the students' home academic departments. In particular, it focuses on the role of 'important others', such as international donors, universities, colleagues and family, in…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs, Gender Differences
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Linden, Jitka; Ohlin, Mats; Brodin, Eva M. – Studies in Higher Education, 2013
The learning that ensued from the mentorship relationship on a mentorship program for doctoral students at a Swedish university was studied in three cases (two in social science and one in technology). The aim was: (a) to explore how doctoral students, their formal mentors and their supervisors describe their own learning, and how they perceive…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Mentors, Supervision, Doctoral Programs
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Jaldemark, Jimmy; Lindberg, J. Ola – Studies in Higher Education, 2013
In Sweden, technology-mediated participation has increased in tertiary education, which has led to changing conditions for its delivery. However, one part has proven more resistant to change, technology-mediated or not: the supervision of students' undergraduate dissertation work. This article presents a study that analyses technological…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Theses, Supervision, Computer Mediated Communication
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Sajeev, A. S. M.; Crnkovic, Ivica – IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, Proceedings (MS), 2012
Hiding critical information has resulted in disastrous failures of some major software projects. This paper investigates, using a subset of Keil's test, how graduates (70% of them with work experience) from different cultural backgrounds who are enrolled in a postgraduate course on global software development would handle negative information that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Masters Programs, Industrial Psychology, Technical Occupations
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Sundin, Eva C.; Ogren, Marie-Louise – Issues in Educational Research, 2006
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of two different admission procedures (high school grades/scholastic aptitude test (SAT) versus high school grades/SAT + interview) to a program in professional psychology on students' and supervisors' experiences of the group climate in psychotherapy supervision groups during an eighteen-month…
Descriptors: Supervisors, Foreign Countries, High Schools, Grades (Scholastic)