This chapter investigates the experiences of doctoral students and supervisors in the doctoral process, focusing on the potential impact of imbalances in the distribution of power. In this respect, there are troublesome manifestations of excessive faculty entitlement that appear to be a source of inequality and injustice. These phenomena call into…

Over the past decade, co-supervision of PhD candidates has become increasingly common across the disciplines. However, co-supervision has been explored previously primarily from the candidates' viewpoint and in small-scale qualitative studies. We have extended the research by examining co-supervisory experience from the supervisor's perspective,…

Purpose: This study offers implications for remote mentoring within school university partnerships based on a qualitative study focused on how three experienced mentor teachers within a long-standing Professional Development School (PDS) partnership adapted to remote mentoring during emergency remote teaching in the 2020-2021 school year.…

The alignment of student-supervisor expectations in doctoral research builds a foundation for strong supervisory relationships. While some expectations around research practice and outputs are clearly stated and regulated, the expectations concerning personal aspects of supervisory relationships are seldom voiced. To address this gap, this article…

Purpose: This study aims to further the understanding of employees' engagement by explaining their organizational commitment through their perception of the availability of work-life benefits in the organization. This study also investigates the mediating role of job satisfaction in this context. Design/methodology/approach: The model was tested…

The purpose of this study was to examine Career and Technical Education (CTE) teachers' perceptions of feedback from supervisors. All CTE teachers in North Dakota were surveyed during early 2023. A series of one-way ANOVAs and t-tests were run to compare the differences in teachers' perceptions based upon reported professional characteristics. The…

The study mainly examined the school heads' supervisory competence of school heads and teachers' performance. It determined the level of school heads' supervisory competence in terms of instructional supervision, professional and motivational competence; the managerial behavior in advocating competence of school heads; particularly in planning,…

The purpose of this research was to determine whether supervisor support (SS) plays a moderating role in the perception of overqualification (POQ) on workplace loneliness (WL) among music teachers in Turkey. The research was based on the assumption that loneliness, which is a negative emotional state and expresses employees' inability to establish…

This study examined the adequacy with which instruction is being supervised, the quality of interpersonal relationships between supervisors and teachers and teachers' suggestions for improving the instructional supervision in Nigeria. The sample consisted of 361 teachers from the Delta Central Senatorial District, of Delta State, Nigeria.…

Women are increasingly being hired as online adjunct faculty, so it is important to examine the different indicators that contribute to their overall job satisfaction. The purpose of this quantitative study is to examine the relationships between female online adjunct faculty's perceptions of job satisfaction and supervisor leadership style at…

In the context of an increasing number of doctoral studies on the African continent, there is a paucity of research examining the daily relationship between supervisors and doctoral students in Francophone sub-Saharan Africa. Consequently, the experience of doctoral students in this field is under-debated, under-questioned, under-analysed and…

The study evaluated the suitability of primary school teachers' professional development policy implementation conceptualization of targets, reflective contents, process, methods and contexts in which it occurs in Oromia. The researchers used a mixed method with concurrent triangulation design. The researchers selected a total of 618 samples of…

In this study, we examined the relationships between perceived supervisor support, work engagement, and burnout levels of teachers by using multilevel analysis. We assumed that a high level of perceived supervisor support would relate positively to work engagement but negatively to burnout. We also suggested that work engagement would mediate the…

This exploratory case study examined supervisors' perceptions of supervision of undergraduate research projects, and whether the level of experience affects the quality of the supervision process. Data were collected through questionnaires and interviews. Participants were three supervisors with varying levels of experience in the supervision…

This study examined the factor structure and evidence of measurement invariance of a programme completer survey for pre-service teachers in the teacher preparation programme. The 33-item survey assessing aspects of teacher quality was completed by 455 teacher candidates, 455 cooperating teachers, and 66 university supervisors. Exploratory…