Acceptance: A Mentor’s Joys and Responsibilities

Reflecting on the life experiences of doctoral students on the responsibilities of supervisors as research mentors

The purpose of the present qualitative phenomenological research was to explore the perceptions and experiences of the doctoral students on supervisors' responsibilities in the role of research mentors. In order to collect the research information, semi-structured interviews were conducted with twenty-one doctoral students who were selected by using purposive sampling with maximum variation. Th...

The Joys of Bisimulation

Mentors.

SAMPLE DISSERTATION TOPICS  New York State’s Principal Evaluation System: Perceptions of Principals & Evaluators...  Teacher Beliefs about Literacy Learning and Classroom Practices  Career & Technical Education (CTE) Alignment with 21 Century Skills  Comparative Case Analysis of the Innovation in 5 STEM schools based on Zhao’s framework for 21 Century World Class Leaders  A Multi-Year Stud...

Defining the roles of advisors and mentors in postgraduate medical education: faculty perceptions, roles, responsibilities, and resource needs.

BACKGROUND Residency program directors rely on an informal network of faculty mentors to provide guidance for residents. Faced with increasingly sophisticated competency-based evaluation systems and scrutiny of patient safety and resident well-being in today's environment, residency programs need more structured mechanisms for mentoring. OBJECTIVE To clarify the role of resident advisors and ...

IS Education for Executives: Joys and Pains

Executive education in IS is under the scrutiny of many institution for the potential to bring in financial revenues. However teaching executives can be a very challenging task because of their previous experiences, variation in their previous education, and multiplicity of motivations for pursuing a continuous education. The panel aims at sharing successful experiences and highlighting challen...