Material for PhD course given at Software Engineering, GU and Chalmers
Prepare for the discussion by reading/checking the following material before coming to the seminar:
- Grohnert2024, Grohnert et al (2024), "Effective master’s thesis supervision – A summative framework for research and practice"
- Feldt2010 Feldt (2010), "Process and rubrics for the BTH SE Master Thesis course", 2007-2010
When reading/checking these sources be sure to take some notes and reflect on how it matches with your own experience (or, if you haven't yet supervised) what you plan to do in and approach your future supervision.
For this first seminar, you can focus on the process description and the proposal rubric of Feldt2010, but feel free to also check out the other rubrics to get a sense for how they were used throughout the process.
Slides from this seminar:
- Robert Feldt, "Kickoff and Philosophies of Supervision"
- Greg Gay, "GU/Chalmers Supervision Process"
Additional links:
Prepare for the discussion by reading/checking the following material before coming to the seminar:
- Jaakkola2022, Jaakkola et al (2022), "Practices for Supervising Master’s Theses in Company Context: An Anti-Pattern Approach"
- Stol2018 Stol (2018), "The ABC of Software Engineering Research"
When reading/checking these sources be sure to take some notes and reflect on how it matches with your own experience (or, if you haven't yet supervised) what you plan to do in and approach your future supervision.
Slides from this seminar:
Additional links:
- Höst2010 Höst et al (2010), "Support for Different Roles in Software Engineering Master's Thesis Projects"
Prepare for the discussion by reading/checking the following material before coming to the seminar:
- Ralph2020, Ralph et al (2020), "Empirical Standards for Software Engineering Research, Version 0.2.0", ACM SigSoft, 2020
You should orient yourself in general about the standard as a whole and the type of checklists that is defined by it. Furthermore, you should select and read in more detail at least:
- a, the general standard which applies to any research paper/report
- b, but also select the two standards/checklists that represents the research methods / type of papers that your thesis students are most likely to use.
Slides from this seminar:
- Robert Feldt, "Empirical standards and feedback"
- Hans-Martin Heyn, "Providing feedback" PPTX file
- Hans-Martin Heyn, "Case studies in SE" PPTX file
Additional links:
- Bearman2024, Bearman et al (2024), "Enhancing feedback practices within PhD supervision: a qualitative framework synthesis of the literature", Journal of Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2024
- Chugh2022 Chugh, Ritesh, Stephanie Macht, and Bobby Harreveld. "Supervisory feedback to postgraduate research students: a literature review." Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 47.5 (2022): 683-697.
- Mustafa2024, Nadeem Mustafa blog post "From Novice to Expert: Discover the 12 Essential Models for Feedback Mastery", Medium, 2024
- Shows general feedback models from business etc that might provide additional perspective on feedback styles
- Wohlin2022, "Is it a case study? - A critical analysis and guidance", JSS, 2022