Research supervision: Matches and mismatches

International Journal of Electrical Engineering and Education

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 295-306

  Murphy, Noela ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Beliefs; Controlling guiding; Orientations; Research higher degree (RHD) supervision; Task focussed person focussed

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

BELIEFS; COMPLETION TIME; CONTRIBUTORY FACTORS; CONTROLLING-GUIDING; ORIENTATIONS; RESEARCH SUPERVISIONS; TASK-FOCUSSED-PERSON-FOCUSSED;

SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL;

EID: 70349306549     PISSN: 00207209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7227/IJEEE.46.3.7     Document Type: Article

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