A model for the supervisor-doctoral student relationship

Higher Education

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 359-373

  Mainhard, Tim ^a   van der Rijst, Roeland ^a   van Tartwijk, Jan ^a   Wubbels, Theo ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Doctoral student; Feedback; Guidance; PhD supervision; Supervisor

Indexed keywords

EID: 71449085471     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-009-9199-8     Document Type: Article

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