Student-supervisor interaction problems in joint research activity

O.A Selivanova,O.I Dubrovina,O.N Rodina,A.I Savenkov

doi:10.1051/shsconf/20208700030

Abstract

Growing interest in improving the quality of student’s research activity in higher education has led to an emphasis on student-supervisor interaction in joint research activity. The study presented here was carried out in Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia. The participants were 30 supervisors and 60 students from the Pedagogical Institute. The study defined student and supervisor interaction problems and characterized the ways of student-supervisor interaction that reduce student’s motivation for a creative approach to writing research work when student’s research work is perceived as (1) supervisor’s burden, (2) a source of supervisor’s innovative ideas, (3) a source of additional information or (4) a source of primary information processing for supervisor’s scientific work. Implications are given to prevent ineffective ways of student-supervisor interaction and improve the quality of student’s research training in multi-level university education.

Highlights

Universities face challenges due to the nature and structure of information presented in electronic environment: formalized operations of ‘juggling’ with fragments of text minimize the need for thoughtful analysis of the content, its comprehension and building own ideas about the phenomenon being studied without which it is impossible to create any author’s text, not to mention a piece of scientific research
Using experts’ survey, we identified three categories of research work quality for each of the selected criteria: (1) a high quality level: compliance with design requirements for scientific research, a meaningful content, verified methodology; (2) an average quality level: compliance with design requirements for scientific research, a formal information presentation, minor violations in methodology; (3) a low quality level: violations in design requirements for scientific research, information omissions, gross violations in methodology
It has been established that the main difficulties in the interaction of a supervisor and a student in scientific research consist of determining the topic, subject, object of research, and hypothesis

Summary

A problem statement

One of the key goals of the project «Science» until 2024 is to ensure collaboration between Russian and Foreign leading researchers and young promising ones in the Russian Federation. In his studies, Gospodarik concludes that information and communication technologies have become a powerful factor in the modern education system, while scientific and pedagogical communities pay insufficient attention to the phenomenon of students’ immersion on the Internet.

The objective of the work

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