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Evaluating thesis supervision: a checklist

Checklist of eight points for evaluating master's thesis supervision, from asking about the relationship and feedback to small-group reporting rules.
Supervision is one to one, so the evaluation has to protect students and stay fair to supervisors Source: Based on de Kleijn et al. (2012, 2014) and Mainhard et al. (2009)
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A checklist for programme directors and quality teams who want to evaluate master's or bachelor's thesis supervision. It covers what to ask students, drawing on research that links the supervisor-student relationship to grades and satisfaction, and how to report results when each supervisor has only a few students. Use it to design a supervision evaluation or review an existing one. Koji can run the student side as a short conversational evaluation.

What's in this checklist

  • Ask about the relationship, not only the feedback: support, warmth, availability
  • Ask whether feedback pointed forward to the next draft
  • Ask how much structure the student wanted, and how much they got
  • Collect feedback separately from the grade, and say so
  • Report at programme level, or pool several cohorts per supervisor
  • Set a minimum number of students before showing any supervisor's results
  • Use results for supervisor development, not for ranking
  • Keep thesis grading independent of the supervisor where you can

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