Transcript UOCG-themabijeenkomst

Computer Science
Bachelor Graduation Project
November 15, 2007,
UOCG
Jacqueline van Kruiningen ([email protected])
Actieplan rendementen CvB
(student output)
Maatregelen op terrein van onder andere
“de kwaliteit van en begeleiding bij
scripties/afstudeerwerkstukken”.
“Er voor zorgen dat ongewenste en
onbedoelde studievertraging vanwege de
scriptie wordt voorkomen”.
Preconditions for graduation
project:
• Student-competences, basic skills
• Clarity for students: responibilities? what
kind of tasks? Criteria?
• Balance between input student /
supervisor
About teaching:
• Cultural- / discipline-specific / individual
differences in teaching styles
• Implicit theories about teaching
• Inconsistency: teachers’ and students’
expectations / interpretations with regards to
(writing) tasks
• Imperfect tuning / communication between
teaching staff
Questions
• Nature / differences Ba- and Ba-thesis
• Operationalisation (of differences):
procedures, supervision, assessment
criteria
• Route towards Ba-thesis / Ma-thesis
• How to cope with ‘hidden curricula’, with
workload, with policies (papieren tijgers?)
Functions of a thesis
• Acquiring knowledge, insights
• Practicing of skills
• Demonstration of competences
(or a combination)
(Mirande en Wardenaar 1997)
Learning outcomes?
Decide on
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learning outcomes
function of thesis
nature of the thesis
foregoing curriculum
supervision procedures, guidelines
assessment criteria
• See for example:
www.rug.nl/biologie/onderwijs/bachelorscri
ptie
• online writnig help for students:
http://www.rug.nl/noordster
• writing center:
http://www.rug.nl/studenten/voorzieningen/
studieondersteuning/schrijfcentrum