Open AccessPostgraduate student and his dissertation: potential and risks of defense
Author(s) -
Nadezhda Bagdasaryan,
Tatyana Balueva,
Olga Krupa
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
vestnik gosudarstvennogo universiteta «dubna». seriâ «nauki o čeloveke i obŝestve»
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2687-0231
DOI - 10.37005/2687-0231-2020-0-9-3-18
Subject(s) - typology , supervisor , graduate students , psychology , resource (disambiguation) , graduate education , homogeneous , point (geometry) , pedagogy , mathematics education , medical education , sociology , computer science , political science , medicine , mathematics , computer network , geometry , combinatorics , anthropology , law
In this paper, the authors attempted to answer the question about the reasons for the unsatisfactory state of learning outcomes in graduate school. A multidimensional typology of graduate students was carried out (using the example of Dubna State University) using cluster analysis with preliminary factor analysis. The authors identified the key latent factors: interaction with the supervisor, sociocultural potential, organization of work on the thesis, career opportunities underlying the cluster model. Inside the graduate community, there are four internally homogeneous clusters: “depressed”, “resource”, “disappointed”, and “random”. It is shown that the most promising from the point of view of scientific “growth” and the defense of the thesis are graduate students of the second group – “resource”. At the same time, the strongest motivational factors that act as a guarantor of the successful completion of postgraduate studies and defending a thesis are still the established interaction with the supervisor and interest in the research topic - the traditional “values” of any graduate student.