PhD Students' Evaluations of Research Supervision

This article is based on an earlier paper commissioned and distributed by the Australian Council of Deans and Directors of Graduate Students and presented to a meeting of Australian Pro Vice Chancellors of Research and, subsequently, at the Postgraduate Research Experience Questionnaire (PREQ) Seminar that was organized by the Graduate Careers Council of Australia in association with the Australian Department of Education, Training, and Youth Affairs. We would like to thank the Australian Council for Educational Research and Bruce Guthrie of the Graduate Careers Council of Australia who provided us with draft reports and the data used in this article. In addition, we would like to acknowledge the Australian Council of Educational Research for their work in assembling and preparing data files that facilitated our research and for earlier analyses of these data conducted by Gerry Elsworth, Adrian Harvey-Beavis, and Sue Fullarton. We would also like to thank Kit-Tai Hau, Kate Johnson, Wijesir Jayasinghe, and members of the Australian Council of Deans and Directors of Graduate Studies for helpful comments on earlier versions of this draft. We emphasize, however, that our interpretations of the results are our responsibility and may not be in agreement with those of persons and organizations whom we have acknowledged. This research was funded in part through a grant to the first author from the Australian Research Council. Correspondence in relation to this article should be sent to Professor Herbert W. Marsh, SELF Research Centre, Bankstown Campus, University of Western Sydney, Penrith South NSW, 1797, Australia (h.marsh@uws.edu.au).