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The Thesis Circle Students helping each other with their thesis MWT Kampers LL.M. (TLS)
Content • What is the thesis circle? • Course of the thesis circle • Results of the evaluation of thesis circle 2014 • Advantages for students • Disadvantages for students • Advantages for teachers • Disadvantages for teachers
What is the thesis circle? • Small group of students • Thesis theme • Common goal • Deadlines of the thesis circle are tighter than the general deadlines used in the Thesis trajectory • Combination of group meetings and individual meetings • ‘Rules’ • Two teachers, one of whom acts as a coordinator.
Course of the thesis circle • Group meeting 1: introduction • Group meeting 2: design of the research • Group meeting 3: research question and first chapter • Optional: individual meeting 1 • Group meeting 4: next chapter(s) • Group meeting 5: first draft • Individual meeting 2: first draft
• Individual meetings for planning the defense of the thesis
Results of the evaluation of thesis circle 2014 ‘Writer’s block’ tackled effectively Group pressure valuable Peer feedback valuable Difficult to give useful feedback Difficult to use all the individual meetings Preferably a maximum of 8 participants More information about the thesis circle before the start
Advantages for students • Peer process: you are not alone • Peer pressure • Peer feedback • More meetings • Faster • Other skills than just writing • Opportunity to plan your own meetings
Disadvantages for students • Responsibility for planning your own meetings • More skills in planning commanded • Need to read each others thesis • Necessary to have time available • Difficult to communicate constructive critique • Less individual contact with teacher(s) • Faster
Advantages for teachers • Students review each others work • Time consuming individual meetings are avoided • Time can be planned efficiently • Students finish their thesis faster • Students acquire other skills as well • Students are learning to be pro-active
Disadvantages for teachers • Students need to be pro-active • Quality needs to be safeguarded • Spikes of work pressure • Meetings need to be scheduled to fit multiple schedules • ‘Picking’ of students