QUALITY ASSURANCE IN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION STUDIES THESIS AND DISSERTATION SUPERVISION
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UNEGBU Vincent
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Abstract
Quality assurance, as a means to ensure that expected results are achieved, is a series of checks and balances put in place to ensure that quality is maintained in the proposed area of interest. In thesis or dissertation research supervision, a lot of checks are to be put in place to ensure that rules are obeyed from both the supervisor and the supervisee. Chapter by chapter presentation of thesis is explained with emphasis on quality assurance.
This is a dissertation desk paper to highlight the qualities expected of a supervisor to ensure quality of supervisees’ projects. The supervisee has a lot to do but the emphasis of this paper is on the supervisor. Ethical issues will be presented to expose some of the idiosyncrasies supervisors exhibit. Idiosyncrasy has to do with people's temperament or peculiarity of personal constitution; person's characteristics.
This is an expository report from supervisees' point of view. It is not an experimental research where data is collected and analyzed. It does not call for concrete examples so as not to offend anyone. The paper diverted a bit to ethical issues to focus on some offensive abhorred behaviors of supervisors. The effect of supervisor’s behavior towards his supervisee was highlighted. The integrity of a supervisor is at stake because both the supervisor and the supervisee share the blame for a shabby research product.