QUALITY ASSURANCE IN THESIS SUPERVISION: SUPERVISORS IDIOSYNCRACIES AND ETHICAL MALFUNCTION
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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. This is a dissertation desk paper to highlight the qualities expected of a supervisor to ensure quality of supervisees’ projects emanating from the supervisor’s behavior. The supervisee has a lot to do but the emphasis of this paper is on the supervisor. Ethical issues were 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. The paper focused on ethical issues and brought out some offensive abhorred behaviors of supervisors. The effect of supervisors’ behavior towards his supervisee was highlighted. Over ten things that a supervisor should be weary of are explained. The integrity of a supervisor is at stake because both the supervisor and the supervisee share the blame for a shabby research product.