A practical guide for novice supervisors of master's thesis

Abstract

The objective of this work in progress is to present and to get feedback from the community on a guide for supervising Master's Thesis. The target audience are the novice supervisors of Master Thesis, who demand a practical guide about how to proceed efficiently when assigning the tasks to the student and when performing his/her own tasks. The proposed guide consists of a set of activities that are easy to implement. The proposed activities are oriented to the development of the Master Thesis itself and the application of a quality assurance process on it. In addition to some modern learning theories, the definition of the activities is supported by a review of the literature, the experience of the authors and a survey performed on supervisors and students. The theoretical basis is implicitly included in the activities so that the application of the modern learning theories is straightforward.