SORTI PUBLICATIONS

Research into PhD Examination 2007

SORTI members who publish in this area: Sid Bourke, Alyson Holbrook, Kathryn Holmes, Terry Lovat, Hedy Fairbairn, Melissa Monfries, Elena Prieto, Jill Scevak, Rob Cantwell, Jennifer StGeorge, Ann Graham

2007

Bourke, S.,Holbrook, A., & Lovat, T. (2007a). Examiners and examination outcomes. In C. Denholm & T. Evans (Eds.), Supervising Doctorates Downunder: Keys to Effective Supervision in Australia and New Zealand (pp. 234 - 242). Melbourne: ACER Press.

Bourke, S., Holbrook, A., & Lovat, T. (2007b). Quality indicators for PhD theses in Engineering. Presentation at the 12th Biennial Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction(EARLI): Developing Potentials for Learning, Budapest, 28 August – 1 September. Full Presentation

Bourke, S., Holbrook, A., & Lovat, T. (2007c). Relationships of PhD candidate, candidature and examination characteristics with thesis outcomes. Paper presented as part of a symposium: Looking behind the Doctorate, Proceedings of the 2006 Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, Adelaide, 27 – 30 November. Full Paper

Holbrook, A.(2007). Dalliance or intimate relationship: Evidence of what contributes to successful use of the literature in a doctorate. Keynote address presented at the Postgraduate Supervision – State of the Art and the Artists - Conference, Stellenbosch, South Africa, April 23 – 26.

Holbrook, A., (2007). Levels of success in the use of the literature in a doctorate,South African Journal of Higher Education, 21 (8), 1020-1041. (Tier C)

Holbrook A., & Bourke, S. (2007). ARC DG Project 2008 -2010: Assessing the quality of research theses using examiner reports. Paper presented at the Deans and Directors of Graduate Studies (DDoGS) Meeting, Auckland, 5 - 6 November.

Holbrook, A., & Bourke, S. (2007). Doctoral examiner ego and assessment etiquette. Presentation at the12th Biennial Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI): Developing Potentials for Learning, Budapest, 28 August – 1 September. Full Presentation

Holbrook. A., Bourke, S., & Fairbairn, H. (2007). Do examiners differ across major disciplines in inviting or requiring corrections to a PhD thesis? Paper presented as part of a symposium "Looking behind the Doctorate": Proceedings of the 2006 Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, Adelaide, 27 - 30 November.

Holbrook, A., Bourke, S., Fairbairn, H., & Lovat, T. (2007). Examiner comment on the literature review in PhD theses. Studies in Higher Education, 32(3), 337 - 356. (Tier A*)

Holbrook. A., Bourke, S., Lovat, T., & Fairbairn, H. (2007). Sources of  disagreement in PhD thesis examination. Paper presented at the 2007 AERA Annual Meeting” The World of Educational Quality”, Chicago, 9 – 13 April.

Monfries, M., & Lovat, T. (2007). Gender, power and PhD examination in Australia. Paper presented as part of a symposium "Looking behind the Doctorate": Proceedings of the 2006 Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, Adelaide, 27 - 30 November. Full paper

Scevak, J., Cantwell, C., Bourke, S., & Reid, A. (2007). A metacognitive profile of doctoral students. Paper presented at the EARLI 12th Biennial Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction: Developing Potentials for Learning, Budapest, Hungary, 28 August 28 – 1 September.