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Graduate Students, Postgraduate Studies and Thesis Defense: Success/Failure Factors

Authors
Nadezhda Bagdasaryan, Tatyana Balueva, Olga Krupa
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Nadezhda Bagdasaryan
Available Online October 2019.
DOI
10.2991/cesses-19.2019.5How to use a DOI?
Keywords
post graduate school; post graduate students; postgraduate students typology; thesis defense; cluster analysis; factor analysis
Abstract

In this paper, the authors attempted to answer the question about the reasons for the unsatisfactory state of learning outcomes in graduate school. A multidimensional typology of graduate students was carried out (using the example of Dubna State University) using cluster analysis with preliminary factor analysis. The authors identified the key latent factors: interaction with the supervisor, sociocultural potential, organization of work on the thesis, career opportunities underlying the cluster model. Inside the graduate community, there are four internally homogeneous clusters: "Depressed", "Resource", "Disappointed", and "Random". It is shown that the most promising from the point of view of scientific "growth" and the defense of the thesis are graduate students of the second group — "resource". At the same time, the strongest motivational factors that act as a guarantor of the successful completion of postgraduate studies and defending a thesis are still the established interaction with the supervisor and interest in the research topic — the traditional "values" of any graduate student.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Ecological Studies (CESSES 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
October 2019
ISBN
10.2991/cesses-19.2019.5
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/cesses-19.2019.5How to use a DOI?
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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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