Student capabilities

The capability matrix shows what normally can be expected from students in their 1st, 3rd, and 5th years as students. It is provided to give the inspiration to match expectations between students and supervisors.

1st year students

Research question
Student’s role

Formulate ideas that can develop into problem formulation and project design based on supervisor feedback.

Supervisor’s role

Students have seldom experiences with the importance and the status of the research statement. Help students to develop their own problem and intensively and repeatedly discuss the formulation.

Use of supervision
Process management
Group management process

3rd year students

Research question
Students role

Independently connect project ideas with relevant concepts and theories.

Supervisors role

In the introduction phase: discuss the students’ ideas and the needed limitations of the whole project. During the work now and then ask the students if they find it necessary to change it.

Use of supervision
Competencies
Process management

5th year students

Research question
Students role

Independently encircle and formulate drafts for research questions containing relevant concepts and theories.

Supervisors role

In the introduction phase: Discus the students ideas, drafts, final formulations and needed limitations of the whole project. During the work now and then ask the students if they find it necessary to change.

Use of supervision
Process management
Group management process

The capability matrix is constructed by Christian Frankel, Thomas Rousing, Sof Thrane and Jens Tofteskov