Final Review of Progress
The Final Review of Progress is to be completed in the last six months of candidacy. Where the Reviews of Progress are formative assessments and summaries of the student’s development of the Research Degree Graduate Qualities, the Final Review of Progress is the summative statement regarding the student’s achievement of the Qualities. As such, the Final Review of Progress will draw largely on the student’s previous Reviews of Progress.
- The Final Review and the Research Degree Graduate Qualities
- Information and form
- Resources to help you complete the final review
The Final Review and the Research Degree Graduate Qualities
Completing your higher degree by research means not only producing a thesis but becoming a researcher. The Research Degree Graduate Qualities (RDGQs) help you reflect on competencies you have developed whilst doing your candidacy at UniSA. Use the RDGQs to complete the Final Review of Progress in the last six months of your candidacy, either at the time of submitting your thesis for examination; while waiting for the examiners’ reports; or after the reports have been received and before graduation.
The Final Review document will be a valuable resource to convey to prospective employers the qualities transferable to the workplace that have been achieved by a student in completing a research degree at UniSA. Such tangible qualities may include the student’s ability to:
- ‘undertake long and complex research projects
- think laterally and creatively
- sift through large-scale information to find specific and novel solutions
- work harmoniously in a team situation
- work in isolation, tenaciously and with resilience
- communicate effectively about their creative research orally and in writing
- undertake research in an ethical manner
- situate their research within international perspectives.’
Information and form for completion
- Information and instructions for completion (RTF file) - the context and purpose of the final review
- Final review of progress form
(RTF file)
Resources to help you complete the final review
- Resources for Research Degree Graduate Qualities will help you complete the final review by reflecting on resources you have used during your candidacy
- The Final Review of Progress: addressing the core Research Degrees Graduate Qualities component (ppt file, 126kb) guides you through the RDGQs and how you can relate them to your candidacy
- Exemplar (PDF file, 74kb) provides a very comprehensive example of how to complete the Final review of progress form. Of course you will probably not report in such depth in all areas of the RDGQs - this is a guideline only. (©Cassandra Loeser, 2005).