Supervisors Induction Meeting
29/05/2024
Agenda
- General Information
- Timeline
- Supervision General Tips
- Assessment
- Reference Documents
- Q&A
Projects have been allocated and communicated in May 2024
- Allocation shared with students on Minerva.
- Allocation shared with Supervisors on Teams/ via e-mail
(Teams- School of Mathematics -> Channel MATH5871 and MATH5872 -> files -> 202324 )
What happens next?
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Students were advised to be in contact with the supervisors to introduce themselves (tomorrow they will be advised again!).
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If they have not done so by mid-next week, please email them them to start arrangements.
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If students are unresponsive, please email me promptly.
Supervision: General Info
- Dissertation work starts in early June, after students' last exam.
- Student to contact supervisor(s) before June to arrange an informal meeting (not included in the official supervision meeting hours).
- Student and supervisor(s) should arrange 6 hours of meetings (modalities to be agreed) - do this as soon as possible.
- Consecutive meetings should not be more than 2 weeks apart (with flexibility)
- Supervisor should monitor students progress.
- Students are expected to be on campus during their dissertation work (see Useful Contacts SES/VISA)
Supervision: General Info
- First 3-4 meetings in a group (if applicable)
- At least 3 meetings before mid July
- Dissertation drafted by mid August
- Not proof read but general sanity check
Group meetings
meetings can be 1-2-1 or group meetings if many students have been assigned your project.
- Group meetings are efficient and encourage students to share and discuss. It usually speeds up the progress and creates healthy competition dynamic.
- Make sure the students have individual final output (eg. by focussing on specific aspects of the topic).
- Usually 3- 4 groups meeting and 2-3 final individual ones to address specific issues (this works well, flexible).
Dissertation feedback before submission
- If students provides the supervisor with a draft of the dissertation at least 3 weeks before the deadline (and anyway within your agreed timeline), the should receive your general feedback (not line by line) before their final submission.
- The expectation is that they only receive feedback on the dissertation draft once.
Good Practice
You could suggest to:
- Share a short report with supervisor(s) ~2 days ahead of every meeting so that you can comment on their progress and give guidance more effectively.
- Practice on using latex with the provided template on Minerva. A very good online tool is overleaf.
- Create a project on GitHub to share with your supervisor(s). (ABC for a Data Scientist!).
- Learn how to use GitHub. Very good tutorials here: Atalassian and Software Carpentries.
DSA Timeline & details
- There will be a poster session to assess the ongoing students work
- The poster session will take place between Wed 10th and Tue 16th July 2024 (Only assessors need to attend, not supervisors).
- All students must be available on campus throughout this period.
- Deadline for submission of completed dissertations is 3.59 pm of Monday, 2nd September, 2024 (British Summer Time)
Sta./Appl.Fin. Timeline & details
- Deadline for submission of completed dissertations is 3.59 pm of Wednesday, 28th August, 2024 (British Summer Time)
- The oral examinations and presentations will be held in the period from Monday 9th to Monday 16th of September 2024 (Supervisors and assessors to attend).
- Arrangements are flexible and to be agreed promptly with assessor and supervisors (more details in the handbook)
Assessment
Poster Session MATH5872 (DSA)
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Mixed sessions of ~ 2h with a variety of topics
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5 min individual poster presentation + up to 10 min Q&A per student ( about 2 hours per session)
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Each student asks a question and gives feedback to their group posters
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Lead Assessor + Second Assessor
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Sessions allocated by the project manager
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Assessors mark independently
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At the end of the session, the Second Assessor will send their marks and comments to the Lead Assessor.
Poster Session MATH5872 (DSA)
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The Lead Assessor will (deadline 7 days after the session):
- create merged feedback and marking files for each examined student
- upload the marking forms to a shared folder
- email individual feedback forms to the students (no marks are revealed)
- upload to the Minerva MATH5872 module page the total short talk score (one number)
Poster MATH5872 (DSA)- Marking Scheme - 10% of the final overall dissertation mark
| Understanding (30%) | The student . . . gives clear exaplanations; shows depth of understanding; copes well with questions. |
| Content (20%) - Technical Content or conclusion of data analysis | The material . . .is at a suitable level; is neither too much nor too little for the time available;is well explained and / or illustrated by example. Current progress and future plan clear. |
| Poster (30%) | The poster. . .is not overcrowded; emphasise key points (colour, fonts); is well structured (eg overlays);is graphically well presented (eg layout, figures);include few errors; |
| Timing (20%) | The explaination took X minutes (Target: 5 minutes) |
| Language (markers are satisfied the poster meets the threshold for written English) | pass/fail |
| Overall (out of 10) |
Dissertation Assessment DSA
MATH5872 (DSA) Form
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weight |
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Understanding |
30% |
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Achievement |
20% |
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Initiative |
20% |
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Report |
20%
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any discrepancy between supervision progress and final manuscript?
Dissertation Stat./App. Fin.
any discrepancy between supervision progress and final manuscript?
MATH5871 Form
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weight |
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Understanding |
30% |
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Achievement |
20% |
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Initiative |
20% |
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Report Presentation skills |
20% 10%
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Handbooks
On Minerva MATH5871/2 Module page,
under Learning resources: preparing for your dissertation.
Useful Contacts
Student Visa Advice:
studentvisaadvice@leeds.ac.uk
Maths Students Support Team: mathsstudentsupport@leeds.ac.uk
Any Questions?
Supervisors Induction Meeting
By Luisa Cutillo
