Supervision book
1
Supervision guide
1.1
Other pages that might be of interest
1.1.1
My research page
1.2
License
2
Introduction to supervision
2.1
The introductory letter - Meeting procedure and formalities
2.1.1
To do list
2.1.2
Roles and responsibilities in the meetings
2.1.3
Rules for the meetings (short and sweet)
2.2
How many meetings?
2.3
Language
3
Guidelines for supervision
3.1
Examinations
3.2
Leave periods (absenteeism)
3.3
Teaching and time pressures
3.4
Rough guide to project structures
3.5
For a journal article size paper these are some rough guidelines:
4
Time planning and limitations
4.1
Reverse time-planning
5
Guide for report writing
5.1
Structuring your report
5.2
General recommendations
5.3
Define your golden thread (rød tråd)
5.4
Create signposts
5.5
Use precise and professional language
5.6
Make convincing claims
5.7
Filling the pages is not the goal
5.8
Don’t try to save the world
5.9
Reading & revising is just as important as writing
6
Data sources for project inspiration
6.1
Economic time-series databases
6.2
Income and income inequality databases
6.3
Datasets available via CALDISS
6.4
AAU based databases
6.5
Diverse datasets
6.6
Danish data
7
Digital tools
7.1
Tools that can help with brainstorming and project management
7.2
Tools that can help with content creation for questionnaires / interactive quizzes
7.3
Communication tools for collaboration
7.4
Additional learning tools for self-learning or training
7.5
Tools for facilitatiing classes
8
Alternative platforms for writing projects
8.1
Overleaf (LaTeX)
8.2
RMarkdown
8.3
MS Word via MS Teams
9
Rough guide to writing a problem statement
9.1
Step 1: Brainstorm / ideation
9.1.1
Courses in Econometrics at AAU
9.2
Step 2: Getting that problem statement clear
9.3
Using the introduction as the route to the problem statement
9.3.1
Example flow of a good introduction
9.4
Some general notes about writing a problem statement
9.4.1
Where do you find a problem in macroeconomics?
9.4.2
Answering the Why?
9.4.3
What?
9.4.4
When?
9.4.5
Where?
9.4.6
Who?
9.4.7
In what way?
9.4.8
How?
10
Presentations
10.1
First and foremost: Check the learning and knowledge objectives for the project!
10.2
So what is the purpose of the presentation?
10.3
Something old or something new?
10.4
It’s about communicating value
10.5
What not to do
10.6
What is of value in academia?
11
Reference and bibliography management
11.1
Videos of reference software
12
Literature searching
12.1
Free search options
12.2
Paid search options
12.3
Literature search videos
13
Appendix: Literature search construction
13.1
Project title
13.2
Description of subject
13.3
Problem statement for project
13.4
Search criteria development – summary
13.5
Search criteria development
13.5.1
Step 01: List all concepts
13.5.2
Step 02: Group words into “Blocks” of concepts
13.5.3
Step 03: Check for any synonyms (and use MS Word to check for spelling errors)
13.5.4
Step 04: Add Boolean operators
13.5.5
Step 05: Prioritise blocks according to subject
13.5.6
Step 06: Perform search block by block
13.5.7
Step 07: Combine search blocks
13.5.8
Step 08: Document search results and limitations
13.5.9
Step 09: Compare results and refine search parameters
13.6
Summary
14
Data retrieval and plotting
14.1
Example data sourcing and manipulation
14.1.1
Loading the required packages
14.1.2
Collecting the data from the Danmarks Statistik API
14.1.3
Adding some extra plotting options
14.1.4
Plotting the data
14.1.5
Density plots using ggplot2
14.2
Example table
14.3
Interactive html plots with Plotly
References
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A supervision guide for student projects at AAU
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Digital tools
There are a heap of tools available:
7.1
Tools that can help with brainstorming and project management
Trello
Padlet
Notion
Prezi
Wonder
Mural
7.2
Tools that can help with content creation for questionnaires / interactive quizzes
Mentimeter
Peergrade
MS Forms (
Integration of Forms with Teams and OneDrive
)
Fyrebox
Coogle
Kahoot
7.3
Communication tools for collaboration
OSX apple screen sharing (with control option)
OSX Facetime
Slack
MS Teams
Facebook messenger (A Facebook company)
Disqord
Skype / Skype for business
WhatsApp (A Facebook company)
7.4
Additional learning tools for self-learning or training
DataCamp
Khan Academy
Udemy
Coursera
Edx
Google Analytics Academy
Microsoft Learn - For Power BI
7.5
Tools for facilitatiing classes
classroomscreen.com