Article Review 4

Ifugao State University
Nayon, Lamut, Ifugao
College of Advance Education
Name: PRINCESS LYNN A. PADUA Score:____________________

Course&Year: PHD-EM Date: 01/23/2024
ARTICLE REVIEW 4
TITLE: Research supervision in distance learning: issues and challenges

1. Research Issue and Purpose- The purpose of this study is to explore and highlight
the issues and challenges teachers face while supervising thesis and projects in
distance/online learning mode.
2. Researcher Pre-understandings- DL improves the access to education for all the
aspiring students. DL overcomes the issues of capacity, infrastructure and faculty. It
provides standardized quality content to all the students without any discrimination. Like
conventional system, DL is also not free from certain shortcomings, for example, burden
of learning is shifted on the learner (though flexibility is there), there is too much
diversity in the same course, more importantly student and teacher are separated by
time and space leading to asynchronous mode.
3. Literature Review- There are various literature used locally and internationally from
2003 up to 2020 to support this study.
4. Theoretical or Conceptual framework- There were no Theoretical and Conceptual
framework on the paper.
5. Participants- 16 research supervisors were the participants of the study.
6. Protection of Human Research Participants- Ethical consideration was considered
as part of protecting the research respondents.
7. Research Design- The research uses a qualitative study and inductive approach has
been used. Philosophical assumption is interpretivism, and grounded theory approach is
used to collect and analyze the data.
8. Data Collection/Generation Methods- This is a cross-sectional qualitative study.
Grounded theory approach using Gioia methodology has been applied. Semi-structured
interviews of 16 research supervisors have been conducted to explore the issues and
challenges faced by the supervisors in guiding research students. Purposive sampling is
used to select the subjects for data collection.
9. Credibility- The generated data was credible in a way that the researchers used
adapted tool to measure the data.
10. Findings, Results - Results of the study reveal that the time constraints, official
restrictions, irregular contacts and technology are the main issues faced by supervisors.
Whereas student–supervisor interaction, diversity, perceptions, virtual communities and
academic collaboration are the biggest challenges for the supervisors in distance
learning. Lastly, it is found that students’ attitude and supervisors’ mindset are the key
success factors in distance research supervision. Findings of this paper will help
institutions particularly in Asia, to strategically review their research programs to make
these programs more effective. Effectiveness will encompass two things, timely
completion and novel research. If these two things are addressed efficiently,
comparison of distance learning with conventional learning will be more favorable for
distance learning.
Research, as one of the most important subject in educational setup faces

various challenges even before the pandemic happens. It is not east to conduct a
research. Now, what more if the mode of learning shifts into distance learning where
technology is the only medium we could use to pursue education.
It is noteworthy that based from the findings of this paper, research supervisors
still did their best to continue the innovativeness through research studies. But we
cannot deny the fact that despite their hardship and perseverance, these prompt
challenges are still the barriers for a research study to be successful.
The recommendations that institutions should facilitate face-to-face interactions
more frequently with the students who are involved in research should be taken into
considerations. Moreover, institutions should invest more in gaining access to online
research databases so that the access to online databases of students is also
enhanced. Moreover, students should be facilitated to participate in research
workshops, conferences and seminars to sharpen their research skills. There is also a
need of specific trainings for the teachers in DL, they are away from their students and
at times they fail to exhibit empathy which may result in communication barriers.

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Ifugao State University

Nayon, Lamut, Ifugao

College of Advance Education

Name: PRINCESS LYNN A. PADUA Score:____________________

TITLE: Research supervision in distance learning: issues and challenges

Research, as one of the most important subject in educational setup faces

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