Focusing Information Systems Post-Graduate Research Projects

<body> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td align="center"> This page requires frames. <a href="http://dl.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/article/viewPDFInterstitial/378/344">Click here</a> for the non-frames version. <p>Non-frames version <a href="http://dl.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/article/viewPDFInterstitial/378/344">available</a>.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <h1>Focusing Information Systems Post-Graduate Research Projects</h1> <h2><i>Gail Ridley</i></h2> <h3>Australasian Journal of Information Systems</h3> <h4>Abstract</h4> <div>This paper reports on an investigation of mechanisms that assist Information Systems post-graduate research students to focus their projects.<br /> An evaluation is presented of the experiences of Information Systems research students in focussing their research projects based on a survey conducted of students who participated in two of the first three Information Systems doctoral consortia to be held in Australia. The survey sought to determine whether a doctoral consortium or 'systematic expert review' is the most valuable mechanism for focussing a research proposal.<br /> Systematic expert review was considered by the students to be more effective than the doctoral consortium process for the purpose of focussing their research project proposals.</div> </body>