 Momen ini sesuatu yang seringkali memberi nafas sentimental kepada diri seorang penyelia apabila meraikan kejayaan anak-anak supervisee saban tahun. Alhamdulillah .. dua pelajar PhD dan seorang Doktor Pendidikan Tinggi saya dilahirkan untuk tahun 2021 ini. Sekalung tahniah - Dr Intan Farahana, Dr Ikram dan Dr Marini!!! Seperti yang kelihatan di dalam foto paling atas, ada empat PhDs bersama saya - tambahan seorang lagi adalah Dr Hairul yang sebenarnya telahpun bergraduat tahun yang lepas namun tetap hadir untuk sama-sama meraikan rakan-rakan yang lain dan tentunya untuk ebrgambar bersama-sama :) Thanks Dr Hairul! Ayuh anak-anak yang lain - inshaAllah tahun hadapan kita akan meraikan Izzat, Zali, Syaida, Suzana dan beberapa yang lain inshaAllah ..! Tiada yang mustahil dalam hidup ini jika segalanya didasari oleh kemahuan dan usaha. Selebihnya, doa juga menjadi senjata. Anak-anak - jagalah hubungan baik sesama manusia - all the significant others di sekelilingmu ada saham tersendiri yang bisa membantu kejayaan kita semua. Saya tidak mahu mengingatkan tentang hubungan dengan Yang Maha Khalik, kerana itu tentu sekali kewajipan utama setiap individu. Apapun didoakan semua berada di dalam Rahman dan Rahim-Nya selalu .. barakumullah jami'a .. inshaAllah Gambateh semua!!! xoxo Dr. F
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   Alhamdulillah setelah sekian musim sidang viva terpaksa dijalankan secara dalam talian, akhirnya berkesempatan juga untuk menyaksikan seorang lagi anak PhD saya melalui sesi viva secara bersemuka.
Agak janggal setelah sekian lama berlakunya penyesuaian diri dengan viva dalam talian. Syukur ke hadrat Ilahi di atas kejayaan Izzat melalui sesi ini meskipun memerlukan pembetulan dilakukan. Pembetulan itu satu adat dalam dunia akademia, sepak terajang dalam pengajian PhD lalu apa yang hendak dihairankan dengan adanya pembetulan? Sekalung ucapan terima kasih buat kedua-dua pemeriksa tesis - pemeriksa luar dan dalam yang begitu berdedikasi serta cermat dalam memperihalkan isu serta perkara yang perlu ditambahbaik. Tentulah setiap yang dicadangkan itu perlu diterima dengan hati yang terbuka dan anggap ia satu proses pembelajaran. For those who are still waiting for your viva, what can you do before the date comes? When I was in your position, I studied all possible questions and listed all the answers and justification (together with the page in my thesis that is related to my answers). Believe it or not - during my viva, I wasn't looking at my thesis at all. All I had was the sheets of paper in my hand with all the questions and answers and went through the process with a smooth sailing, alhamdulillah. I was given 3 months to do the correction but all I need was only five days to complete all the amendments. Thanks to my beloved supervisors - Gordon Joyes & Linda Ellison who had given me endless support and strength! Back to the entry - congratulations Dr Izzat for coming thus far! Your svs - Dr Mistima and I are super proud of you! Note: Izzat antara yang paling banyak publications dan memenangi pelbagai pingat dalam pertandingan inovasi! Bravo! Anak-anak PhD lain yang belum sampai ke tahap viva jangan risau ye. Seringkali saya ingatkan bahawa PhD ini bukanlah satu competition dengan orang lain sebaliknya kita perlu bersaing dengan diri sendiri yang merupakan musuh senyap yang boleh menghancurkan jika tidak dilawan. Procrastination akan menjadi temanmu yang paling rapat jika dibiarkan. Saya juga pernah menulis tentang isu ini and how to combat procrastination. Selamat maju jaya semua! xoxo Dr. F  Hati itukan milik kita yang bergelar manusia. Lalu dari hati juga akan terbitnya pelbagai rasa dan interpretasi serta konsepsi. Dalam soal cintan, kata orang dari mata turun ke hati. Sebab itu, bahaya jika kita bermain mata .. silap-silap terpaut pula .. eh ke situ pulak :D
Ok berbalik kepada tajuk saya petang ini. Sebagai seorang penyelidik yang akan menggubah hasil karya penyelidikannya dalam bentuk penulisan (tesis atau disertasi) tentulah anda perlu bijak bukan sahaja dalam mengenalpasti penyataan masalah yang jitu, persoalan kajian dan hipotesis yang munasabah serta 'measurable', corak pengendalian dapatan serta susunan data juga memainkan peranan yang besar dalam mempengaruhi interpretasi pembaca terhadap keseluruhan kualiti penyelidikan yang dijalankan. Tidak dilupakan, aspek paling penting yang saya biasanya akan nilai sewaktu membaca tesis penyelidikan tentulah bab 5 atau dapatan saudara-saudari. Bab 5 ini merupakan bab anda ye. Di sinilah peluang anda menonjolkan keabsahan serta relevannya penyelidikan yang anda telah jalankan. Namun kebanyakan penyelidik kurang memberi penekanan terhadap bab 5 sehingga ada yang hanya menulis sekadar 'mengulang' semula dapatan dalam bab 4. Itu adalah satu kelemahan yang ketara. Apa yang harus anda tonjolkan di dalam bab perbincangan ini? Ini adalah soalan yang agak tricky namun jika anda faham konsep 'keselarian idea' dalam keseluruhan bab, atau dengan erti kata lain, jika anda bijak menggabungjalinkan perbincangan dapatan anda dengan aspek yang anda tonjolkan dalam penyataan masalah, maka anda mungkin dapat memancing hati pembaca. Apakah isu sebenar yang anda tulis di dalam penyataan masalah? Bagaimanakah anda hendak 'adress' kepada masalah tersebut dan bagaimanakah dapatan kajian anda akhirnya dapat dikaitkan semula dengan isu dalam penyataan masalah akan menunjukkan keselarian idea. Jangan lupa, berikan penekanan terhadap kenapa anda menggunakan teori atau model tertentu dalam kajian dan bagaimana penggunaan teori atau model itu telah membantu anda mendapatkan jawapan atau dapatan? Ini juga penting untuk anda fikir dan jelmakan dalam penulisan di bab perbincangan. Hati pembaca ini berpancawarna dan emosi naik turun akan cepat mempengaruhi keputusan penilaian. Penulisan yang bersistematik, konsisten serta sifar ralat (ejaan, formating dll) tentu akan menyejukkan hati pembaca. Pemilihan gaya bahasa juga memainkan peranan penting dalam memberi mood pembacaan yang 'mengenyangkan'. Jadi, hal-hal kecil dan teknikal seharusnya diberesi terlebih awal sebelum anda ready untuk menghantar tesis untuk pembacaan ye. Semoga coretan ringkas ini bisa mendendangkan sedikit halwa buat semua penyelidik di luar sana khususnya yang sedang berkira-kira untuk menghantar tesis yang lengkap .. yeay .. it is just one more step to go! Nota: Gambar di atas baru dirakam petang ini kala saya sedang melengkapkan laporan untuk sebuah tesis yang saya baca. Tesisnya bagus dan memberi mood yang positif buat pembacanya sehinggakan saya merasakan hati saya bagai telah dicuri.. bravo!  Alhamdulillah, another viva voce done for my PhD student. Congratulations, Ikram for passing your viva! My highest gratitude to all examiners - external and internal who had done thorough reading and engaged us in a fruitful and insightful discussion just now. So Ikram, it is time for you to focus on the corrections. Time is really a constraint. Till then, all the best! Sebagai kenangan, gambar semasa mock viva beberapa hari sebelum viva sebenar:    Alhamdulillah seorang lagi pelajar saya telah lulus ujian viva! Kali ini calon bagi program Doktor Pendidikan Tinggi, Pn Marini yang menjalankan kajian bertajuk Pembangunan dan Penilaian Modul VJava bagi Kursus Asas Pengaturcaraan Komputer untuk Pendidikan Tinggi. Pembaca luar adalah PM Dr Zaleha Abdullan (Dr Zac) dari UTM Skudai, manakala pembaca dalam adalah DR Ahmad Zamri Mansor. My heartfelt thanks to both readers and not forgotten PM Dr Hamidah for chairing the session. We conducted a mock viva just a few days before the actual viva. Since Marini is an experienced lecturer, she knows best what and why she does shat she did, so we didn't have any major issues to be addressed. She was given a minor correction (3 months) - which I think very much achievable since she has just retired from her work - so I urged her to make it full swing and submit the correction on time. For those who haven't finished your journey, do not worry! Your time will come. This journey is not an easy one but believe me, if you have courage, passion and determination, I can guarantee that you will finally reach the final destination! Keep it up peeps!! xoxo Dr. F    3 Julai 2020 - berlangsungnya viva voce untuk Hairul, pelajar PhD saya di Telesidang Fakulti Pendidikan. Tarikh sebenar viva beliau telah dikeluarkan lama dahulu namun kerana PKP yang diwartakan, tarikh tersebut terbatal automatis. Penantian yang agak lama sememangnya mengundang resah yang tidak berpenghujung, namun alhamdulillah hari yang ditunggu tiba jua. Tentunya hari viva hari yang penuh emosi bagi semua calon. Selain ia mencatat sejarah tersendiri dalam perjalanan yang panjang dan penuh pancawarna, viva juga merupakan permulaan sebuah perjalanan sebenar. Tahniah saudara Hairul! Semoga momentum untuk pembetulan ini diteruskan secara tekal. Allahul Musta'an ..    Alhamdulillah all praise to Allah The Almighty - the viva for Letchumanan, my PhD student from Computer Education Program went smoothly. The external examiner was Prof Zaidatun from UTM and the internal was Dr Norhafizah.
Although the original date for viva was postponed due to Covid 19, the outcome was satisfactory enough. Manan was given 3 months correction time which means a minor correction. It was a relief once we heard the result. Thanks to Dr Siti, my 'other half', who has given a tremendous support to Manan throughout his PhD endeavour. To my other supervisees, please be positive. Although is it undeniable that a PhD journey might be different from one person to another, the rule is simple - your main competitor is not others but you and you yourself. So have a trust in your own work, and never compare your performance with others. As long as you know what you are doing, follow the trail up to the end. And as a supervisor, I am always here to help and my prayer goes to all of you. Let's celebrate this little good news and take it as a motivation for you to get going :) Congratulations Manan! This entry was previously published in my other blog - few years back. Just happened that today I received a comment from a reader and that the notification was sent to my secondary email. From there, I revisited the blog and after scrolling down the entries, I found this one which I think pretty much shareable. It was my own journey - days before the viva voce. "It’s a sunny bright Thursday and I am back to work after 5 days off. Linda, my [second] doctoral supervisor had finally replied to my email regarding our meeting next week. She will be in Kuala Lumpur for few days and I wanted to see her and do some questions-and-answer session before I really sit for the real viva voce session, which I have no idea of the exact date of this special, utmost important moment in my life – after all these years struggling with thesis writing and its challenges ( I will put all the stories of challenges and issues aside at this moment). There is a lot of preparation to be done prior to meeting her. I had started with re-reading my thesis, the same version as what i had submitted to the post graduate office more than a month ago. It is 494 page and causes me a backache to carry this compiled chapters everywhere I go for reading and revising. Gosh .. as early as in page 10, I have found an error! Apparently, the space between two paragraphs was nearer as compared to the rest of others. In page 97, another error detected. Man! How could this happen? Instead of putting a word ‘quantitative’, I had (carelessly) typed ‘qualitative’! A mistake that I should not have done! I started to jot down the list of errors for my own reference. Overall, there are not less than 15 errors in the final version of my thesis. Am I happy? Definitely not as these errors would affect readers’ assumption towards me. Feeling so sick but yes, life must go on and I need to focus more on meeting with Linda next Monday. For now, I had prepared some points. The most important question to be asked in viva is to explain the origin of our research. Well, this may seem very simple question, but I found myself rambling when I tried to explain to myself! But a useful tip to be able to clearly do this is to focus on what your research is all about; what motivates you to as well as your context that led you to consider particular research questions. Another important thing to bear in mind is the theories that influenced your research. Checked. Sometimes examiners tend to ask things that you did not do in your research. (Very unfair isn’t it!?) … for example, what are the alternative methodology that you might use. This might aim to show that we are aware of other methodology, and to demonstrate our ability to justify our selection of certain methodology. I used to hear many times from other researchers as well as my supervisors about the contribution of the research we conducted. For a doctoral thesis level, this aspect is crucial. In directly, this addresses the gap in the literature. Our research should be able to stand up (but not on its own, surely it should be based on previous research, however it should possess added value to the body of knowledge). A week before I submitted for viva, my first supervisor wanted me to add a small section in the last chapter on my plan for publication. Although it was to me, a bit confusing to have such section in the final chapter, but I followed his suggestion. In that section, I indicated all the papers I had presented in national and international seminar and conferences, posters that I presented in few international conferences, as well as number of articles that I had submitted for journals, and the future planning on the expansion of my research in this area."  'sAssalamualaikum and greetings! Attending a viva voce is not something that all of us been longing for isn't it! We heard many versions of viva session from our seniors or perhaps our own lecturers. From those stories, we know that individuals have different experiences in their viva... and the factors that resulted in the sweetness or bitterness in their stories may vary as well! Alhamdulillah .. today somehow I gained a strength to create another blog which I decided to name it as 'Research Support' as it is meant for providing supports to all my students our there about doing research - no matter in what phase you are in now. InsyaAllah this blog will be operating actively, consistently with Allah's Will .. To start with, let me share with you my viva report (which I accidentally found while searching for something else!): It was somewhere in 2013 but until now, I haven't had a chance to share my experience during my viva voce. InsyaAllah, in the future I will sharing with you the mixed feelings that I faced during that most precious time in my life as a PhD student. Until then, keep reading and please feel free to write your questions regarding the topics to be posted in the next entries. xoxo |
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