Identifying the advantages and disadvantages of individual and group approaches in supervising doctoral dissertations and comparing it between the departments of humanities, technology and engineering and basic sciences

The purpose of this study is to identify the advantages and disadvantages of individual and group approaches in guiding the doctoral dissertation and compare it between students of the three departments of humanities, engineering and basic sciences of the University of Isfahan. The research approach is a combination of successive exploratory types. In the qualitative section, using semi-structured interviews with 27 managers, deputies and faculty members, data were collected by sampling method. Findings were used to identify the advantages and disadvantages of experts and to build quantitative tools. In the quantitative part, a researcher-made questionnaire was administered among doctoral students in three groups of humanities, technical and engineering and basic sciences by field random sampling method. Qualitative findings showed that in general, experts believe that both approaches have advantages and disadvantages that are used according to the nature of the field and the desired position of each, but according to the scientific situation in today's world, group approaches are more important. Took. The results in the quantitative section showed that students agreed more with the advantages of the group approach and considered its disadvantages far less than the advantages. The results of post hoc tests indicate the differences between the basic and technical sciences and engineering groups with the humanities regarding some of the disadvantages and advantages of the approaches. In the humanities departments, due to the more individual nature of the research, students had little knowledge of group approaches and did not pay much attention to it