Suka atau Tidak Suka, Rela atau Terpaksa, Indonesia HARUS membuka seluas-luasnya 12 layanan (service) berikut bagi perdagangan global berdasarkan kesepakatan WTO (World Trade Organization):

1. Layanan Bisnis
2. Layanan Konstruksi
3. Layanan Pendidikan
4. Layanan Keuangan
5. Layanan Travel, Pariwisata
6. Layanan Transportasi
7. Layanan Komunikasi
8. Layanan Distribusi
9. Layanan Lingkungan
10. Layanan Kesehatan
11. Layanan Rekreasi, Budaya
12. Layanan Lainnya

TIDAK ADA alasan lagi untuk menyalahkan pemerintah, atau orang lain, dengan kata-kata BELUM SIAP, MENOLAK, dll karena kesepakatan GATS – WTO (General Agreement on Trade in Service – World Trade Organization) telah disepakati oleh pemerintah Indonesia sejak tahun 1994 (24 tahun yang lalu) dan ditetapkan melalui Undang-undang No. 7 Tahun 1994 pada zaman old (Presiden ke-2 RI, Soeharto).

Dua Puluh Empat tahun adalah waktu yang CUKUP untuk menyiapkan diri!

Masuknya perguruan tinggi asing adalah konsekuensi dari keterbukaan global dalam Layanan Pendidikan. Akan ada 11 layanan lainnya yang beroperasi di Indonesia.

Vincent Gaspersz

Stephen Covey ( dalam buku The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, 1989) mengemukakan prinsip-prinsip kebiasaan yang dapat diterapkan di segala aspek kehidupan, termasuk pada kehidupan mahasiswa Pascasarjana. Tabel ini merupakan modifikasi dari tabelnya Covey, First Things First. Semoga bermanfaat

DrOY Postgraduate Guide

Priya Narasimhan
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~priya/ICSOC-PhDSymp-2006-dist.pdf

Tulisan di bawah ini semoga bermanfaat bagi siapa saja yang hendak ujian thesis atau disertasi, berdasarkan pengalaman seorang dosen di Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM).

Two Minutes Viva Presentation

Why Do We Have VIVA Presentation?
The Purpose:
1. To see if (you) have written it.
2. To see if (you) understand what you have written.
3. To see if it is worth of PhD. Contribution
4. To officially welcome you on board. Sounds sweet yea……

Two Minutes Viva Presentation..Haaa?
Don’t get shocked, it is the most important part of viva presentation. You see, when your university sends your thesis to potential examiners, I beg your trust, not all examiners read your thesis, or read but don’t understands, or read just speedily. Beware, some really critically read word by word……Remember, 250-350 pages of thesis require time and energy to read. So let’s say they did read but confused. It means that the death sentence is already delivered in the forms provided to them. There are five outcomes from the examiners when they read your thesis:
1. Accepted as it is NO Corrections
2. Accepted with major Corrections
3. Accepted with minor Corrections
4. Accepted but Re-viva
5. Rejected…

Points to remember:
All five remarks above can be reversed when you present and prove or disprove your case. Even the above remarks let say No 1…can be reversed to major or even to rejection. That’s why they want to hear you first before the death sentence are approved by your university.

How Do You Quash that Death Sentence?
My advice is once you enter the viva room, just imagine, you are the most learned scholar and pretend that your examiners know nothing and you are there to teach them. Remember be humble. So you have a chance, you are the boss, you are the learned, and you have your 2 minutes defense presentation.
Most universities in this country (Malaysia) give you 15-20-30 minutes of viva presentation and the time for questioning is no limit.

How Do You Do your 2 Minutes Presentation?

First Slide…
Put your title on the screen. Just title yea…
Add your published Journals (on the bottom just citation)…Each chapter of your thesis can be an article or conference paper. When examiners see your publications, I am sure they will not play with you. Your publication is the proof that your work is already recognized and documented. Don’t look at your slides connect your eyes to theirs. Start explaining about the following: In Two Minutes. It is the same like news in brief on your TV.

Second Slide:
1. Your Problem
2. Your Objectives
3. Your methodology
4. Your Results
5. Conclusion and contributions…

Now in two minutes, your examiners already know what you are up to, if in case they missed your important points when they read your thesis. I beg your trust, you already passed by 50 present in 2 minutes.

Your Presentation in detail
a) Your Problem Statement
b) Your Objectives and Research Question
c) Your Literature Review
d) Your methodology
e) Your Results
f) Conclusion and contributions…

How Do You Do It?

The Golden Rule…
1. Before you start your real presentation, tell a few lovely words to the examiners to make them relaxed.
2. You Must know your thesis inside out by heart. You Must know which information is on which page, I am not kidding…..oh dear… scary…. No…you can do it….I did Hafal the whole thesis…
3. Make ready on your table and in your laptop a copy of your thesis same pagination with that of your examiners and your supervisor(s)
4. Don’t play fool. Your examiners are experts in your field. So don’t be naughty.
5. Don’t admit anything negative such as sorry I am not prepared…………
6. Don’t take it easy, VIVA can be as friendly as possible and the same time suddenly goes out of hands and becomes nasty. So be prepared…
7. At any point, if you are under stress you can look at your thesis…..Ask for the permission.
8. Concentrate on your Problem and emphasis that it is so grave that needs immediate attention. Cite published references.
9. Concentrate on your Contributions. Very important. What did you bridge?
10. Prove to them with published references that your methodology is sound and used by many other researchers.
11. Simplify your results with graphs and tables and connect it to your hypothesis.
12. Show your conclusion and explain to them that because of your research what researchers did not know before and now they know.

Remark: During your presentation…..
1) Put different colored markers in important places of your thesis so if need arises easy to spot them.
2) Don’t fight for your right. Your examiners are your customers you are selling yourself to them… Remember customers are always right. Never ever argue with them and instead get ready a pen and a paper and right down their suggestions and say thank you to the examiner. You never lose anything in fact you gain a lot.
3) Admit if you are wrong, be patient and must know that in a matter of hours you will be acknowledged as Mr. (Dr.) just like everyone else in the hall, hopefully. So be humble……
4) Last ..Don’t forget your mock viva…with your supervisors and friends before attending your viva.
Good Luck

Dr. Qais Faryadi 2016 (FST- USIM)

Possible viva questions

Overview

1. Summarise your thesis in a sentence.
2. Does the title represent the content?
3. Describe your thesis in brief.
4. How did you decide to order your thesis?
5. What is your overall argument?
6. Summarise the context.
7. Why did you choose this topic?
8. Why is this topic important, and to whom is it relevant?
9. What are the key findings?
10. What is original here; what are your contributions to knowledge?
11. What justifies this thesis as a doctorate?

Literature

1. Where did you draw the line on what you included in your literature review?
2. Where did you draw the line on what you included in the theoretical literature?
3. How did the literature inform your choice of topic and the thesis overall?
4. What three publications would you say have been most influential in your work?
5. Where does your work fit into the literature?
6. Who are the key names in this area?
7. Who are the project’s key influences?
8. How does your work differ from theirs?
9. Do the findings confirm, extend, or challenge any of the literature?
10. How does your work connect to that of your reviewers?

Research Design and Methodology

1. Summarise your research design.
2. Did you think about applying a different design?
3. What are the limitations of this kind of study?
4. Is there anything novel in your method?
5. What problems did you have?
6. How did you develop your research questions?
7. Did the research questions change over the course of the project?
8. How did you translate the research questions into a data collection method?
9. What are the philosophical assumptions in your work?
10. Where are YOU in this study?
11. Describe your sample.
12. How did you recruit your sample?
13. What boundaries did you set on your sample?
14. What are the weaknesses of your sample?
15. What boundaries did you set on your data collection?
16. What are the strengths and weaknesses of your data?
17. What other data would you like (or have liked) to collect?
18. What is the theoretical framework in this study?
19. Why did you choose this conceptual framework?
20. Did you think about using any other theories, and if so, why did you reject them?
21. What ethical procedures did you follow?
22. What ethical issues arose in the course of your study and how did you address them?

Analysis

1. Describe your frame of analysis.
2. How did you construct this framework?
3. What didn’t you include in the framework?
4. What problems did you have in the analysis?
5. Did you combine induction and deduction in your analysis? Can you share some examples?
6. Describe the findings in more detail.
7. Briefly summarise the findings as they relate to each of the research questions.
8. How do you think the theoretical framing was helpful? Can you share some examples?
9. What other data could you have included, and what might it have contributed?
10. Could the findings have been interpreted differently?

Review

1. What are the strengths and weakness of your study?
2. What sense do you have of research being a somewhat untidy, or iterative and constantly shifting process?
3. How confident are you in your findings and conclusions?
4. What the implications of your findings?
5. How has the context changed since you conducted your research?
6. Where do your findings sit in the field in general?
7. How do you see this area developing over the next 5-10 years?
8. Where does your work fit within this?
9. To whom is your work relevant?
10. What haven’t you looked at, and why not?
11. What, if any, of your findings are generalisable?
12. How would you like to follow this project up with further research?
13. What would you publish from this research, and in which journals?

Reflection

1. How did the project change as you went through?
2. How has your view of the area changed as you have progressed through your research?
3. How did your thinking change over the course of the project?
4. How have you changed as a result of undertaking this project?
5. What did you enjoy about your project?
6. What are you proudest of in the thesis?
7. What were the most difficult areas?
8. What surprised you the most?
9. If you started this study again, what would you do differently?

Salma Patel

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Top 40 Potential Viva Questions

1. Can you start by summarising your thesis?
2. Now, can you summarise it in one sentence?
3. What is the idea that binds your thesis together?
4. What motivated and inspired you to carry out this research?
5. What are the main issues and debates in this subject area?
6. Which of these does your research address?
7. Why is the problem you have tackled worth tackling?
8. Who has had the strongest influence in the development of your subject area in theory and practice?
9. Which are the three most important papers that relate to your thesis?
10. What published work is closest to yours? How is your work different?
11. What do you know about the history of [insert something relevant]?
12. How does your work relate to [insert something relevant]?
13. What are the most recent major developments in your area?
14. How did your research questions emerge?
15. What were the crucial research decisions you made?
16. Why did you use this research methodology? What did you gain from it?
17. What were the alternatives to this methodology?
18. What would you have gained by using another approach?
19. How did you deal with the ethical implications of your work?
20. How has your view of your research topic changed?
21. How have you evaluated your work?
22. How do you know that your findings are correct?
23. What are the strongest/weakest parts of your work?
24. What would have improved your work?
25. To what extent do your contributions generalise?
26. Who will be most interested in your work?
27. What is the relevance of your work to other researchers?
28. What is the relevance of your work to practitioners?
29. Which aspects of your work do you intend to publish – and where?
30. Summarise your key findings.
31. Which of these findings are the most interesting to you? Why?
32. How do your findings relate to literature in your field?
33. What are the contributions to knowledge of your thesis?
34. How long-term are these contributions?
35. What are the main achievements of your research?
36. What have you learned from the process of doing your PhD?
37. What advice would you give to a research student entering this area?
38. You propose future research. How would you start this?
39. What would be the difficulties?
40. And, finally… What have you done that merits a PhD?

Rebecca

van Wyk-Research design and methods

Tentang penulisan article untuk international journals. Empat buah TIPS berikut perlu mendapat perhatian tatkala menyiapkan manuscript:

• Apakah ciri manuscript yang berpeluang tinggi untuk diterbitkan di jurnal internasional bereputasi? Pertanyaan ini adalah salah satu FAQ kepada saya. Jawabannya: “Ciri utamanya ada 2 yakni NOVELTY dan HIGH IMPACT.” The state-of-the-art sangat menentukan! Oleh karena itu, manuscript Anda harus menyatakan secara eksplisit kedua ciri utama tsb. Salah satu saja absen, maka manuscript Anda akan sulit mendapat perhatian Editor dan/atau reviewers.
• Apa yang paling sulit dilakukan tatkala menyiapkan article? Pertanyaan ini pun termasuk FAQ kepada saya. Jawabannya: “Pekerjaan yang sangat sulit adalah to convince the Editor and/or reviewers.” Jangan lupa pula, “be polite with the Editor and/or reviewers when responding their comments/enquiries.”
• Untuk menulis article yang baik, gunakanlah Fog’s Index. Apa pula index ini? Ingin tahu? Sila googling saja. Namun, sebaiknya bacalah buku Gordon Dryden & Jeanette Vos berjudul “The Learning Revolution: To change the way the world learns”, 1999.
• Kalau Anda berkeinginan kuat untuk menjadi world class international scientific journal writer, amalkanlah “10K Hours Formula.” Saya memperoleh rumus ini tahun 1972 dari Pembimbing saya di ITB (Alm) Prof. Dr. Achmad Arifin tatkala menyusun tesis Drs. Pada zaman itu, untuk meraih Drs diperlukan 11 semester, S1 (8 semester), & Sarjana Muda (6 semester). 37 tahun kemudian, tahun 2009, saya membeli bestseller book karangan Malcolm Gladwell berjudul “Outliers…” yang terbit 2008. Isi buku itu adalah tentang world class persons; semuanya adalah para pengamal “10K Hours Formula.” Sejak 1972 hingga saat ini, saya mengamalkan rumus ini.

Mari kita kibarkan Bendera Merah-Putih melalui publikasi internasional!

Selamat berkarya,
Maman A. Djauhari (Pensiun dari ITB 2009)

PS: Bacalah kedua buku tsb diatas; pasti berguna tidak hanya untuk menulis international journal articles, namun juga untuk mencetak generasi muda Indonesia berkelas dunia.

Mengapa menggunakan PLS SEM? Ada empat alasan:

1. Non normal data
2. Small sample size
3. Formative measure
4. Focus on prediction

Joseph F. Hair, Marko Sarstedt, Torsten M. Pieper and Christian M. Ringle. The Use of Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling in Strategic Management Research: A Review of Past Practices and Recommendations for Future Applications. Long Range Planning 45 (2012) 320-340.

Preparing For and Surviving Your Viva

Viva merupakan singkatan dari viva voce yang berasal dari bahasa Latin. Artinya adalah “oleh atau bersama dengan suara yang hidup”. Tercatat dalam sejarah bahwa pada tahun 1815 istilah ini dimaknai sebagai ujian yang dilakukan secara lisan.

Rachel L Hardy

Thesis defence checklist

• I know my thesis thoroughly
• I have written a one-page summary of each chapter
• I have continued to work with my thesis after submission or have begun to prepare a conference paper or publication
• I am able to explain how my thesis fits into the big picture
• I have kept up to date with relevant literature
• I know what the implications of my research are to both theory and practice
• I have had a mock viva with my main supervisor
• I have asked my peers to quiz and challenge me about my thesis
• I have explained my thesis to friends and family who are not familiar with it
• I have investigated the backgrounds and publications of my examiners
• I have looked at my institution’s guidelines for vivas
• I have produced a list of likely questions
• I have identified areas of my thesis that are likely to be challenged
• I have marked up my thesis to help me refer to it in the viva
• I know how I will be informed of the outcome of my viva.

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