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About your adviser and your critic

Choosing your adviser and your critic

If you are an MMS 200a student, please note that starting the 2nd trimester of AY 2018-2019, the FICS will be using a system for matching MMS 200a students to a potential adviser. Follow the steps on this page to get matched to your adviser.

Step 1

Go to https://ficsadvising.upou.edu.ph/bams. You should see the screen below:

Step 2

Fill in the fields as indicated, and upload the single PDF file containing all three of your capsule proposals. Make sure that it is clearly indicated which of your proposals is the main one and which two are the backup proposals. ~~Do not submit all three capsule proposals.~~ ~~Keep the other two capsule proposals in your personal archive.~~

Step 3

Indicate your preferred adviser. A list of available advisers will be displayed. Details about potential advisers’ research interests are displayed to help you select the faculty best suited to your interests.

Whenever possible, your first choice for your adviser will be given to you; however, this will not always be the case.

A disabled button means that the adviser cannot accept adviser nominations anymore.

Step 4

Once you have selected your top three choices and submitted the form, the summary of your selection will be displayed. Please note that this list is still subject to the approval of your 1st choice and is thus not yet final.

There will also be an error if you have already registered before or you are not among the students allowed to register during that period. This error will most likely arise from an incorrect student number.

Step 5

It takes between 4 to 9 days to receive receive a final confirmation of your adviser and critic from fics.advisory@upou.edu.ph. Your adviser and critic will also receive this email. Once you receive the email, follow the instructions provided there.

After you have been matched with an adviser, the AdCom system will provide you instructions on what to do next, including contacting your adviser and introducing yourself. It is your responsibility to contact your adviser as soon as possible to see what it is they need from you. For example, your adviser may ask you to refine your project proposal and submit a revised version of it. (You will need to check your adviser to be sure.)

Your relationship with your adviser and with your critic

This section details the roles that your adviser and your critic can play in your MMS 200 project. For additional details not covered here, see the Implementing Guidelines for MMS 200.

For guidance on how your adviser might grade your work for both MMS 200a and MMS 200b, see the section on assessment.

The role of your adviser

Your adviser is your guide throughout your MMS 200 project. They alone will determine them how you will be graded during both MMS 200a and MMS 200b. Each adviser will have their own particular approach to providing you guidance, and you will need to negotiate what your relationship with them will be. There are, however, minimum standards for that relationship. These are reflected in the activities posted in the Google Classroom for MMS 200 students created by the Program Chair and include the following:

Having at least one interaction (over email, via videoconference, over the phone, or face-to-face) to discuss your proposal and your project.
Agreeing how much interaction the two of you will/should have throughout the entire MMS 200 process.
Agreeing on how to deal with any ethical aspects to the conduct of your project. The MMS 200 Course Facilitator has included in the Google Classroom a self-paced ethical research certification course offered by the Government of Canada Panel on Research Ethics as a foundational research ethics training. However, you should further discuss and review with your adviser any ethical implications of your project and how you might address potential ethical issues in your project.
Agreeing on how often you will be given formative feedback and what form that feedback will take.
Agreeing on how how you will be given summative feedback (i.e., how you will be graded) for MMS 200a and MMS 200b, which may include a discussion on marking guides or rubrics.
Agreeing on deadlines. The Google Classroom has a list of suggested deadlines, but you should discuss with your adviser what deadlines they want you to meet.
Agreeing on any other aspect related your adviser-advisee relationship not covered here.

A formative assessment of your project is one that helps you improve your project or your report. A summative assessment, on the other hand, is the final evaluation of your work, and the one that will be used to determine your final numerical grade.

The MMS 200 Course Facilitator or BAMS Program Chair may suggest certain activities for you to follow in the Google Classroom for MMS 200 students, such as requesting you to back up or send them a copy of your proposal or final report. However, these activities are an adjunct to the agreements that you will make with your adviser. See also the FAQs regarding your adviser.

The role of your critic

At the end of the adviser-matching process, you will also be matched to a critic. The critic will typically (but not always) be one of your adviser choices during the AdCom matching process. A critic will be a faculty member who will review your report after you have submitted it for final (summative) evaluation to your adviser. Your adviser will be the one to send your work to your critic for review.

The critic will provide your adviser an outside, summative opinion on the quality of your final output. It is worth emphasizing that your critic is meant to provide a summative--not a formative--opinion, because it means that your MMS 200 critic will be do the following:

Provide an overall, summative opinion of your work. This means, for example, that you are not expected to re-write your report based on critic's feedback.
Withhold interim (formative) feedback. Because your critic will provide a final opinion on your work and is asked not to provide any formative assessment, do not ask your critic any questions regarding your MMS 200 project while you are conducting it nor your report while you are writing it. Only your adviser should provide you formative guidance regarding your project or your final report.
Assess the project based on your own stated goals. If in your final report you say that you wanted to achieve X for your final project but you instead achieved Y, and you did not present a good reason for the mismatch between what you wanted to do and what you actually did, your critic may recommend your adviser to give you an unfavorable grade. For instance, if you say that you wanted to conduct research to find out why people take selfies but instead you actually merely conducted research on how many selfies individuals typically take in a single day, there is a mismatch between your goals, your research question, and your methodology.
Assess the project based on the terms of agreement between you and your adviser. This means, for instance, that if your adviser instructed you to pursue a particular line of inquiry and not another, the critic's role is neither to question nor undermine the direction given by your adviser. Instead, your critic's role would be to evaluate how well you have followed the adviser's instruction, even if they don't necessary agree with your adviser's instruction. This also means that if a certain assessment rubric has been agreed upon between you and your adviser, your critic's role will not be question that rubric, but rather to offer an assessment of your work based on that rubric.