IELTS Research Reports

Gaynor Lloyd-Jones, Charles Neame and Simon Medaney9 Summer Programme Students’ Progress.........................................................................1609.1 Data collection methods........................................................................................1619.1.1 Documentary sources............................................................................................1619.1.2 Examination scripts................................................................................................1619.1.3 Questionnaire for thesis supervisors.....................................................................1629.1.4 Academic progress................................................................................................1629.2 Findings.................................................................................................................1629.2.1 Summer Programme students - language assessment at entry............................1629.2.2 Summer Programme students - Pre-test IELTS....................................................1649.2.3 Summer Programme students - Reports...............................................................1659.2.4 Exam scripts of Summer Programme students.....................................................1679.2.5 Summer Programme students - Workload of thesis supervisors...........................1659.2.6 Summer Programme students - thesis outcomes..................................................16710 Discussion...........................................................................................................................17210.1 Course Directors’ admissions practices and experiences.....................................17210.2 The relationship between Summer Programme students’ entry assessmentsand subsequent linguistic and academic progress................................................17510.3 The consequences of different admission criteria and practices uponpostgraduate students’ academic progress...........................................................17611 Conclusion...........................................................................................................................177Acknowledgements...............................................................................................................177References............................................................................................................................178Appendix 1: Interview Schedule for Course Directors..........................................................180Appendix 2: Focus group guide............................................................................................181Appendix 3: Questionnaire for supervisors of masters theses of SummerProgramme students........................................................................................182Appendix 4: Supervisors’ Responses to Q6 of the questionnaire for supervisorsof Masters theses.............................................................................................183132 www.ielts.org