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Thesis Timeline

Athletic Counseling Thesis Timetable

Note. To graduate in May you have to collect data (Step 11) by December and defend your thesis (Step 13) by Spring Break.

1. 1. Student thinks of research ideas and confers with a faculty member who will become thesis advisor/chair.
2. 2. Student selects an advisor/chair and gets "OK" to work on proposed study. This step is often completed while student is taking the research course.
3. 3. Student writes proposal in Proposal Design (RSCH 612), discussing the project with the advisor/chair.
4. 4. Student submits a copy of the thesis proposal to the advisor/chair and makes revisions as needed until the chair approves proposal.
5. 5. Student consults with the advisor/chair and selects two additional people to serve on the thesis committee. Student gets verbal consent to serve on the committee from the two additional people.
6. 6. Department chair sends a recommendation of a thesis committee to the Graduate Office for approval and formal appointment of thesis committee. The Graduate Office sends notification of the thesis committee to the student, committee members, and the department.
7. 7. Student schedules a proposal meeting. Students give a copy of their thesis to their committee members at least ONE FULL WEEK before the meeting. IT IS THE STUDENT'S JOB TO SCHEDULE THE PROPOSAL MEETING AT A TIME WHEN THE STUDENT AND ALL COMMITTEE MEMBERS CAN MEET. Students should inform the Dean of the meeting and remember to schedule a room for the meeting (Diane can help with this).
8. 8. Student meets with the chair prior to the proposal meeting to clarify what will happen at the meeting.
9. 9. Student defends the thesis proposal. The committee requires the student to make revisions and to plan another meeting or the committee requires the student to make revisions and to show them to the chair.
10. 10. Student gets research approved by Institutional Review Board (IRB). Student submits IRB form, a paragraph describing the purpose of the study, the Method section of the thesis proposal, the informed consent, and all the questionnaires to the IRB care of Dean of the Graduate School.
11. 11. Student submits full thesis proposal to the Dean of the Graduate School for format approval. The Dean reviews the proposal taking up to TWO WEEKS. The Dean usually requires that the proposal be revised and resubmitted. KEEP THE COPY OF THE THESIS WITH COMMENTS FROM THE GRAD OFFICE. THEY WANT YOU TO RESUBMIT IT AT STEP 19.
12. 12. After getting cleared by the IRB, the student demonstrates data collection procedure to the chair and collects the data.
13. 13. Student organizes the data, enters the data into the computer, checks the data, and analyzes the data. Student rewrites the proposal changing it to the past tense, writes the results, and writes the discussion sections of the thesis. Student makes all corrections in format identified by the Graduate Office. The student consults with the chair during this process.
14. 14. When the final version of the thesis is ready, the chair gives the "OK" for the student to schedule a thesis defense meeting. The student first selects a "reader " the fourth committee member. The student gets verbal consent from the reader who is "officially" appointed by Dean of the Graduate School.
15. 15. The student sends a memo (get this from Diane) to the Graduate Office. The memo lists the student's name, the title of the thesis proposal, the members of the committee (including the reader), and the date, time and place of the defense meeting. IT IS THE STUDENT'S JOB TO PLAN THE DEFENSE MEETING FOR A TIME WHEN THE STUDENT AND ALL COMMITTEE MEMBERS CAN MEET. IT MUST BE SCHEDULED AT LEAST ONE WEEK AFTER SENDING THE MEMO AND DISTRIBUTING THESIS TO COMMITTEE MEMBERS. Students schedule a room for the meeting.
16. 16. Student defends the thesis. The committee requires the student to make revisions and to plan another meeting, or the student passes and the committee requires the student to make revisions and show them to the chair. If the student passes, they may ask the committee members to sign the "approval pages" that go in the thesis. These should be printed to the specifications of the graduate office (check this!! ) on bond paper. If the student does not pass, the thesis is revised under the supervision of the chair and Step 13 is repeated.
17. 17. Evaluation forms are sent to the Dean of the Graduate School by the chair.
18. 18. The student's revisions are OKed by the chair and the thesis is sent to the Dean of the Graduate School for approval.
19. 19. The student makes revisions as required by the Dean of the Graduate School and resubmits the thesis. This process is continued until the proposal is 100% perfect. Do not think that you are done if only one or two corrections are found on your "final" version, submit another copy until it is perfect.
20. 20. When the thesis is FINALLY perfect, student prints 3 copies on fancy bond paper. (Waiting to print the final version saves fancy paper and reduces frustration.). NOTE : You will be asked to sign a copyright form. Do NOT agree to have your thesis put on the web. Once it is on the web, it is considered “published” which prevents you from presenting your research or publishing it in a journal. Do NOT submit an electronic version of your thesis.
21. 21. The student gets the thesis bound (and may want to get a copy made for themselves and their chair). The student pays for the binding costs.
22. 22. TA-DAH!! The student graduates, finds a lucrative professional position in athletic counseling, and donates some of their excess funds to the Springfield College Athletic Counseling program!

Checklists

• AASP Certification Checklist.pdf
• AC Checklist.pdf