Balancing Workload and Thesis Guidance: How Supervisors Provide Effective Feedback to Students

<p>Workload affected the supervisors in giving feedback during thesis supervision and gave the impacts to the students’ process in completing their thesis. This research focused on finding out the strategy to ensure giving feedback during thesis supervision alongside the heavy workload. A case study research design was employed and three supervisors of graduate thesis of English Language Education in one of public universities in Malang, East Java, Indonesia were involved in this research. To collect the data, partially structured interviews were used. The data collected was analyzed systematically. It was found that some strategies were proposed by the participants. The strategies included holding face-to-face meetings, conducting virtual meetings, establishing consultation regulations, sending theses via email, scheduling specific times for providing feedback, and requesting students to provide reminder.</p>