Pre- and post-intervention survey of doctoral students in a capstone unit on writing a research article in English
Year: 2026
Type: dataset
Abstract: This dataset accompanies a pilot study of doctoral students who completed the unit “Writing a Research Publication in English” of a compulsory course at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Ukraine) in the second semester of 2025/2026. The unit was delivered as a capstone project that combined writing workshops, peer review following the critical friends protocol and the drafting of a full research article based on each student’s dissertation research. The Excel file contains anonymised responses to a bilingual (Ukrainian-English) questionnaire administered at the start of the unit (n = 5) and after the capstone project (n = 3) in a cohort of six doctoral students. Sheet “Closed_items” includes six five-point scales (structural and genre self-efficacy; linguistic resources of the research text; oral research communication; value and motivational attitudes; self-regulation and resilience in writing; academic writing practices), perceived importance and difficulty rankings of unit topics, expectations and perceived outcomes, and ways of improving academic writing. Sheet “Open_responses” contains 53 verbatim responses to open-ended questions. Sheet “Codebook” documents all variables, item wording in Ukrainian and English, response scales and reverse-coded items.
Author: Holovatenko, Tetiana
Institution: V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7223003129