Today's design research problems are different from the past; they are more complex and call for inter- and multidisciplinary work. Design faculty and doctoral students are hindered in this work by the curricular content and pedagogy of the terminal master's degree. Students graduate from professional MFA design programs often unprepared to pose truly researchable questions, recognize multiple research paradigms and their corresponding standards, structure methodologically rigorous investigations or even author papers longer than a few pages. These shortfalls persist in the scholarly pursuits of many design faculty and extend to the institutional adoption of alternate evaluation criteria from the research thresholds in other fields. Strengthening of the quality in doctoral research and supervision, therefore, depends to some extent on rethinking master's study in design.

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正视 MFA 为博士研究做准备的局限性

今天的设计研究问题与过去不同；它们更加复杂，需要跨学科和多学科的工作。设计教师和博士生在这项工作中受到终端硕士学位的课程内容和教学法的阻碍。从专业的 MFA 设计课程毕业的学生往往没有准备好提出真正可研究的问题，认识多种研究范式及其相应的标准，构建方法论上严格的调查，甚至是超过几页的作者论文。这些不足一直存在于许多设计学院的学术追求中，并扩展到机构采用其他领域研究门槛的替代评估标准。因此，加强博士研究和监督的质量，