Knowledge Management in Graduate Research

This paper proposes a knowledge creation model for graduate students and introduces a checklist of evaluation of research ability and research environment based on this model. The model is derived from three academic knowledge creation models, which were proposed with reference to a famous organizational knowledge creation model. A questionnaire survey, using the checklist at a graduate school of computer technology, proves the effectiveness of the proposed model and reveals some interesting facts, such as the great differences in the evaluation of research environment between teachers and students and in the self-evaluation of research ability between female students and male students.