This published study, drawing on the 2007 technical report, shows that there is great disparity among research supervisors in education as to what research methods can be taught. However, there is strong agreement as to the teachability of those components relative to the competencies successful students require. This version is the author's submitted version. The paper was published as:Brown, G. T. L. (2014). What supervisors expect of education masters students before they engage in supervised research: A Delphi study. International Journal of Quantitative Research in Education, 2(1), 69-88. doi: 10.1504/IJQRE.2014.060983