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Unit description
Encourages students to value career-long professional learning and provides an opportunity for students to investigate a classroom, school or community-based educational problem or issue of their own choosing and to present the findings in a format suitable for professional dissemination.
Unit content
- The role of professional and research literature and professional groups in supporting ongoing professional learning (including professional organisations, conferences, websites, journals and magazines)
- Planning for your investigation
- Conducting your investigation
- Presenting findings from your investigation.
The topic of the project will be determined through negotiation between the student and the unit assessor or his/her nominee.
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | identify ways in which new knowledge, ideas and experiences are disseminated within professional educational communities and the importance of career-long professional learning |
| 2 | formulate a researchable issue or problem of their own choosing for further investigation |
| 3 | assess the ethical issues involved in researching with children and conform to ethical principles, protocols and requirements when conducting investigations within educational contexts |
| 4 | choose from the methodologies outlined an appropriate approach to investigate the issue, including (where relevant) implementing and evaluating an educational intervention |
| 5 | gather and present appropriate data to support the investigation and (where relevant) to evaluate outcomes arising from an intervention and recommend follow-up strategies |
| 6 | present the findings of the investigation in a format suitable for professional dissemination. |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- identify ways in which new knowledge, ideas and experiences are disseminated within professional educational communities and the importance of career-long professional learning
- formulate a researchable issue or problem of their own choosing for further investigation
- assess the ethical issues involved in researching with children and conform to ethical principles, protocols and requirements when conducting investigations within educational contexts
- choose from the methodologies outlined an appropriate approach to investigate the issue, including (where relevant) implementing and evaluating an educational intervention
- gather and present appropriate data to support the investigation and (where relevant) to evaluate outcomes arising from an intervention and recommend follow-up strategies
- present the findings of the investigation in a format suitable for professional dissemination.
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
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