Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| Gold Coast | Term3 | Term3 |
| Online | Term3 | Term3 |
Unit description
Explores a range of research questions, literature, approaches, designs, and methods that are useful for practicing teachers and relevant to a contemporary research problem in education. Students develop conceptual and theoretical frameworks, and learn key research skills through the analysis, synthesis and evaluation of literature and present their findings in a format suitable for a professional audience.
Unit content
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 | locate and critique literature in education |
| 2 | identify and relate problems, theories and paradigms in education |
| 3 | formulate and write a review of literature and a research approach for a problem in educational practice |
| 4 | demonstrate organisational referencing and citation skills appropriate to support the depth and breadth of research writing required for the unit |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- locate and critique literature in education
- identify and relate problems, theories and paradigms in education
- formulate and write a review of literature and a research approach for a problem in educational practice
- demonstrate organisational referencing and citation skills appropriate to support the depth and breadth of research writing required for the unit
Prescribed Learning Resources
- No prescribed texts.
- No prescribed resources/equipment.
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
Domestic
Commonwealth Supported courses
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Fee paying courses
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International
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