Unit description
Provides students with the opportunity to engage in supervised research in a specific area, thereby gaining experience of the professional role of a researcher in allied health. The unit requires students to explore a range of research designs and methods associated with an identified area of research. This unit is the first in the embedded Allied Health Honours program.
Unit content
- Concepts of clinical research and evidence-based practice
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Sources of knowledge (includes, but is not limited to):
- Tradition and authority
- Logical reasoning – deductive and inductive
- Scientific method
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Research process and types of research
- Research process
- Qualitative and quantitative research
- Research continuum
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Critiquing research
- Qualitative and quantitative
- Application of various research approaches and methods to an identified topic area
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.
Learning outcomes and graduate attributes
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
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| 1 | Compare different research designs, identifying their strengths and weaknesses. | Intellectual rigour | Lifelong learning | Communication and social skills | ||||
| 2 | Review and comment on the impact different research designs have on how research is conducted | Intellectual rigour | Lifelong learning | Communication and social skills | ||||
| 3 | Apply different research designs to an identified topic area | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | Lifelong learning | Communication and social skills | |||
Prescribed texts
Session 1
- Portney, L. G., & Watkins, M. P., 2009, Foundations of clinical research: Applications to practice, 3rd, Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ.
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
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