Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| SCU Online | Term4 | Term4 |
Unit description
Provides students with the opportunity to broaden and deepen their understanding of literature analysis and research design in relation to an area relevant to their professional practice. Students will produce a critical literature review that supports the need for either future research or practice improvement.
Unit content
- Using literature to refine problems and propose further research or practice improvement
- Searching literature systematically
- Analysing, refining and managing search results
- Presenting results
- Critique and discussion
- Providing rationale and justification for the next step
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 | develop a research question and problem statement to guide critical examination of an area of interest, located within health, social, and community care setting |
| 2 | discern between, and critique, the evidence supporting further research and practice improvement in health, social, and community services |
| 3 | analyse, refine and manage results of a systematic literature search |
| 4 | provide an evidence-based rationale for further research or practice improvement in health, social and community services |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- develop a research question and problem statement to guide critical examination of an area of interest, located within health, social, and community care setting
- discern between, and critique, the evidence supporting further research and practice improvement in health, social, and community services
- analyse, refine and manage results of a systematic literature search
- provide an evidence-based rationale for further research or practice improvement in health, social and community services
Prescribed Learning Resources
- No prescribed texts.
- No prescribed resources/equipment.
- Prescribed text information is not currently available.
- Prescribed resources/equipment information is not currently available.
Teaching and assessment
| Teaching method |
| Structured online learning (6 weeks) |
| Assessment | |
| Discussion board | 10% |
| Report on Research Method | 30% |
| Critical Literature Review | 60% |
Fee information
Domestic
Commonwealth Supported courses
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Fee paying courses
For postgraduate or undergraduate full fee paying courses please check Domestic Postgraduate Fees OR Domestic Undergraduate Fees
International
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