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Unit description
Equips students with conceptual, methodological and practical knowledge and skills to enable them to design and conduct independent behavioural research. Students will learn how to develop a research question, select an appropriate research design to answer the research question, collect and analyse data, interpret findings and communicate these findings in a written and oral format. Students will gain hands on experience of conducting research using a (quantitative) correlational design.
Unit content
- Generating real-world research ideas through searching and appraising existing literature
- Common research designs and methodologies
- Designing and conducting quantitative research
- Conducting applied research as a scientist-practitioner
- Analysing and interpreting data
- Presenting your findings from research in different formats
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 conceptual, methodological, and analytical principles related to designing and conducting culturally appropriate and ethically sound research |
| 2 | evaluate various research designs, methodologies, and analytical approaches to make informed and culturally sensitive decisions |
| 3 | co-design, conduct, and analyse a methodologically and ethically sound study to answer a real-world research question |
| 4 | appropriately communicate the study and its findings using appropriate conventions |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- identify conceptual, methodological, and analytical principles related to designing and conducting culturally appropriate and ethically sound research
- evaluate various research designs, methodologies, and analytical approaches to make informed and culturally sensitive decisions
- co-design, conduct, and analyse a methodologically and ethically sound study to answer a real-world research question
- appropriately communicate the study and its findings using appropriate conventions
Teaching and assessment
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