Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| Coffs Harbour | ||
| Gold Coast |
Unit description
Provides students with the opportunity to obtain experience in designing and implementing empirical research, under supervision, in a specialised field of psychology. The unit will culminate in a conference presentation and a written research report
Unit content
- Designing and implementing a research project
- Appropriate analysis and reporting of empirical data
- Reporting research findings as a conference presentation
- Writing a research report in the style of a journal article
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: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect and analyse valid, reliable data | Intellectual rigour | Ethical practice | |||||
| 2 | communicate research findings at a conference to a professionally acceptable standard | Intellectual rigour | Ethical practice | Communication and social skills | ||||
| 3 | produce an empirically-based research report | Intellectual rigour | Ethical practice | Communication and social skills | ||||
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- collect and analyse valid, reliable data
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA3: Ethical practice
- communicate research findings at a conference to a professionally acceptable standard
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- produce an empirically-based research report
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA6: Communication and social skills
Prescribed texts
- Prescribed text information is not currently available.
Teaching and assessment
| Teaching method |
| Lecture online 1hr (11wks) |
| Tutorial online 10hrs (Across the session) |
| Workshop on-site 1hr (11wks) |
| Assessment | |
| Conference Presentation | SR |
| Research Report | 100% |
| Teaching method |
| Lecture online 1hr (11wks) |
| Tutorial online 10hrs (Across the session) |
| Workshop on-site 1hr (11wks) |
| Assessment | |
| Conference Presentation | SR |
| Research Report | 100% |
Fee information
Domestic
Commonwealth Supported courses
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International
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