ED5290 - Education Research Methods

Credit points:	06
Year:	2011
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	School of Education

Available to Postgraduate Certificate of Education and Master of Education students.

This subject reviews a range of key educational research approaches and designs, and develops skills in the use of data gathering and analytical methods. Students critically review approaches to research in education and related theoretical and methodological issues. They understand key concepts from a range of research designs and approaches, and develop skills in related research techniques of data gathering and analysis through the completion of a small scale research exercise. Ethical issues, critically reflexive perspectives and the politics of research are also considered.

Learning Outcomes

• critically review issues relating to key educational research designs and methods;
• develop a position on important ethical and political issues in educational research;
• develop skills in using research techniques chosen from a range of research methods;
• complete a small scale research exercise on an educational problem.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to appraise information critically;
• The ability to use independent judgment to synthesise information to make intellectual and/or creative advances;
• The ability to conceptualise problems;
• The ability to conceptualise and evaluate a range of potential solutions to relevant problems;
• The ability to communicate the methodology, results and implications of their research in a manner appropriate to different purposes and audiences.

Inadmissible Subject Combinations:

ED5190

Availabilities
External, Study Period 1
Census Date 24-Mar-2011
Coordinator:	Assoc. Professor Melissa Vick, Dr Jo Balatti
Lecturers:	Assoc. Professor Melissa Vick, Dr Jo Balatti.
Contact hours:	80 hours
Method of Delivery:	WWW - LearnJCU and Printed materials
Assessment:	on-line presentations (15%); essays (40%); assignments (45%).

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