ED5094 - Dissertation Part 1 of 2

Credit points:	03
Year:	2012
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	School of Education

Available to Master of Education students and Graduate Certificate of Research Methods students.

Development of a proposal for a small scale research project involving gathering data, or a critical review and synthesis of literature, relating to an approved education topic. The proposal should be approximately 3,000 words; it should clearly define a topic, provide a rationale, set the proposed research in context of appropriate literature, outline methods for generating, gathering and/or analysing research data and discuss methodological issues associated with those methods, and should be accompanied by relelvant applications for approval to conduct the research.

Learning Outcomes

• knowledge of an approved topic for research;
• capacity to frame a topic, issue or questions for research;
• capacity to identify appropriate methods for investigating the topic, issue or research questions and understanding of issues associated with the use of those methods to investigate the topic, issue or questions.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to appraise information critically;
• The ability to place their research in a broader (preferably international)theoretical, practical and policy context.;
• The ability to conceptualise problems;
• The ability to conceptualise and evaluate a range of potential solutions to relevant problems.

Prerequisites:

ED5190 MUST BE COMPLETED PRIOR TO OR CONCURRENTLY WITH ED5094

Availabilities
External, Study Period 1
Census Date 22-Mar-2012
Coordinator:	Dr Kathryn Meldrum
Assessment:	research proposal (60%); ethics application(s) or equivalent to be negotiated with gcrm coordinator and research advisor (40%).
Restrictions:	Enrolment in this offering is restricted.
External, Study Period 2
Census Date 23-Aug-2012
Coordinator:	Dr Kathryn Meldrum
Assessment:	research proposal (60%); ethics application(s) or equivalent to be negotiated with gcrm coordinator and research advisor (40%).
Restrictions:	Enrolment in this offering is restricted.
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 22-Mar-2012
Coordinator:	Dr Kathryn Meldrum
Assessment:	research proposal (60%); ethics application(s) or equivalent to be negotiated with gcrm coordinator and research advisor (40%).
Restrictions:	Enrolment in this offering is restricted.
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 23-Aug-2012
Coordinator:	Dr Kathryn Meldrum
Assessment:	research proposal (60%); ethics application(s) or equivalent to be negotiated with gcrm coordinator and research advisor (40%).
Restrictions:	Enrolment in this offering is restricted.
Cairns, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 22-Mar-2012
Coordinator:	Dr Kathryn Meldrum
Assessment:	research proposal (60%); ethics application(s) or equivalent to be negotiated with gcrm coordinator and research advisor (40%).
Restrictions:	Enrolment in this offering is restricted.
Cairns, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 23-Aug-2012
Coordinator:	Dr Kathryn Meldrum
Assessment:	research proposal (60%); ethics application(s) or equivalent to be negotiated with gcrm coordinator and research advisor (40%).
Restrictions:	Enrolment in this offering is restricted.
JCU Singapore, Limited, Study Period 52
Census Date 09-Aug-2012
Face to face teaching (to be advised by JCUS coordinator)
Coordinator:	Dr Kathryn Meldrum
Lecturer:	Professor Stephen Naylor.
Assessment:	research proposal (60%); ethics application(s) or equivalent to be negotiated with gcrm coordinator and research advisor (40%).
Restrictions:	Enrolment in this offering is restricted.

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