ED5095 - Research Dissertation

Credit points:	06
Year:	2013
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	School of Education

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

Implement the proposal for a small scale research project developed in ED5094. The research should be conducted and written up independently, with guidance and advice from the supervisor. The dissertation should be approximately 10-12,000 words. It should clearly define a topic, provide a rationale, set the proposed research in context of appropriate literature, describe methods for generating, gathering and/or analysing research data and discuss methodological issues associated with those methods. It should present the data generated as part of the research project, and a discussion of that data, in an appropriate format. It should draw conclusions and implications from the research (including as appropriate, implications for theory, practice and further research), relate findings and conclusions to relevant literature, and offer a critical estimate of the significance and limitations of the research.

Learning Outcomes

• a working knowledge of appropriate reserach methods;
• an ability to identify different reserach traditions and relate specific research (including your dissertation) to them;
• a capacity to generate and anlayse data in relation to a topic, issue or questions for research;
• a capacity to write up results of research in an extended research paper.

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

Prerequisites:

ED5094 AND ALLOW CONCURRENT WITH ED5094

Availabilities
External, Study Period 1
Census Date 28-Mar-2013
Coord/Lect:	Assoc. Professor Hilary Whitehouse.
Assessment:	10,000 to 12,000 word dissertation.
Restrictions:	Enrolment in this offering is restricted.
External, Study Period 2
Census Date 29-Aug-2013
Coord/Lect:	Assoc. Professor Hilary Whitehouse.
Assessment:	10,000 to 12,000 word dissertation.
Restrictions:	Enrolment in this offering is restricted.
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 28-Mar-2013
Coord/Lect:	Assoc. Professor Hilary Whitehouse.
Assessment:	10,000 to 12,000 word dissertation.
Restrictions:	Enrolment in this offering is restricted.
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 29-Aug-2013
Coord/Lect:	Assoc. Professor Hilary Whitehouse.
Assessment:	10,000 to 12,000 word dissertation.
Restrictions:	Enrolment in this offering is restricted.
Cairns, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 28-Mar-2013
Coord/Lect:	Assoc. Professor Hilary Whitehouse.
Assessment:	10,000 to 12,000 word dissertation.
Restrictions:	Enrolment in this offering is restricted.
Cairns, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 29-Aug-2013
Coord/Lect:	Assoc. Professor Hilary Whitehouse.
Assessment:	10,000 to 12,000 word dissertation.
Restrictions:	Enrolment in this offering is restricted.
JCU Singapore, Limited, Study Period 53
Census Date 14-Nov-2013
Face to face teaching (Independent work with supervisor and Mandatory attendance week of 21 October, dates to be advised)
Coord/Lect:	Assoc. Professor Hilary Whitehouse.
Assessment:	10,000 to 12,000 word dissertation.
Restrictions:	Enrolment in this offering is restricted.

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