EDF4101 · Research project in education

Overview

This unit builds your capacity to research teaching and learning in particular educational settings. You will demonstrate your capacity to work with data ethically through an analysis task. This is focused on examining data from an education setting generated for particular purposes via a range of select methods, e.g. via self-study, action research, or participant observation, focus groups or interviews with stakeholders, analysis of documents or other artefacts, etc. You will apply and hone your developing research skills through a small-scale project designed to inform your own educational practice. Finally, you will demonstrate a clear and coherent exposition of the knowledge and insights you have gained about research processes and outcomes through a poster presentation of your findings to your peers and tutors, followed by a reflection task.

Areas of study: Early years education Early years and primary education Primary education Primary and secondary education Primary and secondary inclusive education Primary and secondary health and physical education Secondary education Secondary health and physical education

Offerings

The Handbook publishes no offerings for this unit.

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Demonstrate your capacity to generate data ethically and analyse its significance
2. Develop, conduct and report on a small-scale project on a professional practice-related topic
3. Demonstrate a clear and coherent exposition of the knowledge you have gained in written and oral forms
4. Reflect on how educational research supports professional learning and practice development, including your own.

Workload

The minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per teaching period comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Usually, you can expect to engage with: • 24 hours* of scheduled learning delivered on campus via weekly/regular directed learning activities; and • the remaining hours to be allocated towards self-directed/independent study Scheduled learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement. *Subject to variation due to professional experience requirements

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.