OCC4091 · Occupational therapy honours research project 2

Overview

In OCC4091, you will continue to spend up to two days per week in the organisation or service area where the research proposal developed in OCC3072 will be implemented. This will involve you undertaking a research project, collecting data, analysing data, writing up results and contextualising the results in relation to pertinent literature and the professional practice context. You will disseminate your unique findings in an original thesis which will include a manuscript that may be submitted for publication in a scientific journal after you complete the unit. You will apply your project findings to occupational therapy practice and research. You will consolidate knowledge and skills towards workplace readiness for future clinician researcher roles and entry to higher degree research programs.

Offerings

Assessment

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

Assessment in this unit includes hurdle assessment tasks. Failure of any hurdle assessment task may result in failure of the unit.

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 the ability to be reflective, think critically, learn independently and be innovative in your approach to the research project.
2. Demonstrate appropriate oral, written and information technology skills during project implementation, to competently implement a research project within the research team.
3. Apply basic statistics and measurement concepts: levels of measurement, reliability, validity, normative data; as well as basic qualitative research concepts of rigor and trustworthiness.
4. Critically appraise and synthesise relevant research literature and theoretical material related to the research topic in written formats suitable for a scholarly manuscript and a thesis.
5. Implement the ethically approved research project to completion including competent recruitment, participant management, data collection management, and analysis in an ethical safe and timely manner.
6. Apply robust research principles to present and critically interpret findings/results in relation to occupational therapy research and practice.

Workload

Two days practice education off-campus for 12 weeks from last week of January to commence within 4 weeks before semester 1 teaching week commences.

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