PSY4404 · Psychology research project: Results and discussion

Overview

The aim of PSY4404 is to enable you to produce high quality research project components, consisting of research thesis results and discussion sections. This unit forms part of your undertaking of a supervised research project that aims to provide training in both discipline specific and generic research skills. The results component of the GDPA research thesis will consist of conducting and writing up of the results of statistical and/or qualitative analyses of data in order to answer research questions and test research hypotheses. The discussion component of the GDPA research thesis will consist of relating research results and methods to the research thesis introduction, including the literature review and hypotheses/research questions, and discussing how your results have contributed to knowledge of the research area. You will be provided with course materials and guidance to help you produce high quality results and discussion research thesis components, and to coherently synthesise these into the overall research project. The development of these skills and your application to the production of the quality data accumulation and results of the research project will build on your research and writing skills developed in previous courses.

Areas of study: Psychology

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

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Select, use and interpret results from statistical tests or qualitative analytic techniques appropriate to answering research questions and testing hypotheses within the context of psychology research
2. Analyse and present results from statistical tests or qualitative analytic techniques in appropriate visual and written formats
3. Produce research results relevant to a particular area of psychology
4. Interpret, evaluate and appraise research results and appropriately relate them to research hypotheses or research questions
5. Relate research results to existing research and identify further research that needs to be conducted to advance existing knowledge in a particular area of psychology
6. Explain how data analyses and interpretation, and its relationship to existing research, will be informed by the need to advance existing knowledge in a particular area of psychology

Workload

You should expect to spend an average of 20-25 hours per week per unit This time will cover: One-on-one research supervision (30 minutes per week) Group supervision (1 hour per Teaching Period) Independent research (4 hours) Weekly readings (4-6 hours) Knowledge-based assessment (8-10hrs, including revision)

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