EUN672 Understanding Research for Professionals
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| Unit code: | EUN672 |
|---|---|
| Antirequisite(s): | EDN610 |
| Equivalent(s): | EUZ672, EUQ661 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| Availabilities |
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| CSP student contribution | $555 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $2,976 |
| International unit fee | $4,020 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | EUN672 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | EUZ672, EUQ661 |
| Anti-requisite: | EDN610 |
| Coordinators: | Alberto Bellocchi | alberto.bellocchi@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit provides an introduction to social research. It emphasises the foundational aspects of social research and explores qualitative, quantitative and mixed research approaches. It will cover introductory or foundational issues such as what constitutes research, worldviews and epistemologies. You will be introduced to methodology, research design and a variety of methods commonly used in social research. A key objective is to equip you to become a critical and discerning consumer of social research. This unit will build your ability to evaluate projects in terms of research design, methods of data collection and analysis for the purposes of becoming a better user of research in professional settings.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge of research principles (CLO 1.2).
- Demonstrate cognitive, technical and creative skills to investigate, analyse and synthesise complex information, problems, concepts and theories and to apply established theories to different bodies of knowledge or practice (CLO 2.2).
- Demonstrate communication and technical research skills to justify and interpret theoretical propositions, methodologies, conclusions and professional decisions to specialist and non-specialist audiences (CLO 2.3).
- Demonstrate application of knowledge and skills with creativity and initiative to new situations in professional practice and/or for further learning with high level personal autonomy and accountability (CLO 3.1).
- Demonstrate ability to apply knowledge and skills to plan and execute a significant piece of research-based scholarship in the field of education (CLO 3.2).
Content
The content covered within this unit includes:
- what constitutes research, worldviews and epistemologies
- introduction to methodology and research design
- introduction to a variety of methods commonly used in social research such as case studies, surveys and experimental and quasi-experimental designs.
This unit provides an introduction to social research addressing foundational knowledge and skills that will be further developed in the other research units.
Learning Approaches
In this unit you will learn through engaging in the following ways. The unit will be taught in both internal and online mode over a semester teaching period.
In online mode, students will work with web-based materials and in real time online formats with lecturers and peers. You will engage in the blended learning opportunities throughout the teaching period.
In internal mode, the unit will be using a mixture of face-to-face and online lectures, workshops and tutorial sessions. You will engage with online material, as well as on campus with lecturers and peers throughout the teaching period.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will gain feedback in this unit by participating in workshop activities (online or face-to-face) with academics and peers that contribute to your understanding and skill development. This will involve learning tasks that support successful completion of your assessment tasks, including an ungraded online quiz that will support you to review and consolidate your understanding of key research terms concepts and approaches addressed in this unit.
Assessment
Overview
There are two assessment tasks for this unit:
- An online test/quiz covering the introductory research approaches and concepts addressed in this unit.
- An essay that will provide opportunity for you to focus on one research method, to expand your knowledge and understanding of this method and to consider its application within your professional context.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Online test 1
Questions will cover research paradigms, what constitutes good research, research design, differences between qualitative and quantitative and mixed methods approaches, qualitative and quantitative methods, sampling, reliability/validity and confidence/trustworthiness.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Relates to learning outcomes
CLOs 1.2, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1
Assessment: Detailed analysis of a research method.
Essay explicating one of the methods discussed in the class (history of its development, strengths, weaknesses) before concluding with a consideration as to how/why this method could be useful in your professional context.
Relates to learning outcomes
CLOs 1.2, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Costs
Students will have access to online resources including library resources and SPSS.
Resources
The prescribed text is Creswell, J. W. (2021) Educational research : planning, conducting, and evaluating quantitative and qualitative research. Sixth edition, global edition. Harlow, Essex, United Kingdom: Pearson Education Limited.
It is also recommended that students work with one of these introductory texts available (online) through the university library:
Resource Materials
Prescribed text(s)
Creswell, J. W. (2021) Educational research : planning, conducting, and evaluating quantitative and qualitative research. Sixth edition, global edition. Harlow, Essex, United Kingdom: Pearson Education Limited.
Recommended text(s)
Bickman, L., Rog, D., & Best, S. (2009). The SAGE handbook of applied social research methods (2nd ed.). Los Angeles, California: SAGE.
Neuman, L. (2014). Social research methods: qualitative and quantitative approaches (7th ed.). New Delhi: Pearson Education.
Walter, M. (2013). Social research methods (Third edition.). South Melbourne, Victoria: Oxford University Press.
Other
Students should also download the following data analysis packages to ther personal computers (free for QUT) students for aspects of the qualitative and quantitative workshops.
- SPSS
- NVivo
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no risks associated with this unit outside of those associated with day to day living.
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Online
| Unit code: | EUN672 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | EUZ672, EUQ661 |
| Anti-requisite: | EDN610 |
Overview
This unit provides an introduction to social research. It emphasises the foundational aspects of social research and explores qualitative, quantitative and mixed research approaches. It will cover introductory or foundational issues such as what constitutes research, worldviews and epistemologies. You will be introduced to methodology, research design and a variety of methods commonly used in social research. A key objective is to equip you to become a critical and discerning consumer of social research. This unit will build your ability to evaluate projects in terms of research design, methods of data collection and analysis for the purposes of becoming a better user of research in professional settings.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge of research principles (CLO 1.2).
- Demonstrate cognitive, technical and creative skills to investigate, analyse and synthesise complex information, problems, concepts and theories and to apply established theories to different bodies of knowledge or practice (CLO 2.2).
- Demonstrate communication and technical research skills to justify and interpret theoretical propositions, methodologies, conclusions and professional decisions to specialist and non-specialist audiences (CLO 2.3).
- Demonstrate application of knowledge and skills with creativity and initiative to new situations in professional practice and/or for further learning with high level personal autonomy and accountability (CLO 3.1).
- Demonstrate ability to apply knowledge and skills to plan and execute a significant piece of research-based scholarship in the field of education (CLO 3.2).
Content
The content covered within this unit includes:
- what constitutes research, worldviews and epistemologies
- introduction to methodology and research design
- introduction to a variety of methods commonly used in social research such as case studies, surveys and experimental and quasi-experimental designs.
This unit provides an introduction to social research addressing foundational knowledge and skills that will be further developed in the other research units.
Learning Approaches
In this unit you will learn through engaging in the following ways. The unit will be taught in both internal and online mode over a semester teaching period.
In online mode, students will work with web-based materials and in real time online formats with lecturers and peers. You will engage in the blended learning opportunities throughout the teaching period.
In internal mode, the unit will be using a mixture of face-to-face and online lectures, workshops and tutorial sessions. You will engage with online material, as well as on campus with lecturers and peers throughout the teaching period.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will gain feedback in this unit by participating in workshop activities (online or face-to-face) with academics and peers that contribute to your understanding and skill development. This will involve learning tasks that support successful completion of your assessment tasks, including an ungraded online quiz that will support you to review and consolidate your understanding of key research terms concepts and approaches addressed in this unit.
Assessment
Overview
There are two assessment tasks for this unit:
- An online test/quiz covering the introductory research approaches and concepts addressed in this unit.
- An essay that will provide opportunity for you to focus on one research method, to expand your knowledge and understanding of this method and to consider its application within your professional context.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Online test 1
Questions will cover research paradigms, what constitutes good research, research design, differences between qualitative and quantitative and mixed methods approaches, qualitative and quantitative methods, sampling, reliability/validity and confidence/trustworthiness.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Relates to learning outcomes
CLOs 1.2, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1
Assessment: Detailed analysis of a research method.
Essay explicating one of the methods discussed in the class (history of its development, strengths, weaknesses) before concluding with a consideration as to how/why this method could be useful in your professional context.
Relates to learning outcomes
CLOs 1.2, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Costs
Students will have access to online resources including library resources and SPSS.
Resources
The prescribed text is Creswell, J. W. (2021) Educational research : planning, conducting, and evaluating quantitative and qualitative research. Sixth edition, global edition. Harlow, Essex, United Kingdom: Pearson Education Limited.
It is also recommended that students work with one of these introductory texts available (online) through the university library:
Resource Materials
Prescribed text(s)
Creswell, J. W. (2021) Educational research : planning, conducting, and evaluating quantitative and qualitative research. Sixth edition, global edition. Harlow, Essex, United Kingdom: Pearson Education Limited.
Recommended text(s)
Bickman, L., Rog, D., & Best, S. (2009). The SAGE handbook of applied social research methods (2nd ed.). Los Angeles, California: SAGE.
Neuman, L. (2014). Social research methods: qualitative and quantitative approaches (7th ed.). New Delhi: Pearson Education.
Walter, M. (2013). Social research methods (Third edition.). South Melbourne, Victoria: Oxford University Press.
Other
Students should also download the following data analysis packages to ther personal computers (free for QUT) students for aspects of the qualitative and quantitative workshops.
- SPSS
- NVivo
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no risks associated with this unit outside of those associated with day to day living.
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Online
| Unit code: | EUN672 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | EUZ672, EUQ661 |
| Anti-requisite: | EDN610 |
Overview
This unit provides an introduction to social research. It emphasises the foundational aspects of social research and explores qualitative, quantitative and mixed research approaches. It will cover introductory or foundational issues such as what constitutes research, worldviews and epistemologies. You will be introduced to methodology, research design and a variety of methods commonly used in social research. A key objective is to equip you to become a critical and discerning consumer of social research. This unit will build your ability to evaluate projects in terms of research design, methods of data collection and analysis for the purposes of becoming a better user of research in professional settings.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge of research principles (CLO 1.2).
- Demonstrate cognitive, technical and creative skills to investigate, analyse and synthesise complex information, problems, concepts and theories and to apply established theories to different bodies of knowledge or practice (CLO 2.2).
- Demonstrate communication and technical research skills to justify and interpret theoretical propositions, methodologies, conclusions and professional decisions to specialist and non-specialist audiences (CLO 2.3).
- Demonstrate application of knowledge and skills with creativity and initiative to new situations in professional practice and/or for further learning with high level personal autonomy and accountability (CLO 3.1).
- Demonstrate ability to apply knowledge and skills to plan and execute a significant piece of research-based scholarship in the field of education (CLO 3.2).
Content
The content covered within this unit includes:
- what constitutes research, worldviews and epistemologies
- introduction to methodology and research design
- introduction to a variety of methods commonly used in social research such as case studies, surveys and experimental and quasi-experimental designs.
This unit provides an introduction to social research addressing foundational knowledge and skills that will be further developed in the other research units.
Learning Approaches
In this unit you will learn through engaging in the following ways. The unit will be taught in both internal and online mode over a semester teaching period.
In online mode, students will work with web-based materials and in real time online formats with lecturers and peers. You will engage in the blended learning opportunities throughout the teaching period.
In internal mode, the unit will be using a mixture of face-to-face and online lectures, workshops and tutorial sessions. You will engage with online material, as well as on campus with lecturers and peers throughout the teaching period.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will gain feedback in this unit by participating in workshop activities (online or face-to-face) with academics and peers that contribute to your understanding and skill development. This will involve learning tasks that support successful completion of your assessment tasks, including an ungraded online quiz that will support you to review and consolidate your understanding of key research terms concepts and approaches addressed in this unit.
Assessment
Overview
There are two assessment tasks for this unit:
- An online test/quiz covering the introductory research approaches and concepts addressed in this unit.
- An essay that will provide opportunity for you to focus on one research method, to expand your knowledge and understanding of this method and to consider its application within your professional context.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Online test 1
Questions will cover research paradigms, what constitutes good research, research design, differences between qualitative and quantitative and mixed methods approaches, qualitative and quantitative methods, sampling, reliability/validity and confidence/trustworthiness.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Relates to learning outcomes
CLOs 1.2, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1
Assessment: Detailed analysis of a research method.
Essay explicating one of the methods discussed in the class (history of its development, strengths, weaknesses) before concluding with a consideration as to how/why this method could be useful in your professional context.
Relates to learning outcomes
CLOs 1.2, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Costs
Students will have access to online resources including library resources and SPSS.
Resources
The prescribed text is Creswell, J. W. (2021) Educational research : planning, conducting, and evaluating quantitative and qualitative research. Sixth edition, global edition. Harlow, Essex, United Kingdom: Pearson Education Limited.
It is also recommended that students work with one of these introductory texts available (online) through the university library:
Resource Materials
Prescribed text(s)
Creswell, J. W. (2021) Educational research : planning, conducting, and evaluating quantitative and qualitative research. Sixth edition, global edition. Harlow, Essex, United Kingdom: Pearson Education Limited.
Recommended text(s)
Bickman, L., Rog, D., & Best, S. (2009). The SAGE handbook of applied social research methods (2nd ed.). Los Angeles, California: SAGE.
Neuman, L. (2014). Social research methods: qualitative and quantitative approaches (7th ed.). New Delhi: Pearson Education.
Walter, M. (2013). Social research methods (Third edition.). South Melbourne, Victoria: Oxford University Press.
Other
Students should also download the following data analysis packages to ther personal computers (free for QUT) students for aspects of the qualitative and quantitative workshops.
- SPSS
- NVivo
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no risks associated with this unit outside of those associated with day to day living.
Unit Outline: Flexible Period - 07A 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal (Start Date: 24 Jun 2024)
| Unit code: | EUN672 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | EUZ672, EUQ661 |
| Anti-requisite: | EDN610 |
| Coordinators: | Greg Thompson | g6.thompson@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit provides an introduction to social research. It emphasises the foundational aspects of social research and explores qualitative, quantitative and mixed research approaches. It will cover introductory or foundational issues such as what constitutes research, worldviews and epistemologies. You will be introduced to methodology, research design and a variety of methods commonly used in social research. A key objective is to equip you to become a critical and discerning consumer of social research. This unit will build your ability to evaluate projects in terms of research design, methods of data collection and analysis for the purposes of becoming a better user of research in professional settings.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge of research principles (CLO 1.2).
- Demonstrate cognitive, technical and creative skills to investigate, analyse and synthesise complex information, problems, concepts and theories and to apply established theories to different bodies of knowledge or practice (CLO 2.2).
- Demonstrate communication and technical research skills to justify and interpret theoretical propositions, methodologies, conclusions and professional decisions to specialist and non-specialist audiences (CLO 2.3).
- Demonstrate application of knowledge and skills with creativity and initiative to new situations in professional practice and/or for further learning with high level personal autonomy and accountability (CLO 3.1).
- Demonstrate ability to apply knowledge and skills to plan and execute a significant piece of research-based scholarship in the field of education (CLO 3.2).
Content
The content covered within this unit includes:
- what constitutes research, worldviews and epistemologies
- introduction to methodology and research design
- introduction to a variety of methods commonly used in social research such as case studies, surveys and experimental and quasi-experimental designs.
This unit provides an introduction to social research addressing foundational knowledge and skills that will be further developed in the other research units.
Learning Approaches
In this unit you will learn through engaging in the following ways. The unit will be taught in both internal and online mode over a semester teaching period.
In online mode, students will work with web-based materials and in real time online formats with lecturers and peers. You will engage in the blended learning opportunities throughout the teaching period.
In internal mode, the unit will be using a mixture of face-to-face and online lectures, workshops and tutorial sessions. You will engage with online material, as well as on campus with lecturers and peers throughout the teaching period.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will gain feedback in this unit by participating in workshop activities (online or face-to-face) with academics and peers that contribute to your understanding and skill development. This will involve learning tasks that support successful completion of your assessment tasks, including an ungraded online quiz that will support you to review and consolidate your understanding of key research terms concepts and approaches addressed in this unit.
Assessment
Overview
There are two assessment tasks for this unit:
- An online test/quiz covering the introductory research approaches and concepts addressed in this unit.
- An essay that will provide opportunity for you to focus on one research method, to expand your knowledge and understanding of this method and to consider its application within your professional context.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Online test 1
Questions will cover research paradigms, what constitutes good research, research design, differences between qualitative and quantitative and mixed methods approaches, qualitative and quantitative methods, sampling, reliability/validity and confidence/trustworthiness.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Relates to learning outcomes
CLOs 1.2, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1
Assessment: Detailed analysis of a research method.
Essay explicating one of the methods discussed in the class (history of its development, strengths, weaknesses) before concluding with a consideration as to how/why this method could be useful in your professional context.
Relates to learning outcomes
CLOs 1.2, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Costs
Students will have access to online resources including library resources and SPSS.
Resources
The prescribed text is Creswell, J. W. (2021) Educational research : planning, conducting, and evaluating quantitative and qualitative research. Sixth edition, global edition. Harlow, Essex, United Kingdom: Pearson Education Limited.
It is also recommended that students work with one of these introductory texts available (online) through the university library:
Resource Materials
Prescribed text(s)
Creswell, J. W. (2021) Educational research : planning, conducting, and evaluating quantitative and qualitative research. Sixth edition, global edition. Harlow, Essex, United Kingdom: Pearson Education Limited.
Recommended text(s)
Bickman, L., Rog, D., & Best, S. (2009). The SAGE handbook of applied social research methods (2nd ed.). Los Angeles, California: SAGE.
Neuman, L. (2014). Social research methods: qualitative and quantitative approaches (7th ed.). New Delhi: Pearson Education.
Walter, M. (2013). Social research methods (Third edition.). South Melbourne, Victoria: Oxford University Press.
Other
Students should also download the following data analysis packages to ther personal computers (free for QUT) students for aspects of the qualitative and quantitative workshops.
- SPSS
- NVivo
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no risks associated with this unit outside of those associated with day to day living.