IFQ712-2 Research in IT Practice 2
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| Unit code: | IFQ712-2 |
|---|---|
| Prerequisite(s): | IFQ712-1 |
| Antirequisite(s): | IFN701 |
| Equivalent(s): | IFN712 Research in IT Practice (requires both IFQ712-1 and IFQ712-2) |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| Availabilities |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,118 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $3,528 |
Unit Outline: Session 2 2024, QUT Online, Online
| Unit code: | IFQ712-2 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | IFQ712-1 Research in IT Practice 1 |
| Equivalent: | IFN712 Research in IT Practice (requires both IFQ712-1 and IFQ712-2) |
| Anti-requisite: | IFN701 |
Overview
As a professional, regardless of your discipline or context, you will be required to gather the best available evidence to make decisions, solve problems, and establish best practice, as well as innovate and develop. This unit will develop your understanding and higher order thinking related to the key concepts, principles, methodologies regarding research and provide the skills required in to perform research within professional settings and professional practice. This is unit is the second of a two-part introduction to research, following on directly from the unit IFQ712-1.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Evaluate the significance of current research in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)(CL01, CL03).
- Design a robust research proposal and plan aligned to the research process to ethically investigate a properly targeted research problem facing the ICT disciplines(CL02, CL06).
- Critically analyse current research publications relevant to problems or issues requiring research CL01, CL02).
- Appraise different research approaches and methods, and apply the most appropriate to the IT research project (CL01, CL03).
- Integrate advanced problem solving, analysis and design skills through a research project in an IT-related context (CL01, CL02, CL03, CL04).
- Communicate research findings using advanced technical writing and oral communication skills (CL04, CL05).
Content
This unit has been designed to provide conceptual knowledge about what research is, together with associated skills in order to undertake research in professional settings.
Major topics include:
- The research design process, including identifying and justifying a targeted research problem, deriving one or more clearly answerable research questions, selecting appropriate methods to address the research questions, how to undertake data collection and analysis
- Performing research, including applying research methods, collecting data, performing analysis in order to answer research questions, interpreting the results of the analysis
- Locating and critically analysing relevant published research
- Research integrity and ethical issues in professional settings
- Oral and written communication skills to clearly, concisely, coherently and convincingly convey the design and execution of the research and present the research findings
Learning Approaches
This unit takes a practice-based approach to understanding what research is, how to perform research and why it is important. Practical activities address these concepts within a socio-technical context.
The primary approach to learning will be through online workshops that support the development of skills required to design, execute and communicate research. The workshops will introduce you to relevant concepts related to the design and conduct of research. They will feature structured practical activities to acquire skills such as how to read research articles, how to communicate a compelling argument, how to search for and critically analyse research literature, how to identify a research problem, how to develop clearly answerable research questions, how to apply research methods, how to collect and analyse data, and how to interpret and appropriately communicate research results.
Assessment is considered to be an integral part of the learning in the unit and provides continual opportunities for formative feedback.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Advice and assistance will be provided by the teaching staff during workshop sessions. You will receive formative feedback on your progress in this unit during these sessions.
Guidelines and objectives will be provided for each piece of assessment to help you assess your progress.
Written feedback will be provided on items of assessment.
Consultation times, allowing individual contact between staff and students will be specified.
Assessment
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Research process
A critical part of successfully completing a research project is undertaking appropriate research activities. These activities include selecting research methods and tools, data collection and data analyses and structure the research paper. This assessment includes submission of detailed methods and results and oral presentation of the research methods and results.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Research paper
In this assessment item you are required to complete your research and produce a research paper and presentation that demonstrates the outcomes of the research. You will be required to establish that you have addressed an existing IT research problem, describe the design of the research, report on the new knowledge and outline the value of your outcomes. You are required to present this material clearly, concisely, coherently and in a professional style in both a written and oral formats.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
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
Requirements
No specific requirements.
Costs
There are no extraordinary charges or costs associated with the requirements for this unit.
Resources
Teaching and learning materials as provided on Canvas unit site
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no extraordinary risks associated with offering this unit.
Unit Outline: Session 4 2024, QUT Online, Online
| Unit code: | IFQ712-2 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | IFQ712-1 Research in IT Practice 1 |
| Equivalent: | IFN712 Research in IT Practice (requires both IFQ712-1 and IFQ712-2) |
| Anti-requisite: | IFN701 |
Overview
As a professional, regardless of your discipline or context, you will be required to gather the best available evidence to make decisions, solve problems, and establish best practice, as well as innovate and develop. This unit will develop your understanding and higher order thinking related to the key concepts, principles, methodologies regarding research and provide the skills required in to perform research within professional settings and professional practice. This is unit is the second of a two-part introduction to research, following on directly from the unit IFQ712-1.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Evaluate the significance of current research in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)(CL01, CL03).
- Design a robust research proposal and plan aligned to the research process to ethically investigate a properly targeted research problem facing the ICT disciplines(CL02, CL06).
- Critically analyse current research publications relevant to problems or issues requiring research CL01, CL02).
- Appraise different research approaches and methods, and apply the most appropriate to the IT research project (CL01, CL03).
- Integrate advanced problem solving, analysis and design skills through a research project in an IT-related context (CL01, CL02, CL03, CL04).
- Communicate research findings using advanced technical writing and oral communication skills (CL04, CL05).
Content
This unit has been designed to provide conceptual knowledge about what research is, together with associated skills in order to undertake research in professional settings.
Major topics include:
- The research design process, including identifying and justifying a targeted research problem, deriving one or more clearly answerable research questions, selecting appropriate methods to address the research questions, how to undertake data collection and analysis
- Performing research, including applying research methods, collecting data, performing analysis in order to answer research questions, interpreting the results of the analysis
- Locating and critically analysing relevant published research
- Research integrity and ethical issues in professional settings
- Oral and written communication skills to clearly, concisely, coherently and convincingly convey the design and execution of the research and present the research findings
Learning Approaches
This unit takes a practice-based approach to understanding what research is, how to perform research and why it is important. Practical activities address these concepts within a socio-technical context.
The primary approach to learning will be through online workshops that support the development of skills required to design, execute and communicate research. The workshops will introduce you to relevant concepts related to the design and conduct of research. They will feature structured practical activities to acquire skills such as how to read research articles, how to communicate a compelling argument, how to search for and critically analyse research literature, how to identify a research problem, how to develop clearly answerable research questions, how to apply research methods, how to collect and analyse data, and how to interpret and appropriately communicate research results.
Assessment is considered to be an integral part of the learning in the unit and provides continual opportunities for formative feedback.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Advice and assistance will be provided by the teaching staff during workshop sessions. You will receive formative feedback on your progress in this unit during these sessions.
Guidelines and objectives will be provided for each piece of assessment to help you assess your progress.
Written feedback will be provided on items of assessment.
Consultation times, allowing individual contact between staff and students will be specified.
Assessment
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Research process
A critical part of successfully completing a research project is undertaking appropriate research activities. These activities include selecting research methods and tools, data collection and data analyses and structure the research paper. This assessment includes submission of detailed methods and results and oral presentation of the research methods and results.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Research paper
In this assessment item you are required to complete your research and produce a research paper and presentation that demonstrates the outcomes of the research. You will be required to establish that you have addressed an existing IT research problem, describe the design of the research, report on the new knowledge and outline the value of your outcomes. You are required to present this material clearly, concisely, coherently and in a professional style in both a written and oral formats.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
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
Requirements
No specific requirements.
Costs
There are no extraordinary charges or costs associated with the requirements for this unit.
Resources
Teaching and learning materials as provided on Canvas unit site
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no extraordinary risks associated with offering this unit.