IFN006 AIRS: Advanced Information Research Skills
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| Unit code: | IFN006 |
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| Antirequisite(s): | IFN001 |
| Credit points: | 6 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| International unit fee | $2,412 |
Unit Outline: 10 Week Teaching Period - 1 2024, Online
| Unit code: | IFN006 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 6 |
| Anti-requisite: | IFN001 Advanced Information Research Skills |
Overview
IFN006 is a 6-credit point, mandatory coursework unit for students in IF49, Doctor of Philosophy, IF80, Master of Philosophy, and ED11, Doctor of Education.
The unit prepares learners for research at QUT by systematic introduction to the theories and practical application of information skills and transferability of those skills to a field of study. It will support higher degree research students to create new knowledge by engaging deeply with a breadth of information sources. Learners will acquire strategies to find, organise, analyse, and evaluate information.
These information skills are essential for scholars operating in a contemporary research environment. They facilitate the capacity for critical evaluation of a field of research and enable personal information skills development during the research degree and beyond.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Formulate and apply advanced search strategies to find highly relevant information using appropriate databases and other repositories.
- Create a strategy to store, organise and maintain current awareness of information for easy and efficient retrieval.
- Analyse and evaluate key information based on your research project.
Content
The curriculum develops information skills required to complete a higher research degree. The content includes foundational aspects of information management for researchers, from searching, retrieving, and organising information sources to critically analysing, evaluating, and using information. The content works towards development of behavioural and relational attributes outlined in the QUT Information Literacy Framework.
Learning Approaches
In this unit, you will engage with online materials, including pre-recorded lectures and readings, to develop your knowledge of the theory underpinning information skills in your discipline. You will have opportunities to practice these skills in online learning activities, building your capability for practical application in your field of research. Your work in these activities should be relevant to the problem or questions you are investigating in your research project. You can attend online workshops to practice further and get formative feedback from the teaching staff and peers before submitting the assessments. The unit design gives the option to connect with your peers and develop an interdisciplinary community of learning.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- From the facilitators during workshops
- Individual feedback from Liaison Librarians available for consultation to clarify requirements of assessment questions.
- Grades and comments provided in the course of assessment marking
- Information via QUT Canvas announcements
- Feedback from peers within tutorials and discussions
Assessment
Overview
There are two authentic assessment tasks to be completed in this unit. Assessment One is designed to demonstrate disciplinary skills in searching, storing, and organising information. Assessment Two will utilise these information skills to find relevant information and develop analysis and evaluation competencies.
Unit Grading Scheme
S (Satisfactory) / U (Unsatisfactory)
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Assessment One: Search and organisation strategy
Using your research question/s, you will design an effective search strategy in a disciplinary appropriate database, which returns highly relevant results. You will detail how you plan to organise, store, and retrieve information and your associated notes that you gather throughout your degree. You will also describe your plan for maintaining current awareness of new research outputs in your field of study throughout your degree.
Assessment: Assessment Two: Annotated bibliography
You will complete an annotated bibliography using research outputs that you plan to use in your project. You will critically analyse and evaluate these outputs, providing evidence to back your statements.
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.
Resources
Learning resources are available through the IFN006 AIRS: Advanced Information Research Skills Canvas unit site and the unit reading list.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no identified physical risks associated with the completion of this unit.
Unit Outline: 10 Week Teaching Period - 2 2024, Online
| Unit code: | IFN006 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 6 |
| Anti-requisite: | IFN001 Advanced Information Research Skills |
Overview
IFN006 is a 6-credit point, mandatory coursework unit for students in IF49, Doctor of Philosophy, IF80, Master of Philosophy, and ED11, Doctor of Education.
The unit prepares learners for research at QUT by systematic introduction to the theories and practical application of information skills and transferability of those skills to a field of study. It will support higher degree research students to create new knowledge by engaging deeply with a breadth of information sources. Learners will acquire strategies to find, organise, analyse, and evaluate information.
These information skills are essential for scholars operating in a contemporary research environment. They facilitate the capacity for critical evaluation of a field of research and enable personal information skills development during the research degree and beyond.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Formulate and apply advanced search strategies to find highly relevant information using appropriate databases and other repositories.
- Create a strategy to store, organise and maintain current awareness of information for easy and efficient retrieval.
- Analyse and evaluate key information based on your research project.
Content
The curriculum develops information skills required to complete a higher research degree. The content includes foundational aspects of information management for researchers, from searching, retrieving, and organising information sources to critically analysing, evaluating, and using information. The content works towards development of behavioural and relational attributes outlined in the QUT Information Literacy Framework.
Learning Approaches
In this unit, you will engage with online materials, including pre-recorded lectures and readings, to develop your knowledge of the theory underpinning information skills in your discipline. You will have opportunities to practice these skills in online learning activities, building your capability for practical application in your field of research. Your work in these activities should be relevant to the problem or questions you are investigating in your research project. You can attend online workshops to practice further and get formative feedback from the teaching staff and peers before submitting the assessments. The unit design gives the option to connect with your peers and develop an interdisciplinary community of learning.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- From the facilitators during workshops
- Individual feedback from Liaison Librarians available for consultation to clarify requirements of assessment questions.
- Grades and comments provided in the course of assessment marking
- Information via QUT Canvas announcements
- Feedback from peers within tutorials and discussions
Assessment
Overview
There are two authentic assessment tasks to be completed in this unit. Assessment One is designed to demonstrate disciplinary skills in searching, storing, and organising information. Assessment Two will utilise these information skills to find relevant information and develop analysis and evaluation competencies.
Unit Grading Scheme
S (Satisfactory) / U (Unsatisfactory)
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Assessment One: Search and organisation strategy
Using your research question/s, you will design an effective search strategy in a disciplinary appropriate database, which returns highly relevant results. You will detail how you plan to organise, store, and retrieve information and your associated notes that you gather throughout your degree. You will also describe your plan for maintaining current awareness of new research outputs in your field of study throughout your degree.
Assessment: Assessment Two: Annotated bibliography
You will complete an annotated bibliography using research outputs that you plan to use in your project. You will critically analyse and evaluate these outputs, providing evidence to back your statements.
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.
Resources
Learning resources are available through the IFN006 AIRS: Advanced Information Research Skills Canvas unit site and the unit reading list.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no identified physical risks associated with the completion of this unit.
Unit Outline: 10 Week Teaching Period - 3 2024, Online
| Unit code: | IFN006 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 6 |
| Anti-requisite: | IFN001 Advanced Information Research Skills |
Overview
IFN006 is a 6-credit point, mandatory coursework unit for students in IF49, Doctor of Philosophy, IF80, Master of Philosophy, and ED11, Doctor of Education.
The unit prepares learners for research at QUT by systematic introduction to the theories and practical application of information skills and transferability of those skills to a field of study. It will support higher degree research students to create new knowledge by engaging deeply with a breadth of information sources. Learners will acquire strategies to find, organise, analyse, and evaluate information.
These information skills are essential for scholars operating in a contemporary research environment. They facilitate the capacity for critical evaluation of a field of research and enable personal information skills development during the research degree and beyond.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Formulate and apply advanced search strategies to find highly relevant information using appropriate databases and other repositories.
- Create a strategy to store, organise and maintain current awareness of information for easy and efficient retrieval.
- Analyse and evaluate key information based on your research project.
Content
The curriculum develops information skills required to complete a higher research degree. The content includes foundational aspects of information management for researchers, from searching, retrieving, and organising information sources to critically analysing, evaluating, and using information. The content works towards development of behavioural and relational attributes outlined in the QUT Information Literacy Framework.
Learning Approaches
In this unit, you will engage with online materials, including pre-recorded lectures and readings, to develop your knowledge of the theory underpinning information skills in your discipline. You will have opportunities to practice these skills in online learning activities, building your capability for practical application in your field of research. Your work in these activities should be relevant to the problem or questions you are investigating in your research project. You can attend online workshops to practice further and get formative feedback from the teaching staff and peers before submitting the assessments. The unit design gives the option to connect with your peers and develop an interdisciplinary community of learning.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- From the facilitators during workshops
- Individual feedback from Liaison Librarians available for consultation to clarify requirements of assessment questions.
- Grades and comments provided in the course of assessment marking
- Information via QUT Canvas announcements
- Feedback from peers within tutorials and discussions
Assessment
Overview
There are two authentic assessment tasks to be completed in this unit. Assessment One is designed to demonstrate disciplinary skills in searching, storing, and organising information. Assessment Two will utilise these information skills to find relevant information and develop analysis and evaluation competencies.
Unit Grading Scheme
S (Satisfactory) / U (Unsatisfactory)
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Assessment One: Search and organisation strategy
Using your research question/s, you will design an effective search strategy in a disciplinary appropriate database, which returns highly relevant results. You will detail how you plan to organise, store, and retrieve information and your associated notes that you gather throughout your degree. You will also describe your plan for maintaining current awareness of new research outputs in your field of study throughout your degree.
Assessment: Assessment Two: Annotated bibliography
You will complete an annotated bibliography using research outputs that you plan to use in your project. You will critically analyse and evaluate these outputs, providing evidence to back your statements.
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.
Resources
Learning resources are available through the IFN006 AIRS: Advanced Information Research Skills Canvas unit site and the unit reading list.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no identified physical risks associated with the completion of this unit.
Unit Outline: 10 Week Teaching Period - 4 2024, Online
| Unit code: | IFN006 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 6 |
| Anti-requisite: | IFN001 Advanced Information Research Skills |
Overview
IFN006 is a 6-credit point, mandatory coursework unit for students in IF49, Doctor of Philosophy, IF80, Master of Philosophy, and ED11, Doctor of Education.
The unit prepares learners for research at QUT by systematic introduction to the theories and practical application of information skills and transferability of those skills to a field of study. It will support higher degree research students to create new knowledge by engaging deeply with a breadth of information sources. Learners will acquire strategies to find, organise, analyse, and evaluate information.
These information skills are essential for scholars operating in a contemporary research environment. They facilitate the capacity for critical evaluation of a field of research and enable personal information skills development during the research degree and beyond.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Formulate and apply advanced search strategies to find highly relevant information using appropriate databases and other repositories.
- Create a strategy to store, organise and maintain current awareness of information for easy and efficient retrieval.
- Analyse and evaluate key information based on your research project.
Content
The curriculum develops information skills required to complete a higher research degree. The content includes foundational aspects of information management for researchers, from searching, retrieving, and organising information sources to critically analysing, evaluating, and using information. The content works towards development of behavioural and relational attributes outlined in the QUT Information Literacy Framework.
Learning Approaches
In this unit, you will engage with online materials, including pre-recorded lectures and readings, to develop your knowledge of the theory underpinning information skills in your discipline. You will have opportunities to practice these skills in online learning activities, building your capability for practical application in your field of research. Your work in these activities should be relevant to the problem or questions you are investigating in your research project. You can attend online workshops to practice further and get formative feedback from the teaching staff and peers before submitting the assessments. The unit design gives the option to connect with your peers and develop an interdisciplinary community of learning.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- From the facilitators during workshops
- Individual feedback from Liaison Librarians available for consultation to clarify requirements of assessment questions.
- Grades and comments provided in the course of assessment marking
- Information via QUT Canvas announcements
- Feedback from peers within tutorials and discussions
Assessment
Overview
There are two authentic assessment tasks to be completed in this unit. Assessment One is designed to demonstrate disciplinary skills in searching, storing, and organising information. Assessment Two will utilise these information skills to find relevant information and develop analysis and evaluation competencies.
Unit Grading Scheme
S (Satisfactory) / U (Unsatisfactory)
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Assessment One: Search and organisation strategy
Using your research question/s, you will design an effective search strategy in a disciplinary appropriate database, which returns highly relevant results. You will detail how you plan to organise, store, and retrieve information and your associated notes that you gather throughout your degree. You will also describe your plan for maintaining current awareness of new research outputs in your field of study throughout your degree.
Assessment: Assessment Two: Annotated bibliography
You will complete an annotated bibliography using research outputs that you plan to use in your project. You will critically analyse and evaluate these outputs, providing evidence to back your statements.
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.
Resources
Learning resources are available through the IFN006 AIRS: Advanced Information Research Skills Canvas unit site and the unit reading list.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no identified physical risks associated with the completion of this unit.