IFQ712-1 Research in IT Practice 1
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| Unit code: | IFQ712-1 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | Completion of 96cp from MIT |
| 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 1 2024, QUT Online, Online
| Unit code: | IFQ712-1 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | Completion of 96cp from MIT |
| 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 first of a two-part introduction to research with the unit IFQ712-2 being designed to immediately follow.
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 research publications relevant to problems or issues requiring research (CL01, CL02).
- Appraise different research approaches and methods and apply the most appropriate to an IT project (CL01, CL03).
- Integrate advanced problem solving, analysis and design skills to conduct 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 search for quality research articles, how to communicate a compelling argument, how to evaluate and critically analyse research literature, how to identify a research problem, how to develop clearly answerable research questions, how to apply research methodologies, 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 or offline. 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
Overview
The assessments will include two main parts: research process and research paper.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale and S (Satisfactory) / U (Unsatisfactory)
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Research process
A critical part of successfully completing a research project is undertaking appropriate research activities. Initially these activities include reviewing relevant literature, developing research questions, selecting appropriate research. This assessment includes submission and oral presentation of the research problem statements and oral presentation of the research progress report.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Project progress report
In this assessment item you are required to start your research and produce a research progress report that demonstrates the initial settings 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 your progress and initial findings, and outline the research schedule for the completion of your project. You are required to present your research progress clearly, concisely, coherently and in a professional style in both a written and oral format.
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 in the Canvas site
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no extraordinary risks associated with offering this unit.
Unit Outline: Session 3 2024, QUT Online, Online
| Unit code: | IFQ712-1 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | Completion of 96cp from MIT |
| 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 first of a two-part introduction to research with the unit IFQ712-2 being designed to immediately follow.
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 research publications relevant to problems or issues requiring research (CL01, CL02).
- Appraise different research approaches and methods and apply the most appropriate to an IT project (CL01, CL03).
- Integrate advanced problem solving, analysis and design skills to conduct 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 search for quality research articles, how to communicate a compelling argument, how to evaluate and critically analyse research literature, how to identify a research problem, how to develop clearly answerable research questions, how to apply research methodologies, 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 or offline. 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
Overview
The assessments will include two main parts: research process and research paper.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale and S (Satisfactory) / U (Unsatisfactory)
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Research process
A critical part of successfully completing a research project is undertaking appropriate research activities. Initially these activities include reviewing relevant literature, developing research questions, selecting appropriate research. This assessment includes submission and oral presentation of the research problem statements and oral presentation of the research progress report.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Project progress report
In this assessment item you are required to start your research and produce a research progress report that demonstrates the initial settings 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 your progress and initial findings, and outline the research schedule for the completion of your project. You are required to present your research progress clearly, concisely, coherently and in a professional style in both a written and oral format.
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 in the Canvas site
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no extraordinary risks associated with offering this unit.