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Postgraduate Course: Research Training (Dissertation Students) (REDU11005)

Course Outline
SchoolMoray House School of Education CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)
Course typeDissertation AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits0 ECTS Credits0
SummaryThis training is designed to provide course members with the knowledge and skills necessary for undertaking a dissertation/extended study at postgraduate level. It will offer an overview of the concepts and techniques which underpin research and provide students with an opportunity to practice certain research skills. The module is assessed by producing a proposal for the student's dissertation including a literature review, a strategy for data collection and a timetable. This module constitutes the research methods element of the dissertation for students enrolled on a programme which has recently been reviewed.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
Course members should demonstrate:

-the ability to identify a professionally relevant research question from a broader area of enquiry and to develop a plan which will enable the research to be implemented;

-the ability to use computer-based and other sources of bibliographic data and to evaluate critically the literature accessed;

-awareness of the range of investigation techniques used in research, of the values and assumptions underlying each technique and of the limitations of the evidence produced;

-critical engagement with the relationships between theory, evidence, policy and practice;

-an appreciation of the principles of ethics in research and how these principles apply to specified contexts;

-knowledge of the key aspects of research proposals and reports and of the nature of scientific writing.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Rory Ewins
Tel: (0131 6)51 4789
Email: r.ewins@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Yvonne Cairney
Tel: (0131 6)51 4241
Email: yvonne.cairney@ed.ac.uk
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