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Unit of Study BHS83004 - Psychology Honours Thesis II (2016)

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Unit description

Provides students with the opportunity to obtain experience in designing and implementing empirical research, under supervision, in a specialised field of psychology. The unit will culminate in a conference presentation and a written research report

Unit content

  • Designing & implementing a research project
  • Appropriate analysis and reporting of empirical data
  • Reporting research findings as a conference presentation
  • Writing a research report in the style of a journal article

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Location Domestic International
Coffs Harbour Session 2 Session 2

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 Collect and analyse valid, reliable data
2 Communicate research findings at a conference to a professionally acceptable standard
3 Produce an empirically-based research report

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. Collect and analyse valid, reliable data
    • GA1:
    • GA3:
  2. Communicate research findings at a conference to a professionally acceptable standard
    • GA1:
    • GA3:
    • GA6:
  3. Produce an empirically-based research report
    • GA1:
    • GA3:
    • GA6:

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