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Unit of Study EDU93109 - Evaluative Literature Review (2017)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    PG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    12

  • AQF level

    9

  • Level of learning

    Advanced

  • Former School/College

    Former School of Education

  • Pre-requisites

    N/A

  • Co-requisites

    N/A

  • Anti-requisites

    N/A

  • Enrolment information

    N/A

Unit description

Provides students with the opportunity to develop organisational research skills and critically evaluate the literature relating to an educational problem, phenomena, or knowledge need, with a view to identifying research possibilities. Students are assisted to develop skills in academic writing, advanced word processing, establishing a bibliographic database, accessing information sources, managing a literature review and structuring an evaluative argument about the research literature in their area.

Unit content

Week 1: Foundational research skills.
Week 2: The nature and purpose of a critical literature review.
Week 3: Logistics of researching a topic - accessing information sources, literature search strategies, managing the literature review process.
Weeks 4,5 & 6: Writing a literature review, including structuring an argument through a literature review.

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Not currently available in 2017

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 Locate, evaluate and critique information relevant to an educational problem.
2 Formulate and write a well-structured literature review, with a coherent line of argument.
3 Demonstrate effective skills in organizing, referencing and citing information.

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

  1. Locate, evaluate and critique information relevant to an educational problem.
    • GA1:
    • GA7:
  2. Formulate and write a well-structured literature review, with a coherent line of argument.
    • GA6:
  3. Demonstrate effective skills in organizing, referencing and citing information.
    • GA1: