Back to Find Units Page

Unit of Study EDU93109 - Evaluative Literature Review (2018)

Show me unit information for year

Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    PG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    12

  • AQF level

    9

  • Level of learning

    Advanced

  • Former School/College

    Former School of Education

  • Enrolment information

    N/A

Unit description

Provides an opportunity to develop organisational research skills and investigate critically the literature relating to an agreed area with a view to identifying research possibilities. Students will be assisted to develop skills in literature searching, the analysis of research reports, the creation of a bibliographic data base, and the development and production of a short literature review. An essential requirement of this unit will be the identification of a research problem to be investigated for the purposes of successfully completing the two research project units, EDU93111 and EDU93112.

Unit content

Topic 1. Selecting and Scoping a Literature Review Topic – “Indulging Your Curiosity”

Topic 2. Developing an Annotated Bibliography – “Keeping a Record”

Topic 3. Analysing a Research Report – “Looking More Deeply”

Topic 4. Taking a Position – “Relating Research to your Interests and Needs”

Topic 5. Writing Persuasively – “Telling Others”

Topic 6. Responding to a Reviewer – “Listening to Advice”

Availabilities

Not currently available in 2018

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 1. Locate information relevant to a topic of choice for possible future research.
2 2. Analyse and critique information relevant to the topic of choice.
3 3. Formulate and write a well-structured literature review.
4 4. Demonstrate sound organisational, referencing and citation skills.

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

  1. 1. Locate information relevant to a topic of choice for possible future research.
    • GA1:
    • GA7:
  2. 2. Analyse and critique information relevant to the topic of choice.
    • GA6:
  3. 3. Formulate and write a well-structured literature review.
    • GA1:
  4. 4. Demonstrate sound organisational, referencing and citation skills.
    • GA6: