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Unit of Study HLT83001 - Allied Health Honours Seminar I (2018)

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  • Enrolment information

    Enrolled in Bachelor of Occupational Therapy with Honours, Bachelor of Speech Pathology with Honours or Bachelor of Podiatry with Honours. Successful completion of all units in Years 1 and 2 of BOccThy, BSpPath or BPod on first attempt; with minimum Credit grade average. Offered place in Honours stream - places in the Honours program are limited and subject to the availability of suitable supervisors.

Unit description

Provides students with the opportunity to engage in supervised research in a specific area, thereby gaining experience of the professional role of a researcher in allied health. The unit requires students to explore a range of research designs and methods associated with an identified area of research. This unit is the first in the embedded Allied Health Honours program.

Unit content

  • Concepts of clinical research and evidence-based practice
  • Sources of knowledge (includes, but is not limited to):
    • Tradition and authority
    • Logical reasoning – deductive and inductive
    • Scientific method
  • Research process and types of research
    • Research process
    • Qualitative and quantitative research
    • Research continuum
  • Critiquing research
    • Qualitative and quantitative
  • Application of various research approaches and methods to an identified topic area

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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 compare different research designs, identifying their strengths and weaknesses.
2 analyse the relationship between research questions, different research designs, paradigmatic frameworks and how research is conducted
3 critically review research designs relevant to an identified topic area

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

  1. compare different research designs, identifying their strengths and weaknesses.
    • GA1:
    • GA5:
    • GA6:
  2. analyse the relationship between research questions, different research designs, paradigmatic frameworks and how research is conducted
    • GA1:
    • GA5:
    • GA6:
  3. critically review research designs relevant to an identified topic area
    • GA1:
    • GA5:
    • GA6: