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Unit Summary
Unit type
Hons Unit
Credit points
24
AQF level
Level of learning
Advanced
Former School/College
Unit aim
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
Learning outcomes
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 | 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:
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Collect and analyse valid, reliable data
- GA1:
- GA3:
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Communicate research findings at a conference to a professionally acceptable standard
- GA1:
- GA3:
- GA6:
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Produce an empirically-based research report
- GA1:
- GA3:
- GA6:
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.