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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 | |
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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
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- 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.