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Unit Summary
Unit type
Hons Unit
Credit points
12
AQF level
Level of learning
Introductory
Former School/College
Unit aim
Provides students with an appreciation of the contemporary health science research landscape, identifying research needs in improving health care and developing research questions. Skill is acquired in systematically locating, appraising and synthesising published research.
Unit content
- The logic and purpose of inquiry
- Developing research questions
- Translational research
- Literature review
- Critical appraisal of research
- Advanced bibliographic search
- Reference management
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 | design and conduct a comprehensive literature search on a research topic | |||||||
| 2 | compare and appraise research literature and methodologies relevant to the research topic | |||||||
| 3 | synthesise the existing knowledge on the research topic | |||||||
| 4 | demonstrate knowledge of the principles and practices of the health science research topic | |||||||
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
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design and conduct a comprehensive literature search on a research topic
- GA5:
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compare and appraise research literature and methodologies relevant to the research topic
- GA1:
- GA4:
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synthesise the existing knowledge on the research topic
- GA4:
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demonstrate knowledge of the principles and practices of the health science research topic
- GA4:
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.