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Unit Summary
Unit type
UG Coursework Unit
Credit points
12
AQF level
Level of learning
Advanced
Former School/College
Unit aim
Equips students with the knowledge and skills to identify and address significant questions concerning occupational therapy practice. Develops competencies in generating practice-based evidence in order to better address the occupational performance needs of a variety of population groups and to guide assessment, intervention, policy development and clinical decision making.
Unit content
- Evaluation in the context of research, quality improvement, accreditation standards, clinical risk and safety, provision of services, needs analysis, assessment, research and policy development
- Researching and critically evaluating the empirical literature
- Research writing and communication skills
- Paradigmatic frameworks of research
- Methodology and research design
- Approaches to data analysis
- Understanding and responding to the values and beliefs of key stakeholders and professional ethics in the design and conduct of practice-based research
- Research and evaluation infrastructure
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 | conceptualise and prioritise questions of critical concern to professional practice | |||||||
| 2 | comprehensively investigate research literature in order to understand and critically evaluate a topic of clinical interest | |||||||
| 3 | identify and defend a coherent framework for the conduct of evaluation | |||||||
| 4 | design a well integrated, effective, coherent and comprehensive methodological approach to addressing questions of critical concern | |||||||
| 5 | identify, respect and address the values and beliefs of all stakeholders in the design and implementation of an evaluation that is consistent with professional standards of ethical conduct | |||||||
| 6 | prepare an evaluation proposal which is succinct, logical, unambiguous, compelling and well written and researched. | |||||||
| 7 | evaluate research proposals and reports of professional peers consistent with peer review guidelines employed by academic journals and scholars in occupational therapy. | |||||||
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
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conceptualise and prioritise questions of critical concern to professional practice
- GA1:
- GA4:
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comprehensively investigate research literature in order to understand and critically evaluate a topic of clinical interest
- GA1:
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identify and defend a coherent framework for the conduct of evaluation
- GA1:
- GA4:
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design a well integrated, effective, coherent and comprehensive methodological approach to addressing questions of critical concern
- GA1:
- GA4:
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identify, respect and address the values and beliefs of all stakeholders in the design and implementation of an evaluation that is consistent with professional standards of ethical conduct
- GA1:
- GA3:
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prepare an evaluation proposal which is succinct, logical, unambiguous, compelling and well written and researched.
- GA1:
- GA4:
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evaluate research proposals and reports of professional peers consistent with peer review guidelines employed by academic journals and scholars in occupational therapy.
- GA1:
- GA3:
Prescribed texts
- Any edition is suitable for this unit: Portney, L.G., 2020, Foundations of Clinical Research: Applications to Evidence-Based Practice, 4th, F.A. Davis, Philadelphia. ISBN: 978-0803661134.