Availabilities:
Location | Domestic | International |
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Gold Coast | Session 1 | N/A |
Unit Summary
Unit type
UG Coursework Unit
Credit points
12
AQF level
Level of learning
Advanced
Former School/College
Pre-requisites
MAT00330 - Research and Analysis in Health AND HLT10590 - Home and Community Occupations AND HLT10591 - Regional Rural Remote Fieldwork AND be admitted to course: 3007224 - Bachelor of Occupational Therapy
Co-requisites
Unit aim
Equips participants with the tools to identify and address fundamental 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
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 evaluation stakeholders in the design and implementation of an evaluation and 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
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- GA2:
- GA4:
- GA5:
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comprehensively investigate research literature in order to understand and critically evaluate a topic of clinical interest
- GA1:
- GA4:
- GA5:
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identify and defend a coherent framework for the conduct of evaluation
- GA1:
- GA4:
- GA5:
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design a well integrated, effective, coherent and comprehensive methodological approach to addressing questions of critical concern
- GA1:
- GA2:
- GA4:
- GA5:
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identify, respect and address the values and beliefs of all evaluation stakeholders in the design and implementation of an evaluation and consistent with professional standards of ethical conduct
- GA3:
- GA4:
- GA5:
- GA7:
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prepare an evaluation proposal which is succinct, logical, unambiguous, compelling and well written and researched.
- GA1:
- GA4:
- GA5:
- GA6:
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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:
- GA4:
- GA5:
- GA6:
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.