School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Research Preparation: Developing a Research Topic
  • Unit Code

    EDU6186
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Christine CUNNINGHAM

Description

This unit involves the development and presentation of a research proposal appropriate for a Master of Education by Research. Your research proposal will be a blue-print of the research that you plan to undertake. Your well-prepared proposal will clearly outline why the research is important, what the research questions are and how these will be addressed through the research. It will also articulates the parameters of your study and enables you to identify the key milestones, requirements and resources needed to achieve your research objectives.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse presentations and readings related to the selected topics.
  2. Undertake independent inquiry.
  3. Analyse and evaluate contemporary issues in educational practice and/or educational research.
  4. Prepare a research proposal that illustrates active reflection, a consideration of related literature and appropriate research questions in relation to a selected topic.
  5. Outline the implications of an investigation informing educational practice and present a research proposal appropriate for partial fulfillment of the requirements for confirmation of candidature for Master of Education.

Unit Content

  1. Completing a research proposal. The specific format, detail and scope of your research proposal will vary depending on your discipline and level of degree. It should be written in sufficient detail to ensure that others can fully understand the proposed research study. Your supervisors are the best experts to advise you on what’s expected, including the appropriate length for a research proposal in the School of Education. Once you have written research proposal to the satisfaction of your supervisors, you will be ready to present a seminar based on your proposal.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Independent inquiry, supervision.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for Undifferentiated Pass/Fail units inc. practical units or work-integrated learning

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
Research PaperResearch paper for Proposal Seminar.
ONLINE
TypeDescription
Research PaperResearch paper for Proposal Seminar.

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Research Preparation: Developing a Research Topic
  • Unit Code

    EDU6186
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Christine CUNNINGHAM

Description

This unit involves the development and presentation of a research proposal appropriate for a Master of Education by Research. Your research proposal will be a blue-print of the research that you plan to undertake. Your well-prepared proposal will clearly outline why the research is important, what the research questions are and how these will be addressed through the research. It will also articulates the parameters of your study and enables you to identify the key milestones, requirements and resources needed to achieve your research objectives.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse presentations and readings related to the selected topics.
  2. Undertake independent inquiry.
  3. Analyse and evaluate contemporary issues in educational practice and/or educational research.
  4. Prepare a research proposal that illustrates active reflection, a consideration of related literature and appropriate research questions in relation to a selected topic.
  5. Outline the implications of an investigation informing educational practice and present a research proposal appropriate for partial fulfillment of the requirements for confirmation of candidature for Master of Education.

Unit Content

  1. Completing a research proposal. The specific format, detail and scope of your research proposal will vary depending on your discipline and level of degree. It should be written in sufficient detail to ensure that others can fully understand the proposed research study. Your supervisors are the best experts to advise you on what’s expected, including the appropriate length for a research proposal in the School of Education. Once you have written research proposal to the satisfaction of your supervisors, you will be ready to present a seminar based on your proposal.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Independent inquiry, supervision.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for Undifferentiated Pass/Fail units inc. practical units or work-integrated learning

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
Research PaperResearch paper for Proposal Seminar.
ONLINE
TypeDescription
Research PaperResearch paper for Proposal Seminar.

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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