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

    Advanced Seminar
  • Unit Code

    EDU6195
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Wei ZHANG

Description

This unit is a compulsory unit in the Masters of Education suite of units and explores educational research and how education theory relates to educational practice. The major themes are explored through academic readings; research presentations and related critical analysis. Completion of assignments/papers related to the themes consolidate learning during the semester.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Reflect on their personal ontology, epistemology and axiology and how these affect a person's interaction with education research.
  2. Examine a range of academic views on what constitutes high quality research in an education context and develop criteria to evaluate education research.
  3. Apply academic criteria to critically analyse the quality of education research to enable informed decisions about its application to policy, practice and/or further research.

Unit Content

  1. Students may examine education research through directed reading, coordinated lectures and seminars presented by visiting scholars, academic staff and postgraduate students. The readings review elements of good research and subsequent content will focus on contemporary issues at international, national and local levels, research methodologies and reports of research. All research analysis will allow for interaction and debate/inquiry.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 1 hour lectureNot Offered
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 2 hour tutorialNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Directed reading may be complemented with presentations and seminars drawn from those presented in the School of Education. Local, state, national and international conferences and seminars, as well as other professional learning activities through education systems, professional organisations and associations, can be used to demonstrate learning in this unit. Structured discussion and critique of research presented in the seminars will scaffold students' development of a sophisticated research awareness and capacity to evaluate research design and outcomes. Flexible delivery will involve choices of online, mixed mode or on-campus attendance.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

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
TypeDescriptionValue
ReviewCritical Analysis Criteria40%
EssayCritical Analysis of an Academic Research Paper60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ReviewCritical Analysis Criteria40%
EssayCritical Analysis of an Academic Research Paper60%

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

    Advanced Seminar
  • Unit Code

    EDU6195
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Wei ZHANG

Description

This unit is a compulsory unit in the Masters of Education suite of units and explores educational research and how education theory relates to educational practice. The major themes are explored through academic readings; research presentations and related critical analysis. Completion of assignments/papers related to the themes consolidate learning during the semester.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Reflect on their personal ontology, epistemology and axiology and how these affect a person's interaction with education research.
  2. Examine a range of academic views on what constitutes high quality research in an education context and develop criteria to evaluate education research.
  3. Apply academic criteria to critically analyse the quality of education research to enable informed decisions about its application to policy, practice and/or further research.

Unit Content

  1. Students may examine education research through directed reading, coordinated lectures and seminars presented by visiting scholars, academic staff and postgraduate students. The readings review elements of good research and subsequent content will focus on contemporary issues at international, national and local levels, research methodologies and reports of research. All research analysis will allow for interaction and debate/inquiry.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 1 hour lectureNot Offered
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 2 hour tutorialNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Directed reading may be complemented with presentations and seminars drawn from those presented in the School of Education. Local, state, national and international conferences and seminars, as well as other professional learning activities through education systems, professional organisations and associations, can be used to demonstrate learning in this unit. Structured discussion and critique of research presented in the seminars will scaffold students' development of a sophisticated research awareness and capacity to evaluate research design and outcomes. Flexible delivery will involve choices of online, mixed mode or on-campus attendance.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

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
TypeDescriptionValue
ReviewCritical Analysis Criteria40%
EssayCritical Analysis of an Academic Research Paper60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ReviewCritical Analysis Criteria40%
EssayCritical Analysis of an Academic Research Paper60%

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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