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Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science

School: Exercise and Health Sciences

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.

  • Unit Title

    Nutrition Research Project

  • Unit Code

    NUT6103

  • Year

    2015

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

This unit is dedicated to the implementation and reporting of a defined nutrition/dietetics research project. Consideration of the research-practice continuum forms part of the project's dissemination phase.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from NUT4448, NUT6100

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded NUT5107

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Communicate findings from the project to the nutrition and dietetic industry, including specialists and non-specialist stakeholders.
  2. Critically analyse and interpret the collected data using appropriate statistical methodologies.
  3. Demonstrate competency in the selection and execution of appropriate methodology for a substantial nutrition/dietetics research project.
  4. Evaluate and discuss the research findings in relation to the research question and appropriate literature.

Unit Content

  1. Project management.
  2. Reflection and problem solving.
  3. Research and ethical enquiry.
  4. Research dissemination through written work and oral presentation.
  5. Scientific writing.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, workshops, small group discussions, guest lecturers, e learning activities,and audiovisual and multimedia activities. Each student will work with a university supervisor and a work place staff member in the implementation of the research project.

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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioProject management and progress report30%
Assignment ^Journal article50%
PresentationResearch seminar and poster presentation20%

^ Mandatory to Pass

Text References

  • ^ Lindsay, D. (2011). Scientific writing = thinking in words. Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing.
  • ^ Allen, P., & Bennet, K. (2012). SPSS Statistics: A practical guide version 20.0 (1st ed.). Victoria, Australia: Cengage Learning.
  • Cresswell. J., & Plano Clark, V. (2007). Designing and conducting mixed methods research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
  • Pope, C., & Mays, N. (Eds.). (2006). Qualitative research in health care. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publications/BMJ Books.
  • Monsen, E.R., & Van Horn, L. (2008). Research successful approaches (3rd ed.). USA: American Dietetic Association.
  • McDavid, J., Huse I., & Hawthorn, L. (2013). Program evaluation and performance measurement: An introduction to practice (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
  • Crosby, R., DiClemente, R., & Salazar, L. (Eds.). (2006). Research methods in health promotion. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
  • Haynes, R., Sackett, D.L., Guyatt, G.H., & Tugwell, P. (2006). Clinical epidemiology: How to do clinical practice research (3rd ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.

Journal References

  • Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • The Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging
  • The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Nutrition and Dietetics

^ Mandatory reference

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 Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science

School: Exercise and Health Sciences

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.

  • Unit Title

    Nutrition Research Project

  • Unit Code

    NUT6103

  • Year

    2015

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

This unit is dedicated to the implementation and reporting of a defined nutrition/dietetics research project. Consideration of the research-practice continuum forms part of the project's dissemination phase.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from NUT4448, NUT6100

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded NUT5107

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Communicate findings from the project to the nutrition and dietetic industry, including specialists and non-specialist stakeholders.
  2. Critically analyse and interpret the collected data using appropriate statistical methodologies.
  3. Demonstrate competency in the selection and execution of appropriate methodology for a substantial nutrition/dietetics research project.
  4. Evaluate and discuss the research findings in relation to the research question and appropriate literature.

Unit Content

  1. Project management.
  2. Reflection and problem solving.
  3. Research and ethical enquiry.
  4. Research dissemination through written work and oral presentation.
  5. Scientific writing.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, workshops, small group discussions, guest lecturers, e learning activities,and audiovisual and multimedia activities. Each student will work with a university supervisor and a work place staff member in the implementation of the research project.

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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioProject management and progress report30%
Assignment ^Journal article50%
PresentationResearch seminar and poster presentation20%

^ Mandatory to Pass

Text References

  • ^ Lindsay, D. (2011). Scientific writing = thinking in words. Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing.
  • ^ Allen, P., & Bennet, K. (2012). SPSS Statistics: A practical guide version 20.0 (1st ed.). Victoria, Australia: Cengage Learning.
  • Cresswell. J., & Plano Clark, V. (2007). Designing and conducting mixed methods research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
  • Pope, C., & Mays, N. (Eds.). (2006). Qualitative research in health care. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publications/BMJ Books.
  • Monsen, E.R., & Van Horn, L. (2008). Research successful approaches (3rd ed.). USA: American Dietetic Association.
  • McDavid, J., Huse I., & Hawthorn, L. (2013). Program evaluation and performance measurement: An introduction to practice (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
  • Crosby, R., DiClemente, R., & Salazar, L. (Eds.). (2006). Research methods in health promotion. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
  • Haynes, R., Sackett, D.L., Guyatt, G.H., & Tugwell, P. (2006). Clinical epidemiology: How to do clinical practice research (3rd ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.

Journal References

  • Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • The Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging
  • The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Nutrition and Dietetics

^ Mandatory reference

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 Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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