School: Arts and Humanities

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

    Preparation of Thesis Proposal
  • Unit Code

    PSY5189
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Deirdre Giulietta DRAKE

Description

In this unit students conceive an appropriate research methodology and analysis techniques to investigate a research question (or questions), and write a research proposal. Under supervision students develop their research skills by designing a research project which extends existing knowledge in a psychological domain.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded HPS5101, PSY4160

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically analyse a body of literature to identify a deficit in knowledge or applied problem relevant to psychology that could be addressed by empirical investigation.
  2. Evaluate relevant theoretical frameworks and formulate an empirical research question relevant to psychology within an appropriate theoretical context.
  3. Design a scientifically sound methodology and data analytical approach to investigate an empirical research question relevant to psychology.
  4. Identify relevant ethical and cultural issues and propose strategies to conduct research in accordance with ethical codes.

Unit Content

  1. The major curricula topics covered in this unit will depend upon the students research question. In general, the unit will address how to:
  2. Conceive a research topic and question.
  3. Plan, design and write a research proposal including application for Ethics Approval, where appropriate.
  4. Review a research proposal in light of reviewers' advice.

Learning Experience

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

Additional Learning Experience Information

Online delivery supported by discussion groups, study modules and an on-campus residential school (Joondalup campus).

Assessment

GS4 GRADING SCHEMA 4 Used for undifferentiated pass/fail 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.

ONLINE
TypeDescription
Research Paper ^Thesis proposal
Exercise ^Ethics application

^ Mandatory to Pass


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: Arts and Humanities

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

    Preparation of Thesis Proposal
  • Unit Code

    PSY5189
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Deirdre Giulietta DRAKE

Description

In this unit students conceive an appropriate research methodology and analysis techniques to investigate a research question (or questions), and write a research proposal. Under supervision students develop their research skills by designing a research project which extends existing knowledge in a psychological domain.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded HPS5101, PSY4160

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically analyse a body of literature to identify a deficit in knowledge or applied problem relevant to psychology that could be addressed by empirical investigation.
  2. Evaluate relevant theoretical frameworks and formulate an empirical research question relevant to psychology within an appropriate theoretical context.
  3. Design a scientifically sound methodology and data analytical approach to investigate an empirical research question relevant to psychology.
  4. Identify relevant ethical and cultural issues and propose strategies to conduct research in accordance with ethical codes.

Unit Content

  1. The major curricula topics covered in this unit will depend upon the students research question. In general, the unit will address how to:
  2. Conceive a research topic and question.
  3. Plan, design and write a research proposal including application for Ethics Approval, where appropriate.
  4. Review a research proposal in light of reviewers' advice.

Learning Experience

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

Additional Learning Experience Information

Online delivery supported by discussion groups, study modules and an on-campus residential school (Joondalup campus).

Assessment

GS4 GRADING SCHEMA 4 Used for undifferentiated pass/fail 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.

ONLINE
TypeDescription
Research Paper ^Thesis proposal
Exercise ^Ethics application

^ Mandatory to Pass


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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