This week’s topics
Review and coursework completion
- Reviewing the learning outcomes
- Completing and checking coursework against the criteria
- Self-assessment
What you will be able to do
- 1.1 Critically evaluate various research approaches that are available for solving a problem.
- 1.2 Demonstrate understanding of research philosophies and its influence in data collection process.
- 1.3 Justify the choice of research design, strategy and choice of research method.
- 2.1 Identify appropriate methods for gathering data that aligns with the research design.
- 2.2 Analyse various methods in terms of its advantages and weakness.
- 2.3 Evaluate data collection methods in terms of reliability and validity of research.
- 2.4 Justify a data collection method for a given scenario.
- 3.1 Extract, Transform and Load quantitative data into specialised software packages such as SPSS.
- 3.2 Identify dependant, independent, intervening, moderator, control and extraneous variables.
- 3.3 Develop hypothesis for a given research context.
- 3.4 Evaluate various statistical test for a given scenario and justify the chosen test.
- 3.5 Test the hypothesis with the most appropriate and draw meaningful conclusions.
- 4.1 Evaluate the range of qualitative approaches that are available for undertaking qualitative research.
- 4.2 Appreciate the challenges associated in undertaking qualitative research and the implications in research design.
- 4.3 Demonstrate high level understanding of various qualitative analysis techniques and tools.
- 5.1 Appreciate the importance of research ethics and its contribution to generation of new knowledge.
- 5.2 Identify ethical issues that can arise for a given research scenario and provide relevant recommendations.
- 5.3 Develop an argument and counter arguments on the ethical issues related to data collection, storage, analysis and reporting.
- 6.1 Undertake qualitative and quantitative data analysis for a given dataset.
- 6.2 Develop a report presenting the findings after making appropriate interpretations.
- 6.3 Identify the potential limitations from the analysis.
- 6.4 Highlight the ethical issues that might have occurred during the data collection stage.
Activity
Guided review of every criterion; coursework completion clinic and peer review.
Study materials
The teaching notes, exercises and videos of this week are in the student portal. Your portal is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance, so you can open them before the semester starts.
