2022/3, Trimester 1, FACE-TO-FACE, Edinburgh Napier University
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Occurrence: | 001 |
Primary mode of delivery: | FACE-TO-FACE |
Location of delivery: | MERCHISTON |
Partner: | Edinburgh Napier University |
Member of staff responsible for delivering module: | C. Paul Sellors |
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Learning, Teaching and Assessment (LTA) Approach: |
This module uses both seminars and workshops. The seminar classes present and discuss research methods and processes that students will use to initiate, design and develop their research projects. Group discussion during seminars will provide students with the valuable opportunity to present their research in progress to their colleagues and lecturer frequently. This will help them to improve their meeting communication skills and learn how to give, receive, and benefit from constructive feedback (LOs 1, 4, 5). Workshop classes provide students with a supervised and guided environment within which they will develop their research projects. Although each student will complete an individual project, groups will be formed where there is overlap between projects and/or research methods. Workshop groupings will shift across the trimester to accommodate the different objectives and schedules of each research project. One-to-one lecturer feedback will also be provided regularly in workshop classes (LOs 1-5).
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This module has extensive opportunities for continuous formative feedback across the trimester as students develop their research projects. Feedback will be provided by other students and the lecturer during seminar discussions and workshop meetings. Most of this feedback will be verbal. Students will develop their listening and note-taking skills to learn how to capture relevant commentary during a live discussion. This mode of feedback is designed specifically to emulate professional meetings. The lecturer will also provide written feedback on the initial ideas for the research project early in the trimester and the project in development approximately two thirds through the module.
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This module has three elements of assessment, which will be submitted together. The first is a research dossier that will include, as appropriate, all research notes, annotations, artefacts, and test materials. The second is a research report that explains and critically reflects upon your research process and findings. The third is a project proposal that includes your research problem, methodologies, objectives, rationale, bibliography, preliminary findings, communications strategy, and proposed project timetable. If you are working on a group project you will submit a separate research dossier of your contribution to the project. Your title page should identify the project and your collaborators so your work can be considered in the context of the project. You will also provide your own research report and project proposal. Your contribution to the project must be clearly distinguished from your colleagues’ contributions. In your research report you will explain how your work contributes to the group project.
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Student Activity (Notional Equivalent Study Hours (NESH)) |
Mode of activity | Learning & Teaching Activity | NESH (Study Hours) |
Face To Face | Seminar | 10 |
Face To Face | Practical classes and workshops | 14 |
Independent Learning | Guided independent study | 176 |
| Total Study Hours | 200 |
| Expected Total Study Hours for Module | 200 |
Assessment |
Type of Assessment | Weighting % | LOs covered | Week due | Length in Hours/Words |
Portfolio | 35 | 1, 2, 3 | 12 | , WORDS= 2000 |
Report | 40 | 1, 5 | 12 | , WORDS= 2000 |
Project - Written | 25 | 1, 4, 5 | 12 | , WORDS= 1000 |
Component 1 subtotal: | 75 | |
Component 2 subtotal: | 25 | | | |
Module subtotal: | 100 | | | |