Department of Education, Unit Catalogue 2007/08 |
ED60298 Pilot research enquiry |
| Level: Doctoral |
| Modular: no specific semester |
| Assessment: CW 100% |
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[This unit is only available to students on the EdD programme] If your background and experience are considered appropriate, one of your two non-core units can be taken as a pilot research enquiry. In a pilot research enquiry you work with the unit tutor to develop and carry out an initial empirical study in a particular area of enquiry which might be related to your final research enquiry, or could be quite distinct. The assignment comprises a critical account of this study. The context of the pilot enquiry, the focus of the study and the characteristics of the research (i.e. its methodological foundations, its methods of enquiry and the data collection mechanisms to be used) will be negotiated with your tutor. You will agree on the scale and scope of the study. Only one of the two non-core units can be taken as a pilot research enquiry, and the approval of the Director of Studies for Research Students is needed for a unit to be followed in this way. The Director of Studies will need to be satisfied: * that your learning context will allow you to work in an appropriate fashion with your tutor - this will relate, inter alia, to ease of communication between you; * that you are able to access appropriate academic literature; and * that your working context is appropriate for study in this mode - this will relate, inter alia, to whether you are likely to be able to effect an empirical study of the kind you propose. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE READING PAPER AND PILOT RESEARCH ENQUIRY ARE MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE AND ONLY ONE CAN BE OFFERED AS ONE OF THE FOUR STUDY UNITS. |