Research Project

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2008:

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There are no scheduled classes for this subject. Instead students undertake a research project and obtain experience in all aspects of conducting and reporting of independent empirical research. The project itself is a maximum of 10 000 words in length and is submitted towards the end of the year. The research project constitutes 50% of the course.

Publication manual of the American Psychological Association. 5th Edition, July 2001

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• critically analysing the existing knowledge about a research topic prior to one's own research (eg. sophisticated conceptual analysis of relevant content area/literature/intervention program etc., critical appraisal of one's own and others' research, generation of productive research questions);
• constructing a research plan (eg. research design, methods of observation) to address one's research question;
• executing one's research plan adequately to obtain data;
• analysing the data to address the research question appropriately; and
• discussing the implications of the results coherently within the context of the existing knowledge relevant to the research topic.