Graduate Research Methods

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2009:

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This subject focuses on research skills for students undertaking professional training in psychology. Emphasis is placed on the skills and methods that will assist students in the development and completion of their research thesis. Topics may include: major design and measurement decisions; survey approaches; sampling issues; practical management of research; the development of research proposals and theses; and data analysis options.

This subject has the following objectives:

• to equip studnets for critical assessment of research in their professional field of psychology;
• to develop an understadning of the importance of inegrating theory, measuremen,research design, empirical observation and inference;
• to expose students to a range of data analytic approaches;
• to give students skills and techniquesfor the development and presentation of their research proposals; and
• to discuss techniques for satisfactory and timely completion of a research thesis.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

Written skills

Analytic, information integration and synthesizing skills