Research Project: Health Program Evaluation

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2012:

Supervised Project taken over two semesters (12.5 credit points per semester) Students must enrol in both semesters consecutively.

240 hours

POPH90090 may be taken concurrently.

Students must have also completed other MPH subjects that are relevant to the proposed research topic.

Students entering the MPH from 2011 must have a weighted average mark of at least 70% for all relevant subjects to be eligible to enrol in the research project. Successful research project applicants will be selected on the basis of academic merit.

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The Research Project must be in an area of relevance to health program evaluation, and the topic must be approved by the student's supervisor(s). The research project may be:

• the development of an evaluation plan or protocol, incorporating a critical review of relevant literature;
• the analysis of existing evaluation data and preparation of a paper of publishable standard; or
• the planning, implementation and reporting of a small scale evaluation,

and may include qualitative and/or quantitative research methods.

On completion of the subject students will be able to:

• Formulate an evaluation research question,
• Provide a rationale for the choice of evaluation research question, the evaluation design and selected data collection and analytic methods,
• Summarise, analyse and interpret evaluation research findings,
• Present their evaluation research as formal oral presentations,
• Write up their evaluation research as a research report &/or as a journal manuscript or paper.

An oral presentation of 15 minutes (10 minute presentation, 5 minutes questions), due during the eleventh week of the first semester of enrolment (15%); an oral presentation of 20 minutes (15 minutes presentation, 5 minutes questions), due during the eleventh week of the second semester of enrolment (20%); a written research report of 5000 to 8,000 words, due during the examination period of the second semester of enrolment (65%). Students must pass the written research report (hurdle).

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This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

On completion of this subject, students will have developed skills in:

• Critical thinking and analysis,
• Initiative, autonomy and organization,
• Problem-solving,
• Finding, evaluating and using relevant information,
• Oral communication,
• Written communication.