Graduate Research Methods

This subject is not offered in 2013.

54 hours

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Completion of APAC approved psychology studies to fourth-year (Honours) level.

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

One group presentation of a research proposal; to be presented in class during semester (30%);

One individual report of a research proposal, up to 1500 words; to be submitted at the end of the semester (70%).

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This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

Written skills

Analytic, information integration and synthesizing skills