Module ERPM005 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
ERPM005: Designing and Communicating Research
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Aims
This module aims to develop your knowledge and skills in designing and communicating educational research. Designing research will involve formulating different kinds of research questions and cover various design and methodologies. Communicating research includes skills and knowledge about literature searching, and communicating research to different audiences through different mediums.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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Module-Specific Skills | 1. Use and critically appraise a variety of educational research designs, dealing with complex issues, both creatively and systematically 2. Communicate research clearly in different formats and media for specialist and non-specialist audiences |
Discipline-Specific Skills | 3. Demonstrate a practical understanding of how established techniques of research and enquiry are used to create and interpret knowledge in the discipline 4. Identify the needs of different kinds of audience, the needs of different kinds of publication/media and adopt appropriate styles for these to communicate research; |
Personal and Key Skills | 5. Demonstrate sound personal judgment, even in the absence of complete data, but particularly in respect of ethically sensitive issues; 6. Clearly communicate and present ideas when writing and speaking and to listen effectively and persuade rationally; 7. Use a wide-range of IT effectively including specialist software for retrieval and storage of literature, critical appraisal of internet sources, and appropriate use of IT for communication and dissemination of research |
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:
Searching for and reviewing literature; systematic search strategies, recording and summarising identified sources, examining what is meant by critical analysis
Formulating different kinds of research questions and how they relate to different methodologies
Designing research using different design frameworks
Evaluating research and its contribution to knowledge in the field
Written formats for different audiences and dissemination: writing for academic, professional and other audiences, needs of the audience, needs of publication or medium, procedures for getting published, informal peer review
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
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30 | 270 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | 30 | 10x3 hour teaching sessions (lectures, workshops and seminars), including on campus teaching and recorded sessions |
Guided independent study | 170 | Reading and assignment preparation |
Guided independent study | 100 | Writing summative assignment |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
www.ncrm.ac.uk/TandE/restore.php
ELE:
http://vle.exeter.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=2485&topic=1