Week 1 Assessments
This week:
By Day 7 (Wednesday), submit the Academic Integrity
Declaration
By Day 3 (Saturday), submit your Key Concept Exercise
to Turnitin
By Day 3 (Saturday), post your Key Concept Exercise to
the Collaboration Forum
By Day 7 (Wednesday), respond to your colleagues’ in
the Collaboration Forum
Key Concept Exercise: Identifying research topics
Choosing a research topic is the first important step
in any research process. The topic needs to be focused and the overall intended
research should be feasible, with clear expectations regarding the contribution
it is expected to make to academia.
For this week's Key Concept Exercise you present your
motivation for doing research by considering your own interests in a specific
research field. In addition, you discuss if/how your proposed topic has been
studied previously by making reference to academic sources which explore the
same, or similar, topics.
To prepare for this Key Concept Exercise:
Read the required Learning Resources for Week 1
Consider your journey through the programme so far and
the topic-problem areas you have encountered during your study and/or from your
professional practice
To complete this Key Concept Exercise:
By Day 3 (Saturday)
In approximately 500 words, describe the research
topic-problem you might be interested in researching, and describe the reasons
why
In formulating your Key Concept Exercise, consider the
following questions:
What would be your interest in conducting a study on
this topic?
Has this topic been discussed in the academic
literature? Identify at least two research papers that motivated your thoughts
By Day 3 (Saturday), submit your Key Concept Exercise
to the Turnitin Link provided.
When writing your responses you should synthesise the
theory with real-world experience and use examples of the theories in action.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Please
be aware that the potential Research Topic that you propose and discuss this
week will not be ‘set in stone’ and as you progress through the class.
Indeed, it is expected that this will evolve and be refined as you achieve the
Learning Outcomes of the Module. Please also note that the proposed Topic
should be clearly linked to the specific degree field that you are studying
(Human Resources, Marketing or Management).
Be sure to read over your Key Concept Exercise before
submitting it to your Instructor. Make sure the spelling and grammar are
correct and the language, citing and referencing you use when providing your
opinion are appropriate for academic writing.
The Key Concept Exercise for this week is not graded,
but you will receive feedback from your Instructor to help you improve your
work. Please take advantage of this opportunity to learn from your Instructor’s
feedback. Give the assignment your full effort and ask for clarification on any
feedback you do not understand.
To submit your Key Concept Exercise to Turnitin, click
the "View/Complete" link for Week 1 Key Concept Exercise -- Turnitin
- FF.
By Day 7 (Wednesday)
Post 3-5 replies to your classmates’ posts in the
Collaboration Forum by:
Providing constructive critique on the scope and
significance of proposed research topics
Contributing suggestions on how the topic might be
narrowed as appropriate
Suggesting additional ways in which a research project
on their proposed topic would contribute to knowledge
Highlighting possible ethical issues and feasibility
constraints with a research project in this area
This week’s Collaboration is not graded, but you will
receive feedback from your Instructor to help you improve your work. Please
take advantage of this opportunity to learn from your Instructor’s feedback –
give the assignment your full effort and ask for clarification on any feedback
you do not understand.
Ensure that you spread your Collaboration posts across
at least three separate days of each week. This will help maximise the value of
your Collaboration with classmates and serve to meet the Learning Objectives
for each activity.
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Week 2 Assessments
This
week:
By Day 3
(Saturday), submit your Key Concept Exercise to Turnitin
By Day 3
(Saturday), post your Key Concept Exercise to the Collaboration Forum
By Day 7
(Wednesday), respond to your colleagues’ in the Collaboration Forum
Key Concept Exercise: The purpose and value
of academic research
The most
important step in framing and meeting the objectives of your research is to
formulate a set of well-defined research questions or testable hypotheses.
For this
week's Key Concept Exercise, using the two published papers provided in your
field, you will review the motivation behind framing research topics and
choosing specific sets of research questions, evaluate methodologies used
within the context of the main objectives of the research and the wider
literature on the topics, and finally discuss the potential contributions that
the two articles make.
To
prepare for this Key Concept Exercise:
Read the
Required Learning Resources for Week 2
Consider
the two papers from your degree field in the Required Learning Resources,
specifically thinking about how you may evaluate their strengths and weaknesses
To
complete this Key Concept Exercise:
By Day 3 (Saturday)
In
approximately 500 words, critically evaluate ONE of the sample research
articles provided from your degree field, addressing its strengths and
weaknesses
In
formulating your Key Concept Exercise, consider the following questions:
·
What motivated the
research?
·
What research questions
were explored?
·
What was the methodology
followed by the researcher(s)?
·
How did the findings
contribute to academia?
By Day 3
(Saturday), submit your Key Concept Exercise to the Turnitin Link provided.
When
writing your responses you should synthesise the theory with real-world
experience and use examples of the theories in action.
Be sure
to read over your Key Concept Exercise before submitting it to your Instructor.
Make sure the spelling and grammar are correct and the language, citing and
referencing you use when providing your opinion are appropriate for academic
writing.
To submit
your Key Concept Exercise to Turnitin, click the "View/Complete" link
for Week 2 Key Concept Exercise -- Turnitin.
By Day 7
(Wednesday)
Post 3-5
replies to your classmates’ posts in the Collaboration Forum by:
Examining
similarities and differences in your critical evaluations of the content of the
reviewed article
Identifying
lessons from the reviewed articles and how these could be applied to your own
research project and those of colleagues
Proposing
ways in which additional research might be conducted on the same or similar
topics
Asking
insightful questions about colleagues’ interpretations of ideas from the
Learning Resources
Ensure
that you spread your Collaboration posts across at least three separate days of
each week. This will help maximise the value of your Collaboration with
classmates and serve to meet the Learning Objectives for each activity.
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Week 3 Assessments
This week:
By Day 3 (Saturday), submit your Key Concept Exercise
to Turnitin
By Day 3 (Saturday), post your Key Concept Exercise to
the Collaboration Forum
By Day 7 (Wednesday), respond to your colleagues’ in
the Collaboration Forum
By Day 7 (Wednesday), submit your Individual
Assignment to Turnitin
Key Concept Exercise: Methodology and methods
Linking paradigm and methodology and choosing an
appropriate methodology lie at the heart of research.
Whether using a case-study, action research, research
that relies upon grounded theory, or econometrics, the research design should
ensure that the chosen methodological framework meets the objectives of the
research, and helps the researcher answer the research questions.
For this week's Key Concept Exercise you will evaluate
the characteristics of the methodologies used in the two papers from your field
and consider whether those align to your own research plans.
To prepare for this Key Concept Exercise:
Read the Required Learning Resources for Week 3.
Revisit the two papers from your degree field in the
Required Learning Resources and consider the paradigms and methodologies used.
To complete this Key Concept Exercise:
By Day 3 (Saturday)
In approximately 500 words, present the paradigms and
methodologies used in the TWO articles
In formulating your Key Concept Exercise, consider the
following questions:
·
What are the advantages
and disadvantages of the methodologies implemented in these studies?
·
Which of these could (or
could not) be used for your research and why?
·
What could be your
feasibility concerns in any case?
By Day 3 (Saturday), submit your Key Concept Exercise
to the Turnitin Link provided.
When writing your responses you should synthesise the
theory with real-world experience and use examples of the theories in action.
Be sure to read over your Key Concept Exercise before
submitting it to your Instructor. Make sure the spelling and grammar are
correct and the language, citing and referencing you use when providing your
opinion are appropriate for academic writing.
To submit your Key Concept Exercise to Turnitin, click
the "View/Complete" link for Week 3 Key Concept Exercise -- Turnitin.
By Day 7 (Wednesday)
Post 3-5 replies to your classmates’ posts in the
Collaboration Forum by:
Examining similarities and differences in your
evaluations of different research methodologies and methods and their potential
use in different contexts
Debating the need for clear alignment between the
research topic, question, and methodology/method, and what this looks like in
practice
Identifying lessons from the reviewed articles, and
from the Learning Resources, and how these could be applied to your own
proposed research projects and those of colleagues
Asking insightful questions about your colleagues’
interpretations of concepts from the Learning Resources
Ensure that you spread your Collaboration
posts across at least three separate days of each week. This will
help maximise the value of your Collaboration with classmates and serve to meet
the Learning Objectives for each activity.
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Individual Assignment: Planning for your research project
This week, you will complete the first of two
Individual Assignments, the second of which will be completed in Week 7. The
Individual Assignments are designed to develop your skills at applying the
knowledge gained in the module to the development of a potential future
proposal for a research project.
The initial stages of the research proposal are
illustrated in Figure 6.2 of the text book (Collis & Hussey, 2013, p. 100).
This week you will present your topic (keeping in mind the criteria mentioned
in your text book Box 6.1 p. 101) research motivation, and pertinent literature
reading so far.
To prepare for this Individual Assignment:
Revisit Chapter 6 of your core text, ‘Writing your
research proposal’ (Collis & Hussey, 2013, pp. 96-128)
Return to your chosen research topic-problem
identified in Week 1 (as subsequently amended) and consider how you may develop
your ideas further including literature, research questions, your interest and
scope, and feasibility
To complete this Individual Assignment:
By Day 7 (Wednesday)
Prepare a report of approximately 1,500 words in which
you:
Present/discuss your chosen research topic from your
degree field
Discuss the key arguments and findings from pertinent
literature and draft your critical review keeping in mind its purpose
Formulate the main research question(s)
Describe your interest in the topic and questions,
demonstrating the motivation for your research, plus the link between your
topic/questions and existing research literature
Discuss the feasibility of the study and explain how
you can gain access to the data that you need to collect
By Day 7 (Wednesday), submit your Individual
Assignment to the Turnitin Link provided.
Be sure to read over your Individual Assignment before
submitting it to your Instructor. Make sure the spelling and grammar are
correct and the language, citing and referencing you use when providing your
opinion are appropriate for academic writing.
This assignment is graded. See the rubric for specific
grading criteria.
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Week 4 Assessments
This week:
By Day 3 (Saturday),
submit your Key Concept Exercise to Turnitin
By Day 3 (Saturday),
post your Key Concept Exercise to the Collaboration Forum
By Day 7 (Wednesday),
respond to your colleagues’ in the Collaboration Forum
By Day 7 (Wednesday),
submit your Personal Development Portfolio
Key Concept Exercise: Following
quantitative research design
The data collection
process is always a fundamental element in empirical research.
For this week's Key
Concept Exercise you will shape your research idea within the context of a
quantitative research framework, analyse the optimal data collection process
that could align to your research idea, explore the strengths and weaknesses of
the chosen technique, and finally critically discuss the potential validity and
reliability of the data that you plan to collect.
To prepare for this
Key Concept Exercise:
Read the required
Learning Resources for Week 4
Return to your chosen
research topic-problem identified in Week 1 (as subsequently amended) and
consider a quantitative approach
To complete this Key
Concept Exercise:
By Day 3 (Saturday)
In approximately 500
words, explain how your research ideas could take the shape of a quantitative
research project.
In formulating your
Key Concept Exercise, consider the following questions:
·
What specific methods
would you implement for data collection and analysis?
·
What type of data would
you need to tackle the research question(s)?
·
What are the strengths and
weaknesses of the research design?
·
Can you recommend ways to
maximise the validity and reliability of the data to be collected?
By Day 3 (Saturday),
submit your Key Concept Exercise to the Turnitin Link provided.
When writing your
responses you should synthesise the theory with real-world experience and use
examples of the theories in action.
Be sure to read over
your Key Concept Exercise before submitting it to your Instructor. Make sure
the spelling and grammar are correct and the language, citing and referencing
you use when providing your opinion are appropriate for academic writing.
To submit your Key
Concept Exercise to Turnitin, click the "View/Complete" link for Week
4 Key Concept Exercise -- Turnitin.
By Day 7 (Wednesday)
Post 3-5 replies to
your classmates’ posts in the Collaboration Forum by:
Providing
constructive critique on the scope and significance of quantitative research
Identifying
alternative methods that might more effectively enable them to achieve their
aims
Highlighting possible
ethical issues and feasibility constraints with the collection of primary
quantitative data
Ensure that you
spread your Collaboration posts across at least three separate days of each week.
This will help maximise the value of your Collaboration with classmates and
serve to meet the Learning Objectives for each activity.
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Collaboration Forum, click on the "Week 4 Collaboration Forum" link.
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Personal Development Portfolio: Becoming a
researcher
The Personal Development
Portfolio (PDP) provides the framework to help you expand your academic,
professional and career development; build and sustain a personal learning
network; articulate your professional goals; and reflect on your skills through
various strategies and assessments.
In this module there
are two PDP submissions. The first PDP Assignment is due for submission
here in Week 4, and the second PDP Assignment is due for submission in the
final week of the module, Week 8.
Conducting research
and exploring a research topic means dealing with the unknown. Collis and
Hussey (2013) make a good point for students in the early stages of their
research, maintaining that, apart from gaining a reasonable understanding of
your topic, you also need specific skills to overcome the difficulties related
to your research.
To prepare for this
PDP Assignment:
Reflect on the
readings you have encountered in the first 4 weeks of this module.
To complete this PDP
Assignment:
By Day 7 (Wednesday)
Write a critically reflective
paper (500 words) considering the following:
How has the
information that you have discussed in class, researched and read helped you to
understand the practice of academic research and the type of research skills
that you have developed over your previous modules?
·
Have your ideas and views
of academic research changed?
·
How has your understanding
of academic research and your own ability to conduct research developed?
·
How will you apply what
you have learnt so far when conducting future research?
By Day 7 (Wednesday),
submit your Personal Development Portfolio to the Turnitin Link provided.
This Assignment is
not graded, but you will receive feedback from your Instructor to help you
improve your work. Please take advantage of this opportunity to learn from your
Instructor's feedback. Give the Assignment your full effort and ask for
clarification on any feedback you do not understand.
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initial response to Turnitin, click on the "View/Complete" link for Week
4 Personal Development Portfolio -- Turnitin - FF.
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Week 5 Assessments
This week:
By Day 3 (Saturday), submit your Key Concept Exercise
to Turnitin
By Day 3 (Saturday), post your Key Concept Exercise to
the Collaboration Forum
By Day 7 (Wednesday), respond to your colleagues’ in
the Collaboration Forum
Key Concept Exercise: Review of quantitative research design
Inferential statistical methods are widely used in
research in order to conduct tests of differences for dependent or independent
samples, analyse associations between different types of variables and
establish relationships using models between dependent and independent
variable(s).
For this week's Key Concept Exercise you will evaluate
examples of inferential statistical analysis by discussing empirical results
and the strengths, weakness and suitability of different statistical estimation
and hypothesis testing procedures.
To prepare for this Key Concept Exercise:
Read the Required Learning Resources for Week 5.
It is strongly recommended that you work through the
Week 5 Test Your Knowledge Questions and while undertaking your reading. These
are located with the Week 5 Learning Resources.
To complete this Key Concept Exercise:
By Day 3 (Saturday)
In approximately 500 words, answer TWO of the FOUR
questions in the file provided here on Inferential Statistical Analysis:
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By Day 3 (Saturday), submit your Key Concept Exercise
to the Turnitin Link provided.
Be sure to read over your Key Concept Exercise before
submitting it to your Instructor. Make sure the spelling and grammar are
correct and the language, citing and referencing you use when providing your
opinion are appropriate for academic writing.
To submit your Key Concept Exercise to Turnitin, click
the "View/Complete" link for Week 5 Key Concept Exercise -- Turnitin.
Collaboration: Conducting inferential statistical
analysis
In your Collaboration you will further discuss
statistical analysis with your classmates.
In examining the different inferential statistical
methods, consider their fundamental characteristics, underlying assumptions,
strengths, weakness and suitability for producing generalisations regarding an
unbeknown population.
To prepare for this Collaboration:
Review the required Learning Resources and your Key
Concept Exercise from Week 5
To complete this Collaboration:
By Day 3 (Saturday)
Post your Key Concept Exercise from Week 5 to the
Collaboration Forum.
Day 7 (Wednesday)
Post 3-5 replies to your classmates’ posts in the
Collaboration Forum by:
Providing constructive critique on your classmates’
submissions by analysing further the fundamental characteristics of the
inferential statistical methods.
Discussing critically the purposes and wider issues
when conducting statistical analyses.
Analysing the suitability of the inferential
statistical methods by highlighting their strengths and limitations, with
emphasis put on your research plans.
Ensure that you spread your collaboration posts across
at least three separate days of each week. This will help maximise
the value of your collaboration with classmates and serve to meet the learning
objectives for each activity.
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Week 6 Assessments
This week:
By Day 3 (Saturday),
submit your Key Concept Exercise to Turnitin
By Day 3 (Saturday),
post your Key Concept Exercise to the Collaboration Forum
By Day 7 (Wednesday),
respond to your colleagues’ in the Collaboration Forum
Key Concept Exercise: Following qualitative
research design
For this Key Concept
Exercise, you will recommend a qualitative research design.
In the previous two
weeks, you tailored your original research topic specifically to consider a
quantitative design.
Following this week’s
introduction and further reading exercises on qualitative research, return back
to these initial ideas and recommend a qualitative research design that aligns
with the topic under investigation, taking into account the main advantages and
disadvantages as well as the main feasibility constraints and your own personal
skills.
To prepare for this
Key Concept Exercise:
Read the required
Learning Resources for Week 6
Return to your chosen
research topic-problem identified in Week 1 (as subsequently amended) and
consider a qualitative approach
To complete this Key
Concept Exercise:
By Day 3 (Saturday)
In approximately 500
words, explain how your research ideas could take the shape of a qualitative
research project.
In formulating your
Key Concept Exercise, consider the following questions:
·
Which qualitative
methodology would be most suited to your research paradigm?
·
In what way could you
contextualise your research from a qualitative perspective?
·
Which sampling methods
would be most valuable for your data collection?
·
What are the key
differences in planning your research from a quantitative and qualitative
perspective?
By Day 3 (Saturday),
submit your Key Concept Exercise to the Turnitin Link provided.
Be sure to read over
your Key Concept Exercise before submitting it to your Instructor. Make sure
the spelling and grammar are correct and the language, citing and referencing
you use when providing your opinion are appropriate for academic writing.
To submit your Key
Concept Exercise to Turnitin, click the "View/Complete" link for Week
6 Key Concept Exercise -- Turnitin.
Collaboration: The pros and cons of
qualitative research
The emphasis of this
week’s Collaboration is on the importance of qualitative research and your
ability to select the appropriate methodologies for the collection of the
necessary data.
It is important that
you highlight the main issues involved in qualitative methodologies.
Furthermore, you will try to tease out the strengths and weaknesses of
different methods of data collection and sample selection.
To prepare for this
Collaboration:
Review the relevant
required Learning Resources and your Key Concept Exercise from Week 6.
To complete this
Collaboration:
Day 3 (Saturday)
Post your Key Concept
Exercise from Week 6 to the Collaboration Forum.
By Day 7 (Wednesday)
Post 3-5 replies to
your classmates’ posts in the Collaboration Forum by:
Providing
constructive critique on the scope and significance of qualitative research
Identifying
alternative methods that might more effectively enable them to achieve their
aims
Discussing the role
of the researcher in qualitative research design and method selection
Ensure that you
spread your collaboration posts across at least three separate days of each week.
This will help maximise the value of your collaboration with classmates and
serve to meet the learning objectives for each activity.
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Week 7 Assessments
This week:
By Day 3 (Saturday), submit your Key Concept Exercise
to Turnitin
By Day 3 (Saturday), post your Key Concept Exercise to
the Collaboration Forum
By Day 7 (Wednesday), respond to your colleagues’ in
the Collaboration Forum
By Day 7 (Wednesday), submit your Individual
Assignment to Turnitin
Key Concept Exercise: Review of qualitative research design
While neither quantitative nor qualitative approaches
can be considered completely without bias, qualitative methodologies and
methods are, by far, the more subjective of the two.
In all research, the presence of the researcher, their
choices and their interpretations, have a bearing on the work undertaken and
data collection methods chosen.
Qualitative researchers have a greater level of
involvement drawing on their own backgrounds, experiences and perceptions in
their interpretation of the data collected. Qualitative research, therefore,
has a degree of ‘built-in’ bias which should be acknowledged in a research
study.
To prepare for this Key Concept Exercise:
Read the Required Learning Resources for Week 7
Return to your qualitative research designs from last
week
To complete this Key Concept Exercise:
By Day 3 (Saturday)
In approximately 500 words
·
Critically reflect on the
types of qualitative data collection methods that you could use in your
research, considering their benefits and limitations.
·
Consider how you might
overcome the challenges that you may encounter when implementing research
using qualitative methodology, including the management and analysis of data.
By Day 3 (Saturday), submit your Key Concept Exercise
to the Turnitin Link provided.
Be sure to read over your Key Concept Exercise before
submitting it to your Instructor. Make sure the spelling and grammar are
correct and the language, citing and referencing you use when providing your
opinion are appropriate for academic writing.
To submit your Key Concept Exercise to Turnitin, click
the "View/Complete" link for Week 7 Key Concept Exercise -- Turnitin.
Collaboration: Conducting qualitative analysis
This week you will discuss the different qualitative
data analysis techniques recognising potential weaknesses as well as the main
validity and reliability concerns.
To prepare for this Collaboration:
Review the Required Learning Resources and your Key
Concept Exercise from Week 7.
To complete this Collaboration:
By Day 3 (Saturday)
Post your Key Concept Exercise from Week 7 to the
Collaboration Forum.
By Day 7 (Wednesday)
Post 3-5 replies to your classmates’ posts in the
Collaboration Forum by:
Discussing critically the purposes and key issues when
conducting qualitative data analyses
Exploring the main data quality issues related to
validity, reliability, and generalisability
Proposing ways to overcome data quality issues
Highlighting possible ethical issues and feasibility
constraints with the collection of primary qualitative data
Ensure that you spread your collaboration posts across
at least three separate days of each week. This will help maximise
the value of your collaboration with classmates and serve to meet the learning
objectives for each activity.
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Individual Assignment: Progressing with your research project
This week, you will complete the second of two
Individual Assignments, the first of which was undertaken in Week 3. The
Individual Assignments are designed to develop your skills at applying the
knowledge gained in the module to the development of a potential future
proposal for a research project.
Once you have established the research topic and
framed your research question(s) you will need to consider how you will tackle
these questions. This involves taking decisions related to the methodology to
be followed as well as the chosen methods for data collection and analysis
(quantitative or qualitative).
To prepare for this Individual Assignment:
Review your Week 3 Individual Assignment and
Instructor feedback.
Consider how you may develop your ideas further,
including epistemological stance, methodology, validity and reliability of the
research design, data collection methods, sampling techniques, participant
profile, data access, and ethics.
To complete this Individual Assignment:
By Day 7 (Wednesday)
Prepare a report of approximately 1,500 words in which
you:
Discuss your chosen methodology and method for the
collection of your data
Indicate which methodology (such as survey, case
study, action research) you wish to employ and why
Explain how this is consistent with your
epistemological stance
Discuss the threats to validity and reliability
contained in this research design
Describe the data collection method(s) you will use
(such as questionnaire, interviews, focus groups), and justify how these will
be sufficient to answer your research question
Describe your sampling technique and the reasons for
the profile of your respondents when collecting primary data
What are the problems that you may encounter in
gaining access to your data? Provide strategies that can be useful to help you
solve these problems
Are there any ethical issues that you need to
consider?
Provide a brief discussion on how you plan to analyse
your data and the tools that you may need for a proper analysis based on your
method
By Day 7 (Wednesday), submit your Individual
Assignment to the Turnitin Link provided.
Be sure to read over your Individual Assignment before
submitting it to your Instructor. Make sure the spelling and grammar are
correct and the language, citing and referencing you use when providing your
opinion are appropriate for academic writing.
This assignment is graded. See the rubric for specific
grading criteria.
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Week 8 Assessments
This week:
By Day 3 (Saturday),
submit your Key Concept Exercise to Turnitin
By Day 3 (Saturday),
post your Key Concept Exercise to the Collaboration Forum
By Day 7 (Wednesday),
respond to your colleagues’ in the Collaboration Forum
By Day 7 (Wednesday),
submit your Personal Development Portfolio
By Day 7 (Wednesday),
submit your UoL Satisfaction Survey
Key Concept Exercise: Following mixed
methods research design
Mixed methods
research provides a new way for some researchers to tackle a complicated
research problem.
The key purpose is to
investigate the problem by using the advantages of both quantitative and
qualitative methods to enrich the approach. However, at the same time, it
requires knowledge of both methods of data collection and analysis and a good
reason for the choices made.
For this week’s Key
Concept Exercise, you will consider whether a mixed method would fit (or not)
your research topic-problem and the anticipated barriers to data integration.
To prepare for this
Key Concept Exercise:
Read the Required
Learning Resources for Week 8.
Return to your chosen
research topic-problem identified in Week 1 (as subsequently amended) and
consider whether a mixed methods approach would be appropriate and why
To complete this Key
Concept Exercise:
By Day 3 (Saturday)
In approximately 500
words, explain why mixed methods might fit (or not) your research project.
In formulating your
Key Concept Exercise, consider the following questions:
What are the
strengths and weaknesses of your chosen method?
Critically analyse
the reasons why you would proceed (or not) with the adoption of mixed methods
What are the barriers
to data integration which you would expect at this stage of the research?
What are the
potential limitations and problems associated with adopting a mixed methods
approach for a relatively short research project – for example, a dissertation
of 9 months’ duration?
By Day 3 (Saturday),
submit your Key Concept Exercise to the Turnitin Link provided.
Be sure to read over
your Key Concept Exercise before submitting it to your Instructor. Make sure
the spelling and grammar are correct and the language, citing and referencing
you use when providing your opinion are appropriate for academic writing.
To submit your Key
Concept Exercise to Turnitin, click the "View/Complete" link for Week
8 Key Concept Exercise -- Turnitin.
Collaboration: Integrating qualitative and
quantitative data
For your
Collaboration, you further discuss mixed methods with your classmates.
In examining the
suitability of mixed methods for your research project, consider the type and
sources of data that would be needed and the benefits, if any, as well as the
expected limitations related mainly to the additional resources, skills and
robust data integration that are required.
To prepare for this
Collaboration:
Review the Required
Learning Resources and your Key Concept Exercise from Week 8.
To complete this
Collaboration:
By Day 3 (Saturday)
Post your Key Concept
Exercis fie from Week 8 to the Collaboration Forum.
By Day 7 (Wednesday)
Post 3-5 replies to
your classmates’ posts in the Collaboration Forum by:
Providing
constructive critique on the scope and significance of mixed methods designs
Highlighting possible
ethical issues and feasibility constraints with the collection of mixed methods
data
Explaining the most
important barriers to integration of qualitative and quantitative data
Ensure that
you spread your collaboration posts across at least three separate days
of each week. This will help maximise the value of your collaboration
with classmates and serve to meet the learning objectives for each activity.
To access the
Collaboration Forum, click on the "Week 8 Collaboration Forum" link.
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Personal Development Portfolio: Reflective
paper
How has your
understanding of your research study changed since this module started? This
week, you will reflect on the basic research principles and knowledge that you
have acquired in this module.
This final PDP
Assignment aims to build on the knowledge from the module and apply this to the
real world.
This Research Methods
module has provided you with an understanding of the principles and skills
needed in order to design and conduct business management research.
This week’s Personal
Development Portfolio activity will enable you to reflect on your learning and
experiences. You will consider how these concepts will apply to the next step,
whether this is relating to academic research project or any other research
that you may undertake for the investigation of a business problem in your
professional context.
To prepare for this
PDP Assignment:
Reflect on the
readings you have encountered in the 8 weeks of this module
Revisit your PDP
submission in Week 4
To complete this PDP
Assignment:
By Day 7 (Wednesday)
Write a critically
reflective paper (1,000 words):
In completing the
PDP, now in Week 8 reconsider the questions posed in Week 4:
·
How has the information
that you have discussed across the entire class, researched and read helped you
to understand the practice of academic research and the type of research skills
that you have developed over your previous modules?
·
Have your ideas and views
of academic research now changed?
·
How has your understanding
of academic research and your own ability to conduct research developed?
·
How will you apply what
you have learnt so far and overall when conducting future research?
Additionally,
consider:
·
What is the importance of
ethical conduct in research, and how might this influence any potential, future
research projects that you undertake?
By Day 7 (Wednesday),
submit your Personal Development Portfolio to the Turnitin Link provided.
This assignment is
graded. See the rubric for specific grading criteria.
To submit your
initial response to Turnitin, click on the "View/Complete" link for Week
8 Personal Development Portfolio -- Turnitin.
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