ED4U008 - Dissertation 01 Sep 2022 - 31 Aug 2028 | Version 3

Associated Module Information

Module Code: ED4U008
Module Title: Dissertation
Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences and Education
Faculty Group: Professional Learning in Education
Faculty Sub Group: Social Work
Module Leader: Matthew Hutt, Elsa Torres
Module Team: Carmel Conn, Rebecca Haycock, Yasmeen Multani, Bethan Mitchell, Gareth Dart, Priscilla Shen, Jolene Pang, Hamadatun Yusuf
First Intended Intake: SEP 2017 Final Year of Intake: 2022
Date Closed:
Credit Value: 30 Credit Level: 7
Language: English
Percentage of Module Taught in Welsh: 0
Equivalent Module:
HECOS codes: 100459 - education studies
HECOS Code Weighting: 100

Document Version Information

Version 3
Valid From 01 Sep 2022
Valid To 31 Aug 2028

Module Aims

This module aims to support students to:
1. Plan and conduct a small-scale piece of research/enquiry that is relevant to their educational practice.
2. Engage critically and ethically with research design and data collection processes.
3. Critically appraise contemporary research methodologies and enquiry approaches within the social sciences
4. Undertake a piece of empirical investigation independently.
5. Present their research in different forms and to different audiences.
6. Refine their research skills so that they can independent research and lead others through an enquiry/research process.

Content Summary

• Problematising practice and using evidence to explore an area of professional practice
• Engaging with a relevant international literature and writing a literature review
• Ethical requirements and expectations of educational research and enquiry.
• Research methodologies, methods, and data collection approaches of relevance to educational practice.
• Data collection protocols and data analysis processes (qualitative and quantitative methods)
• Data reduction, data interpretation and data representation.
• Presenting and disseminating research to a range of audiences.

Learning and Teaching Methods

Activity Type Hours
Project supervision 10
Independent Study 590
Total Hours Selected 600

Learning Outcomes

Module Requisites

N/A

Assessment Criteria

Assessment Matrix

Reading List