Module Title
Skills for Research
Keywords
Research skills, systematic review, meta-analysis, meta-synthesis, reliability, validity, crediability |
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Prerequisites for Module
None in addition to course entry requirements.
Corequisite Modules
None.
Precluded Modules
None.
Aims of Module
To demonstrate application of key skills required to collect, analyse and present data within a defined professional context.
Learning Outcomes for Module
On completion of this module, students are expected to be able to:
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Critically review the skills required to undertake data collection and analysis within the specific paradigms relevant to the field of study providing a rationale for the chosen method(s).
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Evaluate the process of establishing validity, reliability and/or creditability of the proposed data collection and analysis methods.
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Appraise, extract and synthesise evidence from qualitative and quantitative studies within the selected professional field.
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Indicative Module Content
Develop data analysis skills congruent with the philosophical underpinning of chosen research design; critical appraisal of selected data collection methods and analysis for qualitative and quantitative research; understand systematic reviews, meta-analysis and meta-synthesis and their impact on evidence-based practice; qualitative research, quantitative research, interview techniques, questionnaire design.
Indicative Student Workload
Contact Hours
| Blended Learning | Lectures Workshops
| 70 | Seminars Supervisory meetings
| 10 |
Directed Study
| | Preparation of reflective accounts
| 90 |
Private Study
| | Reading Sourcing relevant information
| 130 |
| Mode of Delivery
This module will be delivered in a one week block. Delivery will use a Blended Learning approach consisting of lectures, seminars and workshops during the teaching week.
Assessment Plan
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Learning Outcomes Assessed
| | Component 1 | 1,2,3
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Critical reflective portfolio.
Indicative Bibliography
| 1. | Creswell JW (2014). Research design: qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods approaches, fourth edition, SAGE.
| | 2. | Bowling A (2014). Research methods in health [electronic resource]: investigating health and health services, fourth edition, Open University Press
| | 3. | Richards DA (2015). Complex interventions in health [electronic resource]: an overview of research methods, Taylor & Francis
| | 4. | Ritchie J, Lewis J, McNaughton-Nicholls C, Ormston R (2014). Qualitative research practice: a guide for social science students and researchers, second edition, SAGE.
| | 5. | Green J, Thorogood N (2014). Qualitative methods for health research [electronic resource], third edition, SAGE
| | 6. | Cleophas TJM (2016). SPSS for starters and 2nd levellers [electronic resource], Springer
| | 7. | Bettany-Saltikov J (2012). How to do a systematic literature review in nursing [electronic resource] / a step-by-step guide, McGraw-Hill/Open University Press
| | 8. | Akers J et al. CRD’s guidance for undertaking reviews in healthcare. Available from: http://www.york.ac.uk/crd/guidance/
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Additional Notes
A range of general and specific research methods texts are available by searching the RGU library catalogue, and a range of journal articles relevant to the student’s area of enquiry are available by searching relevant databases.
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