Overview
In this unit, you will work and learn autonomously, demonstrate professional capabilities expected of a graduating industry practitioner, formulate and adhere to a research plan, communicate progress, and prepare interim reports and presentations. You will define and scope a research topic by applying detailed technical knowledge and industry based methodologies, assessing safety and risk factors, preparing a feasible plan and drafting an implementation schedule. The unit will give you an opportunity to develop your personal and interpersonal skills and use effectively different modes of communication. Note: Prior to the commencement of term and before an enrolment can be accepted, you must confirm with the unit coordinator that you have identified a suitable research interest and an academic supervisor is available. Students who have successfully completed BLCN14036 or BLSV14012 should not enrol in this unit.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Pre-requisite Condition: Successfully completed 126 units of credits in the Building Surveying (Honours) or Construction Management (Honours) course.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2020
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 12-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 25 hours of study per week, making a total of 300 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from 'Have Your Say'
Overlapping of assessments was found to be confusing.
Assessments will be revised to ensure clarity of the parts within and assessment information will detail how tasks differ.
Feedback from 'Have you Say'
Inconsistencies between assessments and the unit profile exist.
The assignment will be amended to ensure they accurately reflect the information in the unit profile.
- Formulate and operate a research plan.
- Apply detailed technical knowledge and industry based methodologies, assess safety and risk factors, and prepare a feasible plan and implementation schedule.
- Discover and use information sources and technology to collect, analyse and interpret data, notes and references.
- Practice personal and interpersonal skills.
- Use effectively different modes of communication.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
1 - Presentation and Written Assessment - 30% | |||||
2 - Written Assessment - 30% | |||||
3 - Presentation and Written Assessment - 40% |
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
1 - Communication | |||||
2 - Problem Solving | |||||
3 - Critical Thinking | |||||
4 - Information Literacy | |||||
5 - Team Work | |||||
6 - Information Technology Competence | |||||
7 - Cross Cultural Competence | |||||
8 - Ethical practice | |||||
9 - Social Innovation | |||||
10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures |
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
1 - Presentation and Written Assessment - 30% | ||||||||||
2 - Written Assessment - 30% | ||||||||||
3 - Presentation and Written Assessment - 40% |
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- Headphones or speaker, a microphone
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
r.webber@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Topic 1. Introduction to academic research
Chapter
Refer to the Study Guide available from the first week of the term. Check additional weekly resources and recorded lecture uploaded in the Moodle site of the unit under the section for every week.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Topic 1. Introduction to academic research
Chapter
Refer to the Study Guide available from the first week of the term. Check additional weekly resources and recorded lecture uploaded in the Moodle site of the unit under the section for every week.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Topic 2. Research Design
Chapter
Refer to the Study Guide available from the first week of the term. Check additional weekly resources and recorded lecture uploaded in the Moodle site of the unit under the section for every week.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Topic 2. Research Design
Chapter
Refer to the Study Guide available from the first week of the term. Check additional weekly resources and recorded lecture uploaded in the Moodle site of the unit under the section for every week.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Topic 3. Data collection method
Chapter
Refer to the Study Guide available from the first week of the term. Check additional weekly resources and recorded lecture uploaded in the Moodle site of the unit under the section for every week.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Topic 4. Statistical data analysis
Chapter
Refer to the Study Guide available from the first week of the term. Check additional weekly resources and recorded lecture uploaded in the Moodle site of the unit under the section for every week.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Assignment 1 due on 21 Aug
Literature Review Due: Week 6 Friday (28 Aug 2020) 11:45 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Topic 4. Statistical data analysis
Chapter
Refer to the Study Guide available from the first week of the term. Check additional weekly resources and recorded lecture uploaded in the Moodle site of the unit under the section for every week.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Topic 4: Statistical data analysis-exercise example
Chapter
Refer to the Study Guide available from the first week of the term. Check additional weekly resources and recorded lecture uploaded in the Moodle site of the unit under the section for every week.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Topic 5. Qualitative data analysis
Chapter
Refer to the Study Guide available from the first week of the term. Check additional weekly resources and recorded lecture uploaded in the Moodle site of the unit under the section for every week.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Topic 5. Qualitative data analysis
Chapter
Refer to the Study Guide available from the first week of the term. Check additional weekly resources and recorded lecture uploaded in the Moodle site of the unit under the section for every week.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Topic 6. Writing a research report - putting it all together
Chapter
Refer to the Study Guide available from the first week of the term. Check additional weekly resources and recorded lecture uploaded in the Moodle site of the unit under the section for every week.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Assignment 2 due on 25 Sep
Module/Topic
Topic 6. Writing a research report - putting it all together
Chapter
Refer to the Study Guide available from the first week of the term. Check additional weekly resources and recorded lecture uploaded in the Moodle site of the unit under the section for every week.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
No set topics
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Assignment 3 due on 9 Oct
Research report - data analysis Due: Review/Exam Week Tuesday (13 Oct 2020) 11:45 pm AEST
Module/Topic
No set topics
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
1 Presentation and Written Assessment
The question will be available in week one via the Moodle site. It will be a 3,000-word literature review on a subject of your own choice as agreed with the lecturer. Assessment assignment 30%
Week 6 Friday (28 Aug 2020) 11:45 pm AEST
Submit via turnitin in the course Moodle site as a PDF or Word document
Week 8 Friday (11 Sept 2020)
Results and feedback available via the course Moodle site plus feedback will be emailed to each student
- Formulate and operate a research plan.
- Apply detailed technical knowledge and industry based methodologies, assess safety and risk factors, and prepare a feasible plan and implementation schedule.
- Discover and use information sources and technology to collect, analyse and interpret data, notes and references.
- Practice personal and interpersonal skills.
- Use effectively different modes of communication.
- Formulate and operate a research plan.
- Apply detailed technical knowledge and industry based methodologies, assess safety and risk factors, and prepare a feasible plan and implementation schedule.
- Discover and use information sources and technology to collect, analyse and interpret data, notes and references.
- Practice personal and interpersonal skills.
- Use effectively different modes of communication.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Team Work
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
2 Written Assessment
The question will be available in week one via the Moodle site. It will be a 3,000-word Research methodology on the subject from assignment 1 agreed with the lecturer .Assessment assignment 30%
Week 10 Friday (25 Sept 2020) 11:45 pm AEST
Submit via turnitin in the course Moodle site as a PDF or Word document
Week 12 Friday (9 Oct 2020)
Results and feedback available via the course Moodle site plus feedback will be emailed to each student
- Formulate and operate a research plan.
- Apply detailed technical knowledge and industry based methodologies, assess safety and risk factors, and prepare a feasible plan and implementation schedule.
- Discover and use information sources and technology to collect, analyse and interpret data, notes and references.
- Practice personal and interpersonal skills.
- Use effectively different modes of communication.
- Formulate and operate a research plan.
- Apply detailed technical knowledge and industry based methodologies, assess safety and risk factors, and prepare a feasible plan and implementation schedule.
- Discover and use information sources and technology to collect, analyse and interpret data, notes and references.
- Practice personal and interpersonal skills.
- Use effectively different modes of communication.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
3 Presentation and Written Assessment
The question will be available in week one via the Moodle site. It will be a 3,000-word journal paper on the subject agreed from assignment 1 with the lecturer. Assessment assignment 35%
PowerPoint presentation 5%
Review/Exam Week Tuesday (13 Oct 2020) 11:45 pm AEST
Submit via turnitin in the course Moodle site as a PDF or Word document
Exam Week Friday (23 Oct 2020)
Results and feedback available via the course Moodle site plus feedback will be emailed to each student
- Formulate and operate a research plan.
- Apply detailed technical knowledge and industry based methodologies, assess safety and risk factors, and prepare a feasible plan and implementation schedule.
- Discover and use information sources and technology to collect, analyse and interpret data, notes and references.
- Practice personal and interpersonal skills.
- Use effectively different modes of communication.
- Formulate and operate a research plan.
- Apply detailed technical knowledge and industry based methodologies, assess safety and risk factors, and prepare a feasible plan and implementation schedule.
- Discover and use information sources and technology to collect, analyse and interpret data, notes and references.
- Practice personal and interpersonal skills.
- Use effectively different modes of communication.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.