This unit aims to enhance your educational leadership capability and educational innovation through an in-depth investigation into a problem of professional relevance. You will critically review contemporary literature and analyse and apply relevant methodological approaches to your research. Drawing on this, you will develop, implement and report upon a research project related to leading educational change.
Level | Postgraduate |
---|---|
Unit Level | 8 |
Credit Points | 6 |
Student Contribution Band | 7 |
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Pre-requisite of successful completion of EDED20497 Leadership in the Educational Context AND Co-requisite of EDED20498 and EDED20499 for the School Leadership Major OR Co-requisite of EDED20506 and EDED20507 (Disability and Inclusive Education Major) OR Co-requisite of EDED20509 and EDED20508 (Early Childhood Education Major) OR Co-requisite of EDED20510 and EDED20511 (STEM Major) 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). |
Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
Residential School | No Residential School |
Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Assessment Task | Weighting |
---|---|
1. Written Assessment | 50% |
2. Research Assignment | 50% |
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%).
All University policies are available on the Policy web site, however you may wish to directly view the following policies below.
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of policies are available on the Policy web site .
Term 2 - 2021 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 5 (on a 5 point Likert scale), based on a 50% response rate.
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.
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
1 - Written Assessment | • | • | ||
2 - Research Assignment | • | • | • | • |
Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
1 - Knowledge | • | • | • | • |
2 - Communication | • | • | ||
3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | • | • | • | • |
4 - Research | • | • | • | • |
5 - Self-management | • | • | • | • |
6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | • | • | ||
7 - Leadership | • | • |
Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
1 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | |
2 - Research Assignment | • | • | • | • | • |