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Unit Synopsis
This unit equips you with the essential knowledge, skills and techniques for planning, designing, and conducting a research project in the context of project management discipline. This unit provides a systematic approach to the planning required during the initial stages of your research project. You will develop the necessary competencies to identify a research gap and articulate research questions. You will learn how to identify and review credible literature. You will consider qualitative and quantitative approaches, and justify the most appropriate method for your project with the final outcome of the unit being the development of a full research proposal. This unit helps you develop a detailed and rigorous research project plan for the investigative study that may be undertaken in the research stream.
Details
| Level | Postgraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 9 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 4 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Pre-requisite: PPMP20007 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 |
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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 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 Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Written Assessment | 40% |
| 2. Written Assessment | 40% |
| 3. Online Quiz(zes) | 20% |
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%).
Past Exams
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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.
Source: SUTE Teacher Report
The lecturer is commended for his exceptional approach, fostering discipline and encouraging student engagement through interactive tools like Mentimeter. His clarity in explanation and attentiveness to student queries are highly valued.
Continue using Mentimeter in all classes as it facilitates more student interaction and engagement.
This experience was passed to the lecturer of the unit for the following term and applied to other units.
Source: SUTE Unit Comments
The unit is well-structured and is deemed to be beneficial for the core research component of the Master's program. However, there is an observation that the number of lecture slides provided can be excessive at times.
Ensure that the teaching team is only using Mentimeter slides in all lectures not the lecture notes.
The Unit Coordinator advised revision of specific lecture slides to reduce the unnecessary text and to keep the students focused. The Mentimeter is used as a supporting teaching material to enhance interaction and engagement in the class.
Source: SUTE Unit Comments
Group formation based on given topics should take place at the beginning of the term so students can work on the same research topic when undertaking individualised and group assessments.
Allow students to enrol in groups at the beginning of the term based on the assigned research topics for each group.
This was considered as a recommendation to inform students to start forming groups on Moodle from Week 1.
Source: Direct meeting with the students during the term
The due dates for assessments caused unnecessary stress to the students. They needed to be rescheduled.
The due dates should be revised to distribute the load evenly over the weeks. Also, the number of assessments should be revised by merging them together and minimising the effort required to achieve the learning outcomes.
In Progress
Source: SUTE and Direct meetings with the students during the term
Requirements of the assessments were not fully clear.
More emphasis should be given to elucidating the assessment requirements at the early stages of the term.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Apply project management processes, tools and techniques in articulating, designing and planning for the execution of a research project
- Develop and employ ethical practices that consider social, cultural and legal responsibilities of researchers
- Conduct a literature search to identify a problem that warrants research within the project management context
- Select appropriate research approaches, methods and skills for solving the research problem
- Prepare a research proposal with necessary components that describe an organised, coherent and convincing statement of the research intent, significance and strategies to conduct the research.
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment | • | • | |||
| 2 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | ||
| 3 - Online Quiz(zes) | • | • | • | • | • |
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | • | • | • | • | • |
| 2 - Communication | • | • | |||
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | • | • | • | • | |
| 4 - Research | • | • | • | • | • |
| 5 - Self-management | • | • | • | • | |
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | • | • | • | • | |
| 7 - Leadership | • | • | • | ||
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| 1 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | ||
| 2 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | ||
| 3 - Online Quiz(zes) | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | ||