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2021/22 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

EDUC5433M Dissertation

60 creditsClass Size: 30

Module manager: Dr Indira Banner
Email: I.Banner@education.leeds.ac.uk

Taught: 1 Oct to 30 Sep (12mth) View Timetable

Year running 2021/22

Pre-requisites

EDUC5015M	Dev Teac and Learn Through EBP
EDUC5016M	Leading Teaching and Learning Through Evidence -based Practi

This module is mutually exclusive with

EDUC5017M

Critical Study

Module replaces

EDUC 5017M

This module is not approved as an Elective

Objectives

This modules aims to help students to develop:
- an in-depth knowledge and understanding of an aspect of teaching and learning relevant to their professional context
- their skills as practitioner enquirers
- their own professional practice and that of others

Learning outcomes
By engaging successfully with this module students will acquire:
- the ability to identify either a topic of immediate individual concern in their own institution;
- the ability to engage in discussion with a tutor(s) concerning how this topic might be investigated;
- the ability, under supervision, to carry out critical and systematic reading and study, on this topic
- the ability, under supervision, to design and carryout a school-based enquiry on this topic;
- the ability follow guidelines relating to the ethics of professional enquiry;
- the ability to consider insightfully and critically this topic in a broader perspective, ensuring that a range of evidence is considered and that recent evidence/research of the national/local situation is systematically included;
- the ability, under supervision, to write up the study in an appropriate, concise and effective form.
- in-depth critical understanding of the topic investigated
- the ability to disseminate their findings to fellow professionals
- the ability to use the finding of their study to improve their own professional practice and that of others

Skills outcomes
Analytical skills
Communication skills
Initiative
Planning & organisation
Research skills

In addition to the skills listed above students who engaging successfully with this module will be able to exhibit self-direction and effective decision making in complex and unpredictable situations.

Syllabus

The critical study will comprise of an empirical piece of work related to the student's own professional interests (as a teacher) and will be guided by their school's development priorities.

The content of this module is as follows:
- methods and techniques of professional enquiry
- planning and designing an enquiry
- ethical considerations
- analysing and presenting data
- scholarship skills, e.g., critical analysis, academic writing, etc.
- presenting findings and identifying implications for professional practice
- dissemination of findings

Students will be required to audit the module EDUC5060M Getting Started: Research Questions and Approaches in Education or equivalent unless their programme manager or the taught postgraduate tutor believes that they already have sufficient knowledge or skills about research.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
On-line Learning	3	5.00	15.00
Seminar	6	2.00	12.00
Tutorial	2	0.50	1.00
Tutorial	6	1.00	6.00
Private study hours			566.00
Total Contact hours			34.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			600.00

Private study

Private study - the majority of the independent learning time will be spent, reading, planning and carrying out the enquiry, analysing
data and writing up.

The information against seminars in the first line of information against tutorials and the information against the online learning relates
to the work involved in auditing EDUC 5060M. The second line again tutorials relates to supervision of the Critical Study.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Student progress will be monitored by the supervising tutor in the following ways:
- contribution to the lecture and seminars
- contribution to individual tutorials
- progress with the module assignments including draft materials

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Assignment	Dissertation x 12,000 words	100.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 29/04/2022 15:28:42

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