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2018/19 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

EDUC5437M Dissertation in Teaching

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 2018/19

Pre-requisites

EDUC5630M	Noticing and Observing for Professional Practice and Learnin
EDUC5631M	Promoting and Assessing Learning in the Classroom

This module is mutually exclusive with

EDUC5633M

Critical Study in Teaching

Module replaces

EDUC 5633M

This module is not approved as an Elective

Objectives

In completing this module students will be able to demonstrate:

- the ability to identify either a topic of immediate individual concern in their own institution or a generic educational topic;
- 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, and, if appropriate, research, on this topic;
- the ability to consider insightfully and critically this topic in a broader perspective, ensuring where appropriate that the experience of more than one school or college 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.

Skills outcomes
Analytical skills
Critical thinking
Ethical awareness
Independent working
Planning & organisation

Syllabus

Through the dissertation students make the link between educational issues of professional concern and research methods.

Students negotiate dissertations on an individual basis. The dissertation is seen as a key component in the process of on-going professional development.

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

Students will be provided with a dissertation distance learning pack, and will attend an introductory seminar and planning session of 5 hours.

As the study progresses, there will be a further supervision tutorials, which may be face-to-face or distance.

Supervision will be organised on an individual basis and additional meetings will be subject to agreement between the tutor and the student.

- Reading to prepare for the study
- Presentation of plans
- Piloting of research tools, gathering data, analysing data, 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 Dissertation.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

- Feedback given on initial proposal and subsequent development of the study.
- Progress monitored through programmed supervision tutorials (including distance).

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

There is no reading list for this module

Last updated: 12/12/2018 16:33:09

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