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Research Project in Elective Studies 1 - SAED9018
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Campus: College of Fine Arts Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 1.5
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
  

Description

This course aims to enable students to prepare a proposal for art educational research into a chosen specialisation in art education. Course content will include a review of major factors entailed in - historical, descriptive, experimental, and philosophical methods; literature reviews including - computer-assisted searches and descriptors, annotations, abstracts; instrumentation and data collection, qualitative and quantitative methods, the pilot study, sampling, research evaluation; introduction to descriptive, analytical, and interpretative approaches to the statistical measures of central tendency, variability, correlation, probability, frequency; qualitative measures of conceptual and structural analysis, auditing, triangulation; proposal writing, framing a question, setting the limitations of the study.

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