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Graduate Research Methods (PSYC90029)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 6.25On Campus (Parkville)
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This subject focuses on research skills for students undertaking professional training in psychology. Emphasis is placed on the skills and methods that will assist students in the development and completion of their research thesis. Topics may include: major design and measurement decisions; survey approaches; sampling issues; practical management of research; the development of research proposals and theses; and data analysis options.
Intended learning outcomes
This subject has the following objectives:
- to equip students for critical assessment of research in their professional field of psychology;
- to develop an understanding of the importance of integrating theory, measurement,research design, empirical observation and inference;
- to expose students to a range of data analytic approaches;
- to give students skills and techniques for the development and presentation of their research proposals; and
- to discuss techniques for satisfactory and timely completion of a research thesis.
Generic skills
Written skills
Analytic, information integration and synthesizing skills
Last updated: 3 November 2022