Prerequisite
n/a
Description
This course addresses educational research approaches specifically in the health professions. It involves a critical examination of appropriate literature with respect to survey, qualitative and quantitative research methods with the objective of enabling students to propose implementable research projects.
Objectives
- Describe common research areas and approaches in HPER
- Situate their own research interests in a domain (including philosophical, underpinnings, relevant literatures and commonly used methodologies)
- Understand the process of planning and designing common research methodologies in HPER
Instructors
Evaluation
The assessment for the course will consist of:
- Participation in class discussion & group work (based on assigned readings)
- 10%
- Discussion Paper (2000 words)
- 25%
- Paper of the Decade (1500 – 2000 words)
- 20%
- Editorial Response (max 500 words)
- 5%
- Research Proposal (max 3 pages single spaced)
- 30%
- Debate
- 10%