MEduc Professional Enquiry And Decision Making EDUC51027

  • Academic Session: 2024-25
  • School: School of Education
  • Credits: 30
  • Level: Level 5 (SCQF level 11)
  • Typically Offered: Semester 1
  • Available to Visiting Students: No
  • Collaborative Online International Learning: No

Short Description

This course comprises a series of Q-step lectures and seminars to support professional decision making alongside professional enquiry seminars which develop an increased depth of students critical understanding of approaches to professional enquiry. This an SCQF level 11 course and as such PEDM helps students develop an extensive, detailed and critical knowledge and understanding of forms of professional enquiry which are at the forefront of teacher professionalism through consolidating and extend knowledge, skills, practices and thinking around an ethical enquiry stance developed through CE1-4. In applying this knowledge students will demonstrate originality and/or creativity. In preparation for the major dissertation this course increases the level of demand of asynchronous work expected by students in preparation for the independent work of the dissertation.

Timetable

Not known.

Requirements of Entry

Satisfactory completion of all elements of MEduc Year 4.

Excluded Courses

N/A

Co-requisites

N/A

Assessment

This course will be assessed by a 4000-word written assignment which is a patch-work text.

 

Students will be offered the opportunity to indicate the areas in which feedback would most benefit them (within the existing framework of marking criteria).

Main Assessment In: April/May

Course Aims

The purpose of this course is three fold. Firstly, it prepares students in greater depth than CE1-CE4 to undertake a range of forms of professional enquiry to allow them to confidently enquire into their practice throughout their career. Secondly, it supports students to develop their research literacy and data interpretation skills to ensure that the decisions they make about their practice are evidence informed and well founded. Thirdly, taken together these first two aims will prepare students to undertake their major dissertation in semester 2.

Intended Learning Outcomes of Course

By the end of this course students will be able to:

1. Design and justify an appropriate methodology for professional enquiry as an insider researcher.

2. Demonstrate skills of research literacy and data interpretation through making and justifying educational decisions.

3. Interrogate the ethical issues associated with a newly qualified teacher undertaking a distinctive form of practitioner enquiry as an insider researcher.

Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits

See generic Masters regulations.