Module Descriptors
RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
FORE50228
Key Facts
Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Sciences
Level 5
15 credits
Contact
Leader: Sarah Fieldhouse
Email: S.J.Fieldhouse@staffs.ac.uk
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 24
Independent Study Hours: 126
Total Learning Hours: 150
Assessment
- LITERATURE REVIEW weighted at 40%
- ASSIGNMENT weighted at 20%
- CLASS-TEST weighted at 40%
Module Details
Module Additional Assessment Details
Outcomes 1,2,3,5: Individual literature review of a research topic of approximately 1000 words (40%).
Outcomes 2, 3, 5: A one and a half hour class test (40%)
Outcome 4: Mock job applications, based on CV and covering letter, and mock job interview (20%).
Students will be provided with formative assessment and feedback via blackboard and during tutorial sessions.
Outcomes 2, 3, 5: A one and a half hour class test (40%)
Outcome 4: Mock job applications, based on CV and covering letter, and mock job interview (20%).
Students will be provided with formative assessment and feedback via blackboard and during tutorial sessions.
Module Indicative Content
This module aims to help you develop a wide range of skills in order to enable you to effectively find, evaluate, summarise and present information on designated topics appropriate to your award. You will be given guidance in the effective use of library and IT resources for information retrieval and processing, and in constructing job applications and handling job interviews.
Students will acquire knowledge of a range of statistical tests available for data analysis and learn how to apply and interpret them using statistical packages.
You will also be required to find an advertisement for an appropriate job, and to put together a mock application for the post, based on a CV and covering letter. Part of the assessment will be based on a mock interview for the post.
Students will acquire knowledge of a range of statistical tests available for data analysis and learn how to apply and interpret them using statistical packages.
You will also be required to find an advertisement for an appropriate job, and to put together a mock application for the post, based on a CV and covering letter. Part of the assessment will be based on a mock interview for the post.
Module Learning Strategies
Six one hour interactive lectures in semester one and a one hour lecture in semester two, to present and discuss the information, plus five one hour group tutorials to discuss and analyse the lecture material. Non contact independent study will require extensive reading of literature, and data handling components
Module Resources
Module Handbook, Lecture room equipped with PowerPoint, OHP, White Board, VLE and other Presentation provisions. The use, during tutorial classes, of a computer laboratory with 1 networked PC per student. These PCs will have to be equipped with PASW and/or SPSS and Microsoft Excel, and the same versions of this software will have to be available to the students outside of class time.
Module Special Admissions Requirements
Progress to level 2 of an award in the forensic and crime science subject area.
Module Texts
Report Writing, 2nd Edn, J Van Emden and J Easteal, McGraw-Hill, 1993
Experimental Methods: An Introduction to the Analysis and Presentation of Data, L Kirkup, John Wiley, 1995.
Kinnear, P.R. Gray, C.D. (2011) IBM SPSS 19 Statistics made Simple, New York: Psychology Press
Pallant, J. (2010) SPSS Survival Manual, 4th Edition, New York : McGraw Hill
Experimental Methods: An Introduction to the Analysis and Presentation of Data, L Kirkup, John Wiley, 1995.
Kinnear, P.R. Gray, C.D. (2011) IBM SPSS 19 Statistics made Simple, New York: Psychology Press
Pallant, J. (2010) SPSS Survival Manual, 4th Edition, New York : McGraw Hill