EDF5614 Research project in education
Faculty of Education
EDF5614 Research project in education is a level 5, 12-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Education. It isn't offered in 2025. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 12
- Offered in 2025
- Other periods
- Clayton
- Assessment
- No exam
- 1 task
- Workload
- 288 hours
- per semester
This is the 2025 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before EDF5614
Corequisites
Pass these before, or take them in the same semester.
After EDF5614
No unit lists EDF5614 as a prerequisite in the 2025 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Corequisite
Must be enrolled in a course owned by Faculty of Education
Overview
This unit extends the work done in EDF5613 and provides support for you to develop, carry out and write up a short research project in education, or a related discipline. During the course, group supervision (working together with an experienced supervisor) will be arranged and you will undertake a small-scale research project of up to 10,000 words. The scope of research topics will depend on available teaching staff. Unit staff will guide you through the development, implementation, data collection, and writing up of your project. Through the research project, you are required to demonstrate competence in understanding and conducting research in a field of study. This will be guided by methodological interests identified in EDF5613 (e.g. survey, case study, discourse analysis, narrative inquiry, practitioner research).
Offerings in 2025
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Term 2 | Clayton | Flx blk |
| Term 4 | Clayton | Flx blk |
Assessment
- Research report (10,000 words)Written100%
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
locate a research concern within a relevant body of academic scholarship
- 2
review the research literature in a particular field
- 3
design an appropriately scoped research project, based on sound methodological choices
- 4
conduct a small-scale research project in a selected research methodology
- 5
use research processes with due regard to ethical procedures and academic conventions
- 6
demonstrate a capacity to engage in reflective, critical discussion of the relevant research area.
Workload and teaching
- Tutorials36 hours
- Teaching approachResearch activities
The minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 288 hours per teaching period comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study.
Usually, you can expect to engage with:
• 18 hours of scheduled learning delivered on campus via weekly/regular directed learning activities, 18 hours of scheduled learning delivered online via a combination of synchronous and asynchronous directed learning activities and the remaining hours to be allocated towards self-directed/independent study;
OR
• 18 hours of scheduled learning delivered synchronously online, and 18 hours of scheduled learning delivered online via a combination of synchronous and asynchronous directed learning activities and the remaining hours to be allocated towards self-directed/independent study^
^ International students studying in Australia are not permitted to undertake this scheduled learning delivery mode
Scheduled learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.
The teaching and learning in this unit is focused around your experience of enacting an independent, sustained and cohesive research study of your own choosing and your submission of a 10,000 - 12,000 word report of that study. The teaching approaches are balanced between whole-group, face-to-face, interactive classes, smaller group meetings, and collaborative online activities (on Moodle). Each group will be led by two experienced researchers and a high performing PhD student. These three people constitute a form of supervision team, who will guide you through the development, planning, data generation, analysis, and writing dimensions of your project.
Learning resources
Recommended resources
Please visit the unit Moodle site for further information.
Where it fits
EDF5614 is part of 4 areas of study in the 2025 handbook.
- DIGLEARN01Pathway to graduate research (optional)Digital learningNo reviews yet
- EARCHILD01Pathway to graduate research (optional)Early childhood educationNo reviews yet
- GENEDSTU01Pathway to graduate research (optional)General education studiesNo reviews yet
- INSPECED01Pathway to graduate research (optional)Inclusive and special educationNo reviews yet
Contacts
- Unit Coordinators
- Professor Graham Parr
- Dr Marc Pruyn
- Chief Examiners
- Professor Richard Pringle
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for EDF5614?
None, but you must take EDF5613 before or alongside it.
When is EDF5614 offered?
EDF5614 has no offerings listed in the 2025 handbook.
How much work is EDF5614?
The handbook expects about 288 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.
Does EDF5614 have an exam?
No. EDF5614 has 1 assessment task and no exam.
Which majors and minors include EDF5614?
EDF5614 is part of Digital learning; Early childhood education; General education studies; and Inclusive and special education.