Unit information: Published Work (Single Unit) in 2011/12

Unit name	Published Work (Single Unit)
Unit code	EDUCD0077
Credit points	20
Level of study	D/8
Teaching block(s)	Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52)
Unit director	Professor. Baird
Open unit status	Not open
Pre-requisites	Understanding Educational Research
Co-requisites	Candidates are not normally permitted to gain more than 40 credits towards their award from any combination of published work or special individual study.
School/department	School of Education
Faculty	Faculty of Social Sciences and Law

Description including Unit Aims

This unit provides participants with the opportunity to present published work for assessment alongside scholarly reflections on issues involved in writing the published work as an opportunity for reflective evaluation. The self-assessment might be informed by making presentations on the work in any appropriate setting(s). The assessed piece of work will consist of the publication and a commentary. The selected publication must be one that has been published in the preceding five years. A proposal will have to be submitted to judge if the published work meets the specified criteria and sufficiently meets significant aspects of the aims of the programme.

Aims:

The unit aims to provide students with the opportunity to:

• Present suitable short publications for assessment by self and academic staff

• Engage in the issues involved in evaluating a publication produced for professional and academic purposes

• Develop a self-assessment

• Consider feedback elicited by the publication and associated presentations or other means of dissemination.

Intended Learning Outcomes

The learning outcomes achieved by a successful candidate will be:

• Carefully considered self-evaluation of one of the student’s own publications presented in an appropriate, scholarly manner

• Engagement with the complex issues of evaluating publications

• Evaluation of intended and achieved objectives of the research

• Engagement with any responses to the publication and the development of considered responses

• An ability to audit relevant presentation skills and identify areas requiring further professional or personal development.

Teaching Information

Tutorials, individual and group seminars, student presentation to departmental research seminars and doctoral conference.

Assessment Information

A written assessment composed of a published paper (of at least 2,000 words) and a commentary of 2,000 words. Work presented for this unit must be substantially different from that presented for any other unit. For example, a publication based on an earlier assignment may not be presented for a second time in order to gain further credit. Guidelines on the submission of a multiply authored paper will be used, to ensure that the amount of credit given is based upon verifiable contribution by the candidate.

Reading and References

Dependent upon the area of focus.