Postgraduate Course: EdD Thesis Preparation Programme (REDU12006)

Course Outline
School	Moray House School of Education and Sport	College	College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 12 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	In the final stage of the EdD programme, candidates will undertake an individual, supervised study leading to the presentation of a thesis of between 45,000 to 75,000 words. This is a major study demanding a high level of individual application and commitment to research and enquiry. It provides the opportunity to identify, reflect on and explore a topic that meets the requirements, in every respect, for doctoral level work. The Thesis Preparation course runs over one year normally taken in the second and third years of the taught programme. It is important to stress that students will have already undertaken extensive study on topics related to research in education and that this is not a self-contained research methods course. Building on the preceding taught elements concerned with methodology, methods and research design, it will prepare students to undertake independent research and writing of a doctoral thesis. The course has a strong emphasis on practical aspects of doctoral research but also includes theoretical elements intended to help students develop their research proposals and prepare to undertake the thesis stage.
Course description	Not entered

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: Justify a proposed research design, recognising and taking account of practical and methodological problems. Demonstrate understanding of data-gaterhing issues using quantitative or qualitative methods. Demonstrate that the proposed research is ethically defensible, and that appropriate ethical approval procedures are undertaken. Explain how the data to be collected will be analysed. Demonstrate the contribution should make to knowledge in terms of theory, empirical understanding, professional practice or in other ways.