Research Project A (Introduction) Online Course
| Full Fee | $595.00 incl GST - Best Value! |
| Payment Plan | $800.00 incl GST |
Tutor Support Yes unlimited by email
Qualification Certificate
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Course Aims:
- Develop your ability to collect, collate and interpret data and prepare reports in ways relevant to the work environment;
- Monitor and evaluate your own work in order to develop a responsible attitude to workplace performance and quality assurance;
- Determine areas where there is a valid need for research which are relevant to area of study;
- Explain research methods, including experimental techniques, commonly used in your discipline.
- Understand of the basic statistical methods used for research;
- Locate, collect and evaluate information for a specific research purpose;
- Prepare a research report in a format which conforms to normal industry procedures.
Detailed Course Outline
There are 7 lessons in this course:
Determining Research Needs
- Introduction
- Identifying research needs
- The research goal
- The research question
- Other questions to clarify the research goal
- Sources of information
- What information is required
- Depth and breadth of data
- Constraining factors: time, resources
Searching For Information
- Kind of exploratory research
- Primary data research
- Literary reviews
- Research objectives
Research Methods
- Research terminology
- Experimentation
- A controlled environment
- Other field trial considerations
- Steps in collection and analysis of data
- Setting up a comparison trial
- Running the trial
- Evaluating the trial
- Interviewing skills
- Procedure
- Asking questions
- Types of questions
- Ways of handling difficult questions
Using Statistics
- Introduction
- Official statistics
- Reasons for using statistics
- Disadvantages of statistics
- Issues to consider
- Descriptive statistics
- Observed and expected rates
- Confidence intervals
- Standardizing
- Conducting Statistical Research
- Reliability of statistics
- Presenting statistics: pie charts, bar charts, histograms
- Descriptive statistics: mean, median, mode, variation, standard deviation, etc
- Correlation, Probability
Research Reports
- Collecting quantitative data
- Conducting a survey
- Procedure for designing a survey
- Forms of data
- Planning a formal survey
- Designing a questionnaire
- Common problems
Research Reporting
- Report writing tips
- Structure of a report
- The report outline
- Research papers
- Referencing
Reporting On A Research Project
- A practical project involving construction of a proper research report
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Our science courses are taught by a range of different tutors depending on the area of expertise. We have specialised tutors in environmental science, animal (veterinary) science, human nutrition and health science and so on. At enrollment you will be assigned your tutor who is an expert in that field. You will receive a welcome email from them within 1 - 2 days of enrollment so you will be able to contact them as soon as you need to.
Some subjects such as biochemistry are an integral part of many sciences including animal (veterinary science), human health science and many parts of environmental science. We have many experienced tutors who are qualified to teach introductory biochemistry. Depending upon your particular interest in biochemistry we will assign a tutor in the appropriate field at enrollment.
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