Research Project C (Research Skills) Online Course
| Full Fee | $595.00 incl GST - Best Value! |
| Payment Plan | $800.00 incl GST |
Exam Optional
Tutor Support Yes unlimited by email
Course Aims:
- Analyse current industry procedures to determine possible areas for improvement or innovation.
- Plan research on the development of innovative approaches for improving a commercial work procedure.
- Conduct detailed research into the viability of alternative innovative approaches to a commercial work procedure.
- Conduct detailed research into the viability of alternative, innovative approaches to a commercial work procedures.
- Develop an improved approach to a workplace procedure based on results of research.
Detailed Course Outline
There are 5 Lessons in this course:
Determining Research Priorities
- Beginning your research
- Brainstorming
- How to brainstorm
- Basic steps for brainstorming
- Terminology
Planning Research Improvement
- Overview
- Mind maps
- How to mind map
- Concept mapping
- Flow diagrams
- Analytical procedures
- Terminology
Testing the Viability of Alternative Approaches
- Research design
- Major types of research design
- Action research
- Fishbone diagrams
- Lateral thinking
- Lateral thinking techniques
- Pareto analysis
- When and where to use pareto analysis
- Observations
- Root cause analysis
- Finding the root cause
- Hypothesis
- Null and alternate hypothesis
- Terminology
Conducting Detailed Research into Commercial Work Procedures
- Log books
- Collecting and logging data
- Checking data for accuracy
- Developing a base structure
- Data transformations
- Analysing your data
- What shape is data in
- Analyzing documents
- Analyzing interviews
- Analyzing observations
- Analyzing questionnaires
- Interpretation
- The results
- Writing up your report
- Report structure
- Terminology
Developing an Improved Approach to a Workplace Procedure
- Overview
- Terminology
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