Professional Master's Programme Support Seminars

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The PMP Seminar Schedule 2011-12 can be downloaded here


Professional Research Support Seminars:

The resources below are continually updated and revised from one academic year to the next.

General Resources:

How to improve your essay writing (pdf)

Information skills (pdf)

Education Resources Guide

 

PR - S01 Topic: e-Literacy - Educational research library skills. Introduction to e-Books.

Seminar handouts:
Information skills (pdf) | SwetsWise (pdf) | Education Service (pdf) | Web of Knowledge (pdf) | Education resource guide for 2011/12 (pdf)

PR - S02 Topic: Approaches to research, ontology and epistemology.

Seminar 2 - Powerpoint Slides 2011-12 (pdf) | Spidergram (doc) | Synthetic Phonics Study (2005) (pdf)

PR - S03 Topic: Quantitative and qualitative educational research methods (IT software)

Seminar 3 Powerpoint Slides 2011-12 (pdf) | SPSS guide notes (pdf) | Atlas Software seminar (pdf)

PR - S04 Topic: Examples of research approaches

Seminar 4 PowerPoint Presentation - Research Approaches (pdf)
Flyvbjerg (2006) Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research (pdf)
Sargent (2004) Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Men Caught in the Gender Bind of Early Childhood Education (pdf)
Bowl (2008) Working for change in higher education: the possibilities for collaborative research (pdf)
Reakes (2007) The education of asylum seekers - Some UK case studies (pdf)
Ruddin (2006) You Can Generalize Stupid! Social Scientists, Bent, Flyvbjerg, and Case Study Methodology (pdf)

PR - S05 Topic: M-level assignment and dissertation writing.

Dissertation writing handout – revised March 2011 (pdf) M-Level Spidergram (Word) PSOR Critical Argument (pdf) Research Project-PSOR Scaffold (Word)

Educational Context Seminars 2009-10

EC-01 - The links between ICT and Critical and Creative Thinking

PowerPoint Presentation (pdf)

EC-02 - Being critically reflective: Argument, relativism and honesty?

PowerPoint Presentation (pdf)

EC-03 - The impact of inequality upon educational policy and practice

PowerPoint Presentation (to come May 2010)

Useful Research Website Links

Virtual tour of BSU Library and open access computer rooms is linked below:

http://users.bathspa.ac.uk/cooj1/lib-virtual-tour/

British Educational Research Association (BERA)

On the BERA website you can download the following guidelines:

BSU (non-clinical) research and ethics (pdf)

Department for Education and Skills - Research

http://www.dfes.gov.uk/research/index.cfm

Teacher Training Resource Bank (TTRB)

For more information on applied educational research resources, and to register on the TTRB, visit www.ttrb.ac.uk

Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Website

http://onlineqda.hud.ac.uk.

This is a free resource developed for those needing support with qualitative data analysis (QDA) and those learning to use a Computer Assisted Qualitative Data AnalysiS (CAQDAS) package. The website is aimed principally at researchers and postgraduates, but will also be suitable for some undergraduates.

British Education Index (BEI) Education-line research service:

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/bei/bei.htm

Note: Full access to BEI is available through your ATHENS library account. Details available from our Educational Librarian, Barbara Molloy b.molloy@bathspa.ac.uk