Research Practicum Adult Education Sciences

6 ECTS credits
150 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 1006220BNR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.

Semester

2nd semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Taught in

Dutch

Faculty

Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences

Department

Educatiewetenschappen

Educational team

Liesbeth De Donder (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

39 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals

Course Content

The ‘Research Practicum Adult Education Sciences’ continues to build on the skills acquired as part of the 'Research methods and techniques for adult educational sciences' training course . The Research practicum places emphasis both on quantitative as qualitative research. The objective is to design and execute a research within the field of adult educational sciences together with the students. In doing so, each phase of the empirical cycle (problem statement, literature review, research questions, choosing research design, interviewing, focusgroups, survey, qualitative and quantitative data-analysis, reporting) is explained and eloborated in a practical sense.

By the end of the 'Adult Education Sciences Research Practicum', the students have completed a full empirical cycle and have written a personal research design. Both the theory and the practical sessions of the research practicum are focused as much as possible on the masters thesis of the student, which they will be required to produce in the following year.

Additional info

Presentations (slides), exercises and additional text material will be provided on the learning platform.

Background information can be found in: Book: Social Research Methods, Qualitative and quantitative methods, Bryman, A., 5de, Oxford: University Press, 9780199689453, 2015

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

• The adult educational scientist is able to detect the need for (scientific) information in an international and multiculturally social context, to collect, analyse and process the information in order to obtain more insights in the proposed questions.

• The adult educational scientist is aware of both the possibilities and the limitations of (own) research and uses research results actively in order to handle agogical questions.

• The adult educational scientist is able to use the scientific literature, qualitative and quantitative research methodology and analysis within the adult educational sciences.

• The adult educational scientist is able to execute research in group.

• The adult educational scientist is able to design a scientific study independently.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 45% of the final mark.
PRAC Practical Assignment determines 10% of the final mark.
SELF Paper determines 45% of the final mark.

Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Oral exam with a relative weight of 45 which comprises 45% of the final mark.

Note: Students are required to submit a research proposal and present an oral defence thereof at the exam.

Within the PRAC Practical Assignment category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Practical Assignment with a relative weight of 10 which comprises 10% of the final mark.

Note: Fieldwork assignment

Within the SELF Paper category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Paper Research Proposal with a relative weight of 45 which comprises 45% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

90%: Students are required to submit a research proposal and present an oral defence thereof at the exam. The research proposal (paper) counts for 45%, the oral exam counts for 45%
10%: Evaluation fieldwork

Students need to pass all 3 assignments, in order to have a final pass.

In accordance with the Education and Examination Regulations 2019-2020: 'Absence from a mandatory part of the evaluation leads to an absence as result code'.

The partial result of the fieldwork assignment (practical assignment, 10%) is automatically transferred to the second term if the result is at least 10/20. The student who wishes to resume the fieldwork assignment sends an e-mail to the professor by 10 July at the latest.
The partial result of the Oral Examination and Paper Research Proposal are automatically transferred to the second term with a result of at least 10/20 for each of the two parts. If the student did not pass one of the two parts, both parts have to be resumed in the second session.

The partial results of the Oral Examination (45%), the Paper Research Proposal (45%) and the fieldwork assignment (practical assignment, 10%) cannot be transferred to the next academic year.

The final grade will be equal to the lowest partial grade if the student did not pass all parts.

For additional information about the course: see Canvas.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context