Annual Professional Development Conference - 2016 Wednesday 24 August Research Skills: Models for Delivery – Standalone Assessment Kim Tree and Janet Strain Wednesday 24th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills

Standalone Research Skills Research skills can be assessed on standalone basis Can be assessed on any topic chosen by candidate Wednesday 24th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills

Standalone Research Skills In deciding if Research Skills is to be delivered on a standalone basis, consideration must be given to Rationale for delivering on a standalone basis Scheduling of Research Skills Assessment Instrument Wednesday 24th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills

Rationale Advantages Disadvantages Students have had practice in researching, providing and presenting information Preparation for project based Graded Unit Better Graded Unit results Additional communication/English skills Disadvantages Additional work for students May not finish Research Skills unit satisfactorily before start of project based Graded Unit Wednesday 24th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills

Standalone Research Skills – Scheduling Activity Best Option/Worst option Wednesday 24th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills

Assessment Instrument Standalone Research Skills will require an assessment instrument No CASP provided Centres will have to write their own assessment instrument – prior verification Wednesday 24th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills

Assessment Instrument Activity Your task is to draft an assessment instrument for your Centre to use for Research Skills for standalone delivery Wednesday 24th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills

FALSE FALSE FALSE TRUE TRUE Research Skills – True or False Question Answers Research Skills does not need to be assessed Research Skills must be assessed on its own Research Skills has to be taught by the same person delivering the graded units. The assessment of Research skills can be integrated with the assessment for another suitable Unit. Internal verification needs to be completed for Research Skills even when the assessment is integrated with that from another Unit. FALSE FALSE FALSE TRUE TRUE Wednesday 24th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills

FALSE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE Research Skills – True or False Question Answers It is best to run Research Skills in the first semester of the first year of the HND. A student can pass the Research Skills assessment whilst failing the Graded Unit it is assessed with. A student must pass Research Skills to gain their HND. Research Skills must be delivered 1.5 hours per week. The Business Graded 2 Unit is best delivered twice per week starting in semester 2 of year 2 of the HND. FALSE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE Wednesday 24th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills

Research Skills – True or False Question Answers When assessment for research skills is integrated, the centre doesn’t need to provide any delivery time for Research skills. It is best to start Business Graded unit 2 several weeks before staring Research Skills. ‘Long and thin’ delivery means the hours per week for delivery are reduced, and the number of weeks for delivery is increased. It is impossible to timetable a subject so delivery starts part way into semester 1 and finishes part way into semester 2.   FALSE FALSE TRUE FALSE Wednesday 24th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills

Research Skills– True or False Question Answers   Research Skills and Business Graded Unit 2 must be assessed by the same tutor when the two assessments are integrated. Where two different tutors deliver Research Skills and Business graded Unit 2, it is essential they work closely together. When an integrated assessment is used for Research Skills, the Units can be delivered by different tutors, but assessed by one tutor. FALSE TRUE TRUE Wednesday 24th - Research Skills: Models for Delivery - Research Skills

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