Studying at postgraduate level Student Services Get Ahead 2012 Angela Dierks
What do you think are the differences between UG and PG study? Check with your neighbour. Student Services
What will be different about postgraduate study? Develop your skills to a higher level Acquire new skills Work more independently Work with a supervisor Student Services
Develop your skills to a higher level Student Services gather appropriate material critically evaluate your material (eg assess relevance of theories) use it as the basis for logical argument and discussion (developing a rationale)
Andersons and Krathwohls Taxonomy of Cognitive Domain 1.Remembering: Retrieving, recalling, or recognizing knowledge from memory. 2.Understanding: Constructing meaning from different types of functions be they written or graphic messages activities like interpreting, exemplifying, classifying, summarizing, inferring, comparing, and explaining. 3.Applying: Carrying out or using a procedure through executing, or implementing. 4.Analyzing: Breaking material or concepts into parts, determining how the parts relate or interrelate to one another or to an overall structure or purpose. 5.Evaluating: Making judgments based on criteria and standards through checking and critiquing. 6.Creating: Putting elements together to form a coherent or functional whole; reorganizing elements into a new pattern or structure through generating, planning or producing. Student Services
Acquire new skills Read more widely and beyond core material Demonstrate academic judgement by gathering appropriate published material and evaluating it Gather and process evidence Apply appropriate research methodologies Present your findings in an appropriate manner Student Services
Read more widely and critically Know your way around a range of resources including electronic databases and ejournals Need to evaluate material in terms of relevance, provenance and research methods Student Services
Demonstrate academic judgement Question what you read Draw your own conclusions about the value of the work Student Services
Gather and process evidence Undertake literature review Gather data, eg through questionnaires, interviews or surveys Be aware of ethics Student Services
Apply appropriate research methodology Three types of research: Quantitative (eg based on surveys and numerical data) Qualitative (eg interviews, grounded- theory, case study) Mixed: quantitative and qualitative Student Services
Present your findings Giving a presentation Dissertation writing Appropriate referencing Student Services
Work more independently Need to be good at project management including –Time management –Organisational skills –Knowledge management –Scoping Student Services
Work with a supervisor Clarifying the scope of your work Finding the right supervisor Establishing a positive working relationship Student Services