Assignment title: Qualitative Analysis Research Project Programme: BBA6 Course name: Research Methods Course number: GEN 4107 Faculty responsible: Dr R. Germanier Hand-out date: Week 8 Groups alone or in pairs, students individual choice Hand-in date soft copy project: Week 15, Before class Weighting: 50% of the final grade. Any work handed in in the 24 hours following the deadline: 20% reduction. Work submitted after the 24-hour period: 0 grade. Reduction of the grade in proportion if word count is not adhered to.
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Assignment Overview Students are asked to design and undertake a research project based on the use and qualitative analysis of interview data. Students should interview two non- Research Methods Les Roches students about their internship experience and define and then answer a research question related to any aspect of an internship. A poster summarising all the elements of a small-scale empirical research project should be submitted as should a document of supporting material. Overall aim: To enable students to demonstrate their understanding of research design and their qualitative data collection, analysis and presentation skills.
Learning outcomes: 1. Appraise qualitative and quantitative research methods and strategies. 2. Formulate research questions, hypotheses and variables. 3. Assess existing research. 4. Justify a research design. Organisation and methodology:
The poster should follow the template provided on Moodle. The supporting document should contain the elements stated in the
template available on Moodle. There is no word count for the supporting document.
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Assessment tasks & weighting: Poster this set of tasks is worth 50% of the final mark of this assignment
Assessed Tasks Marks / 100
Task 1: Introduction Relevancy of the research question.
10
Task 2: Methodology Explanation of the research design
15
Task 3: Results Clear, accurate & relevant summary 15
Task 4: Findings Clear, accurate & relevant summary of the answer to the RQ 30
Referencing 10 Accurate academic English 10 Overall completion of task Clarity and ease of understanding of poster; overall impression.
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Total 100 Supporting document this set of tasks is worth 50% of the final mark of this assignment
Assessed Tasks Marks / 100
Task 1: Map Mapping of concepts from the RQ to the literature onto the questions in the interview and to the findings
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