YTRA9002-1

Duration

30h Pr

Number of credits

	Master in education (120 ECTS)	5 crédits

Lecturer

Collégialité

Coordinator

Jonathan Rappe

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

All year long

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

Overall, training in basic principles of educational research and scientific writing. The educationnal device is structured as follows :

Module 1: Research issue and methodological orientation
Module 2: How to write a research issue and a research question
Module 3: Documentary research and bibliographic standards
Module 4: How to write research hypotheses and a research protocol
Module 5: Background and Formal Quality of a study
Writing an individual pre-master thesis

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

The aims of the TIR education unit are to ensure that students are able to:

Define a research problem and select a relevant methodology to answer it efficiently
Write a research question according to current standards and the research hypothesis arising from it
Write a review of the literature related to the research question asked and containing articulated information from relevant sources
Locate and select research papers related to their research problem using specialized bibliographic databases
Write a bibliography of sources used in accordance with the American Psychology Association (APA)

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Different teaching methods are used in this course :

Online course modules integrating video presentations, individual activities and discussions (through the use of forums)
Classroom sessions
Individual meetings according to the specific needs of each students
Writing a pre-master thesis integrating the notions discovered in the modules.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

The teaching unit consists of a hybrid training device combining online sessions (mainly) and face-to-face sessions.

Assessment methods and criteria

Delivery of a written work (pre-master thesis) meeting the criteria transmitted at the beginning of the academic year. The delivery of this work in first session is conditioned by:

Online tasks accomplishement
The delivery of the two administrative documents ("department" and "faculty" documents) within the deadlines.

If one of those criteria isn't achieved, the pre-master thesis will be automatically rescheduled in the second session.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

Marie Housen, teacher assistant : marie.housen@uliege.be

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