Study Guide

Learning outcomes

The student is able to:
- Plan, implement, report and evaluate a work life based development project
- Apply and implement different research methods in developing work life
- Apply and evaluate researched knowledge and use it for work-life development
- Apply and use different data collection methods in the research data gathering and evaluate data reliability
- Apply and evaluate the ethical aspects of research in the research and development process

Assessment scale

1-5

Assessment criteria: level 1 (assessment scale 1–5)

The student is able to recognize and name the most important concepts of research and development methods.The student is able to recognize and name suitable research approach and data collection method for the development task. The student is able to recognize analysis methods.

Assessment criteria: level 3 (assessment scale 1–5)

In addition to the previous criteria, the student is able to use the selected research based development methods and knowledge and data collection method in the development task. The student is able to justify the use of the research approach and the related methods. Student understands the importance of critical thinking in selecting research and development method and related to literature and empirical data. The student is able to demonstrate practical benefits of the results of the research and development task.

Assessment criteria: level 5 (assessment scale 1–5)

In addition to the previous criteria, the student is able to justifiable evaluate the success of the selected research approach and the suitability of the research and development methods. The student is able to evaluate the reliability and generalizability of the research of development task. Student is able to apply the results of the research or development task.