Unit Description

This unit will support you in gaining knowledge about conceptualising, designing, conducting, and evaluating survey research. The purposes, principles, and practices of survey research are introduced to help you to build ‘survey literacy’. You will learn how to develop research questions/hypotheses, basic statistical modelling for hypothesis testing, and how to design a survey questionnaire that can produce data that is essential for hypothesis testing. The unit encourages and supports you to consider using survey research to problematise, inform, or improve contemporary educational practice.

This unit is designed to be studied as part of the research pathway in the Master of Education course. This unit helps prepare students for both practitioner research and further postgraduate study. This unit may also be studied as a single option.