Study Guide

Objective

Bachelor’s thesis (K30051412; 15 cr) is part of a module called Researching and Developing Work Practices in the Global World, worth of 30 cr. The other course of the module is called Research and Development Skills (K30051412; 15 cr). These two courses form the studies of the 5th semester, and it is meant that you as a student concentrate on the studies of this module and do not take any other courses during 5th semester. Bachelor’s thesis is a research and development project which aims at developing the region and its actors. Bachelor’s thesis is divided to three parts. They are:3005033121 Conceptual Basics 5cr3005033122 First Draft of the Report 5cr3005033123 Final Report, Oral Presentation and Maturity Test 5crThese parts are organized in turns with the parts of the Research and Development Skills course (300503412). The parts of that course are3005034121 Research and Development Plan 5cr3005034122 Methods 5crA third course belonging to this study module is called Project management (300503212) 5cr, and it is organised already during the second year as a joint KYAMK study unit. To sum up, first, you take the project management course during the second year of studies. Then, during the fifth semester you have, in this order:Research and Development PlanConceptual BasicsMethodsFirst Draft ReportFinal Report, Oral Presentation and Maturity TestThe bolded study unit parts are parts of the study unit called Reserch ad Development skills (300503412). During the Research and Development Skills study unit student understands what the research process is, and of what parts it consists ofstudent prepares and presents orally and in written a research plan of his/her own bachelor’s thesisstudent chooses a suitable approach to fulfill his/her development project’s objective. The student is provided with enough information to being able to choose a suitable data acquisition and a suitable data analysis method to his/her thesis project including both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Case, action research and other approaches may be used as well.student collects the necessary data and analyses it in a useful way to his/ her in order to fulfill his/her development/research task.

Content

learning the research process as a whole including basics of different research approachesdoing the research plandeciding on the own research setting = societal aim, objective of the particular thesis, research/development question, research approach (ie. quantitative, qualitative, processual)deciding on the own data acquisition methods to be usedgetting to know how to make surveys, interviews, observationsdeciding on the own data analysis methods to be usedgetting to know application of textual methods and statistical techniques in own analysisdeciding on the own project schedulingbeing able to read and interpret statistics and statistical reports criticallFurther information on the specific data acquisition and data analysis methods in usePersonal supervision on methods

Assessment criteria, good (3)

0-5. Students will also receive oral/written feedback from supervisors, methodology and language teachers, and from peer students.