The Research Skill Development of Coursework Students

LEARNING AND TEACHING SEMINAR Hosted by the Education Research Group of Adelaide

Enabling Graduating Students To Be Research Ready

Date: 16 October 2007 Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm Venue: Engineering North, N123b Lunch and drinks will be provided.

A seminar on the development of student research skills for academics in each discipline, presented by Said Al-Sarawi (Electrical & Electronic Engineering ), Joy McEntee (English), John Willison (CLPD) and other academics.

Lecturers in 4 different Schools have been utilising the Research Skill Development (RSD) framework to inform the way that they explicitly facilitate students discipline- specific research skills. The RSD approach, developed at the University of Adelaide, has been used in several schools in the Faculties of Health Sciences and also in the Faculty of ECMS. A project informed by the RSD has attracted $215000 of Federal Funding, via the Carrick Institute, to enable its uptake by the University of Melbourne, Monash University, Macquarie University and the University of South Australia. Universities in the UK, Canada and South Africa have also expressed interest.

This seminar will bring you up to speed with the characteristics of an RSD approach, with presentations from the perspective of several diverse disciplines. This will be the only workshop that gives a general overview of its use across the university- all other RSD workshops are run with a focus on the hosting school.

Program 12:50 Bagettes and drinks 1:00 Overview of RSD and its uses at the University of Adelaide 1:10 Use of the RSD framework in the assessment of several disciplines 1:30 Discussion; Qs & As 2:00 End

The workshop is funded by a University Learning and Teaching Development grant, and is part of a larger project on the development of coursework student research skills in numerous disciplines. For all who are looking for a systematic approach to develop student research skills in the context of coursework.