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EER416 Collaborative Inquiry (8)
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This subject seeks to highlight the critical nature of maintaining an inquiry stance both individually and collaboratively. Teachers learn from, with and about their students from interactions and experiences with their students and colleagues. Students will take action as inquiring professionals who continually refine their practice, planning, instruction, and assessment based on data in order to determine next steps and to facilitate and improve student learning, as well as classroom and school environments. The ongoing cycle of reflective inquiry will include questioning, observing, consulting other data sources, reflecting, interpreting, and taking action. |
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Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details prior to contacting their course coordinator: EER416
Where differences exist between the handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
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Subject information| Duration | Grading System | School: |
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| One term | HD/FL | School of Teacher Education |
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Enrolment restrictions|
Restricted to students in the Bachelor of Primary Education Studies course. |
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Learning OutcomesUpon successful completion of this subject, students should:
- be able to analyse the role of teacher as inquirer to seek to further understand their students, and their own practice in order to enhance student learning;
- be able to distinguish between the different methods used in educational research;
- be able to understand how research studies are designed;
- be able to access, interpret, evaluate and use educational research literature as well as large and small scale assessment data to make informed decisions about its usefulness in a particular context;
- be able to plan a small scale research study in order to enact a change using an inquiry and action research approach; and
- be able to collaborate with colleagues regarding shared questions and areas of interest, look at evidence and research, review theories and/or other bodies of knowledge in order to make precise, personalised, pedagogical decisions and determine next steps.
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SyllabusThe subject will cover the following topics:
- Collaborative inquiry: a critical component of teacher practice.
- Educational research: sources, purpose, and relevance.
- Educational research: methods.
- Educational literature: sources, purpose, and relevance.
- Assessment data.
- Planning for change.
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The information contained in the 2015 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 01 October 2015. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.
