Магистратура
2025/2026
Научно-исследовательский семинар "Обучение и оценивание как наука"
Статус:
Курс обязательный (Обучение и оценивание как наука)
Кто читает:
Департамент образовательных программ
Где читается:
Институт образования
Когда читается:
1-й курс, 1-4 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
9
Контактные часы:
60
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The research seminar "Science of Learning and Assessment" is a core course that aims to teach students fundamental steps in scientific methods with practical applications that students can use with their own thesis projects. The seminar provides systematic, structured support to students of the master's program at all stages of their coursework. Discussion topics and assignments include thesis topic selection, systematic literature review, developing research hypotheses, experimental design, ethics in research, and method selection. The course will offer students the opportunity to present their research topics orally and in writing, by covering principles of academic writing and successful oral presentations.
Learning Objectives
- To develop students’ ability to follow the logic and stages of the research process.
- To develop students’ ability to identify research problems and position them within relevant scientific literature.
- To develop students’ ability to design and describe the methodological components of a research project.
- To develop students’ ability to present and discuss their research in an academic setting.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Defines research interests using appropriate scientific terminology
- Develops a research problem by formulating research questions, identifying relevant theoretical frameworks and key concept
- Synthesizes and critically evaluates previous research to identify relationships, contradictions, and gaps in the literature
- Produces a coherent and well-structured literature review for the master’s thesis
- Develops a coherent research strategy that aligns the theoretical framework, research questions, methods, and expected results, and assesses its feasibility.
- Selects and justifies an appropriate research design and develops a plan for an empirical study
- Identifies and addresses key ethical issues in research
- Revises and develops the research project by integrating theoretical findings with the plan for the empirical study and available resources
- Presents research methods, data analysis, and results clearly and in accordance with academic conventions
- Interprets research findings in relation to research questions, theoretical frameworks, and previous research and develops a coherent discussion
- Applies principles of academic communication when responding to peer review, revising research, and presenting scholarly arguments
Course Contents
- Introduction to basic research terms and issue.
- Starting student’s personal research project (master thesis)
- Literature review. Goals, story plot and structure
- Writing students’ personal literature review for their master theses
- Connection between literature review, research strategy, research logic.
- Finalizing of theoretical part of master thesis (long version of proposal)
- Research Ethics
- Summarizing findings from personal literature reviews and planning empirical studies
- Writing about method, data analysis, results
- Discussing/Interpretation: recurring to the start and looking ahead. Writing about interpretation of results
- Practical issues: Reaction to critics, rejection and academic communication.
Assessment Elements
- Predefense
- Participation, first year
- Participation, second year
- Homework
- Defense of research problem
- Defense of research framework and design
Interim Assessment
- 2025/2026 4th module0.2 * Participation, first year + 0.25 * Defense of research framework and design + 0.15 * Homework + 0.25 * Defense of research problem
- 2026/2027 4th module0.1 * Homework + 0.7 * Predefense + 0.2 * Participation, second year
