Irena Andrews (Programme Leader)

Andy Davies

Keith Turvey

Richard Wallis

MA Education (Teaching Leaders)

KV721 Professional Enquiry

2013/14 (Session 2)

How was it for you?

Re-Introductions

KV721 Professional Enquiry

Session Aims

• To examine the process of critical

engagement with research literature

• To begin to identify and critique

relevant research literature

• To provide an opportunity to discuss

the focus of individual projects with

tutors

• To reflect upon initial writing task and

plan for ways forwards

Defining criticality

‘Evidence’ – What counts?

• Research literature?

• Experience?

• Theory?

• Observation?

• Anecdote?

• Letter?

• A statistic?

Charles Darwin

Toolkits and effect size – Job done?

‘Intervention’ design

What kind of intervention could be appropriate for my professional context?

‘Intervention’ design

What do we ‘know’ about past interventions?

Group goals

Individual

accountability

Researching an intervention

The next stage

• ‘What is’ my intervention?

• What does the literature say?

• What is the quality of the

evidence in this area?

• So what?

Image: Falling time by

Samuel John (Flickr)

Afternoon programme

Meet in room LRC106 in the basement of the library