6 ECTS credits
150 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 1006220BNR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.
The ‘Research Practicum Adult Education Sciences’ continues to build on the skills acquired as part of the 'Research methods and techniques for adult educational sciences' training course . The Research practicum places emphasis both on quantitative as qualitative research. The objective is to design and execute a research within the field of adult educational sciences together with the students. In doing so, each phase of the empirical cycle (problem statement, literature review, research questions, choosing research design, interviewing, focusgroups, survey, qualitative and quantitative data-analysis, reporting) is explained and eloborated in a practical sense.
By the end of the 'Adult Education Sciences Research Practicum', the students have completed a full empirical cycle and have written a personal research design. Both the theory and the practical sessions of the research practicum are focused as much as possible on the masters thesis of the student, which they will be required to produce in the following year.
Presentations (slides), exercises and additional text material will be provided on the learning platform.
Background information can be found in: Book: Social Research Methods, Qualitative and quantitative methods, Bryman, A., 5de, Oxford: University Press, 9780199689453, 2015.
More information on contents of lessons and teaching materials will follow during the first lesson.
Generative AI can be used in this course, further details will be provided during course activities and the Canvas Course Platform. Any use of generative AI should be properly referenced.
• The adult educational scientist is able to detect the need for (scientific) information in an international and multiculturally social context, to collect, analyse and process the information in order to obtain more insights in the proposed questions.
• The adult educational scientist is aware of both the possibilities and the limitations of (own) research and uses research results actively in order to handle agogical questions.
• The adult educational scientist is able to use the scientific literature, qualitative and quantitative research methodology and analysis within the adult educational sciences.
• The adult educational scientist is able to execute research in group.
• The adult educational scientist is able to design a scientific study independently.
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 50% of the final mark.
SELF Paper determines 50% of the final mark.
Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Within the SELF Paper category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Students are required to submit a research proposal and present an oral defence thereof at the exam.
The research proposal (paper) counts for 50%, the oral exam counts for 50%.
Students need to pass both assignments, in order to have a final pass.
If the student did not pass either component in the first exam period, both components must be retaken in the second examination period. If you have a failing grade for either of the two components, you will receive the lowest partial grade as the final score. Partial grades can not be carried over to the second examination period and thus both parts will have to be resumed in the second session.
Absence from a mandatory part of the evaluation leads to an absence as result code.
The partial results of the Oral Examination (50%) and the Paper Research Proposal (50%) cannot be transferred to the next academic year.
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Adult Education: Profile Social Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Adult Education: Profile Cultural Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Adult Education: Abridged Profile Social Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Adult Education: Abridged Profile Cultural Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Bridging Programme Master of Science in Adult Education: Profile Sociale Agogiek (only offered in Dutch)
Bridging Programme Master of Science in Adult Education: Profile Culturele Agogiek (only offered in Dutch)
Bridging Programme Master of Teaching in Behavioural Sciences: Adult Education (only offered in Dutch)
Preparatory Programme Master of Science in Adult Education: Profile Social Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Preparatory Programme Master of Science in Adult Education: Profile Cultural Studies (only offered in Dutch)