View Specification DocumentEnquiry and Evidence-Informed Practice EDUC51109
- Academic Session: 2026-27
- School: School of Education
- Credits: 30
- Level: Level 5 (SCQF level 11)
- Typically Offered: Semester 1
- Available to Visiting Students: No
- Collaborative Online International Learning: No
- Curriculum For Life: No
Short Description
This course comprises a series of Q-step lectures and seminars to support professional decision making alongside professional enquiry seminars which develop an increased depth of students' critical understanding of approaches to professional enquiry. This is an SCQF level 11 course and as such EEIP helps students develop an extensive, detailed and critical knowledge and understanding of forms of professional enquiry which are at the forefront of teacher professionalism through consolidating and extend knowledge, skills, practices and thinking around an ethical enquiry stance developed through courses earlier in the Programme. In applying this knowledge students will demonstrate originality and/or creativity. In preparation for the major dissertation this course increases the level of demand of asynchronous work expected by students in preparation for the independent work of the dissertation.
Timetable
Combination of lectures and seminars.
Requirements of Entry
Recommended: Satisfactory completion of all elements of MEduc Year 4.
Excluded Courses
None
Co-requisites
None
Assessment
Set exercise (60% - 2500 words) - patchwork text
Written assignment (40% - 1000 words) - personal and critical reflection
Main Assessment In: December
Course Aims
The purpose of this course is three fold. Firstly, it prepares students to undertake a range of forms of professional enquiry to allow them to confidently enquire into their practice throughout their career. Secondly, it supports students to develop their research literacy and data interpretation skills to ensure that the decisions they make about their practice are evidence informed and well founded. Thirdly, taken together these first two aims will prepare students to undertake their major dissertation in semester 2.
Intended Learning Outcomes of Course
By the end of this course students will be able to:
1. Design and justify an appropriate methodology for professional enquiry as an insider researcher.
2. Demonstrate skills of research literacy and data interpretation through making and justifying educational decisions.
3. Interrogate the ethical issues associated with a newly qualified teacher undertaking a distinctive form of practitioner enquiry as an insider researcher.