Study Guide

Objective

Student will be competent in planning, implementing and reporting a research or development project, which combines the essential body of knowledge gained in preceding studies and the needs of the working life. Student will develop and provide indication of their readiness and apply his/her knowledge and skills in practical specialist tasks associated with their professional studies He/she is able to present his/her work in thesis seminars. In a maturity test student indicate his/her knowledge of Finnish or Swedish and the contents of his/her thesis.

Content

Planning, producing and reporting of a thesis
Thesis seminars
Maturity test

Materials

SeUAS Thesis guidelines
SeUAS Instructions for written work
Hirsjärvi, S., Remes, P. & Sajavaara, P. Newest edition. Tutki ja kirjoita. 11 painos. Helsinki: Tammi.
Heikkilä, T. Newest edition. Tilastollinen tutkimus. Helsinki. Edita.
Vilkka, H. Uusin painos. Tutki ja kehitä. Helsinki: Tammi.
Other relevant research and development work litterature

Teaching methods

Goal-oriented, organised and purposeful information seeking and processing of information, utilising research methods, practical implementation and reporting of own work. Each thesis has a nominated supervisor. Student need to be active to search for supervising.

Student workload

405 h

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Evaluation according to Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences assessment criteria of thesis and requirements and assessment criteria of maturity test.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Evaluation according to Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences assessment criteria of thesis and requirements and assessment criteria of maturity test.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Evaluation according to Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences assessment criteria of thesis and requirements and assessment criteria of maturity test.

Assessment methods and criteria

Thesis and the thesis process. The criteria for evaluation can be found in the SeUAS thesis guidelines.

Qualifications

Introduction to research and development
Research and development work