Choose a topic, develop a problem statement and formulate a research question that critically examines an area of personal interest located within your discipline or course specialisation.

Assignment 1: Discussion stating the problem and research question
Assessment type Discussion

Word limit/length 500 Words + 200 (including in-text citations, reference list, any tables/figures and appendices)
Weighting 10%
Due date

Overview

Choose a topic, develop a problem statement and formulate a research question that critically examines an area of personal interest located within your discipline or course specialisation. The format of the research question will fit the type of critical review that suits your topic and problem statement. You will discuss this process and upload the assignment to Turnitin.

Learning outcomes

This assessment task is aligned to the following learning outcomes:

Develop a research question and problem statement to guide critical examination of an area of personal interest, located within your discipline or course specialisation.

Instructions

Use the Week 1 content, associated readings, Activities 1.1 and 1.2 and the rubric (over page) as guidance:

Write your assignment as a discussion, including:

Problem statement (significance of the research problem);

The systematic review type that best fits the problem;

Structured question;

The question format (e.g. ‘PICO’, ‘PICo’, ‘PEO’) and how the question fits the format;

Justification of question format referring to Reading 1.2 by Munn et al. (2018) and your problem statement.

Reference/s (a minimum of 3 references)

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