Research methods, ethics and the design of the Independent Research Project. Assessed through the project, not the written paper.
These are the statements the Community and Family Studies syllabus makes about Research Methodology and the Independent Research Project. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
Designing the Independent Research Project: the question, the method and the justification for both.
Quantitative and qualitative methods, and matching the method to the question rather than to convenience.
Sampling choices, consent, confidentiality and the ethical obligations of researching people.
Turning raw data into findings, and presenting them so a reader can check the inference.
Judging validity and reliability, and identifying what the research could not establish.
HSC Community and Family Studies - Trial Paper Shape is 100 marks in 180 minutes. Questions on Research Methodology and the Independent Research Project are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Community and Family Studies uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Research Methodology and the Independent Research Project is module 5 of 5 in Community and Family Studies. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Community and Family Studies dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.