Planning of the Thesis Work (5 ECTS)

Learning outcomes

The student will be able to
- identify questions and needs for development in the professional field and the working life and to plan for their solutions
- use reliable and confined information from various sources in the development work
- apply professional skills and knowledge and use appropriate methods for the development task.

Content

Familiarizing with the Thesis process.
Agreement and permit practices
Familiarizing with health care context, and planning co-operation with working life partners
Recognizing developmental needs
Critical literature search in Finnish and English language
Choosing methodology and methods
Focusing Thesis topic
Preparing and presenting Thesis plan
Work shops: methods, tutorance for reporting and literature search

Teaching methods

Student's independent work, group-/personal supervision, workshops, seminar

See the workspace TERVEYSALAN OPINNÄYTETYÖ for workshops and timetables

Learning materials and recommended literature

Literature of research- and development methods,research articles of the professional area

Alternative completion methods of implementation

n/a

Internship and working life connections

Co-operation with the project partners

Exam dates and retake possibilities

n/a

International connections

n/a

Student workload

5 cr, 1 cr = 27 hours

Content scheduling

Weeks 43, 44, 45

Further information for students

All the seminars, workshops etc. will be documented in a thesis's record and this record will be returned to the teacher in the end of the whole process.
During this part there are two group tutorials and a possibility to get individual guidance.
The student has to attend at least three workshops during the whole process of the Thesis

Assessment methods and criteria

Accepted Plan of the Thesis Work
Accepted presentation in the seminar and presence in 8 seminar seminars
Accepted presentation as an opponent

Evaluation scale

Hyväksytty/Hylätty

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

See a separate framework for evaluation. When evaluating the competences, the evaluation criteria for competent/intermediate level is used.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

See a separate framework for evaluation. When evaluating the competences, the evaluation criteria for competent/intermediate level is used.