Planning of the Thesis Work (5ECTS)

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

Learning materials and recommended literature

Litterature of research- and development methods,research articles of the professional area.

Exercises and other course material produced by teacher is protected by Finnish law (Tekijänoikeuslaki (404/61)). Course material use, other than own studies, is prohibited. Copying, distributing in public etc. is possible only by teachers approval.

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

Content scheduling

Weeks 36,37 and 38. Start meeting 1.9.2020. Seminars 14.9., 16.9.2020 and 18.9.2020. Start meeting and seminars are all distance education.

Further information for students

Opiskelija kirjaa suoritukset ja ohjauksien sisällön opinnäytetyöpassiin.
Passi luovutetaan valmiin opinnäytetyön kanssa sisällönohjaajalle.
Opinnäytetyöprosessin aikana suositellaan 1-2 ohjauskertaa / opinnäytetyön opintojakso.
Osallistuminen vähintään kolmeen työpajaan koko opinnäytetyöprosessin aikana.

Assessment methods and criteria

Accepted plan of the thesis work
Accepted presentation of thesis work
Accepted peer review (both oral and written) from other students' thesis

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.