HEPL

Methodology of research 2nd year

To help the students, future occupational therapists, to be trained with research in order to be able to undertake successfully some research tasks, that it is within the framework of their professional life or more simply within the framework of their dissertation

On completion of this course, students will have demonstrated the capacity to undertake a search for A to Z and to choose, with full knowledge of the facts, one or the other of the many techniques of investigation in order to work out themselves the procedures of work correctly adapted to their research.

To help the students to highlight qualities and the flaws of a scientific research, in short to prove critical mind to evaluate the validity of research, in particular in the field of Occupational Therapy

Stages of the scientific step

First stage: the starting question

Second stage: exploratory work

Third stage: development of the working hypotheses

Fourth stage: the collection and analysis of information - various techniques of collection of information

Fifth stage : writing the dissertation

From examples and exercises borrowed from the field of occupational Therapy, topics such as the formation of a research project, exploratory work,development of working hypotheses, various techniques of collection of information, analysis and the drafting of the results of work...will be discussed

Dissertation.Written and oral examinations