HOLMES INSTITUTE
FACULTY OF
HIGHER EDUCATION
Assessment Details and Submission Guidelines
Trimester T1 2020
Unit Code HI6008
Unit Title Business Research Project
Assessment Type 4. Reflective Journal (Individual), includes a statement indicating which sections of this research project you personally wrote and what you learned from this experience.
Assessment Title Reflective Journal
Purpose of the assessment (with ULO Mapping) The purpose of this assessment is to ensure each student is able to document a critical reflection of their personal learning process, as experienced during this unit.
Matches to Unit Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7
Weight 20 % of the total assessments
Total Marks 20
Word limit At least 1200 words
Due Date Friday of Week 12
Submission Guidelines • All work must be submitted on Blackboard by 12 midnight on the due date, along with a completed Assignment Cover Page. [No cover page -20%]
• The assignment must be in MS Word format, 1.5 spacing, 12-pt Arial font and 2 cm margins on all four sides of your page with appropriate section headings, paragraphing, and page numbers.
• Reference sources must be cited in the text of the report, and listed appropriately at the end in a reference list, all using Harvard referencing style.
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Assignment 4 Specifications Purpose:
This unit aims to give you an opportunity to combine many facets of your acquired MBA skills into the production of a high-quality research project.
Assignment 4 - the Individual Reflective Journal - is to ensure each student is able to contribute to document a critical reflection of their personal learning process, as experienced during this unit. It will be best to build your journal progressively, by making notes each week, starting at week 1 and going through to week 12. Your notes will serve as a reminder of which sections you personally contributed to, what you learnt, and how you experienced the learning process.
A significant aspect of the learning journal will be your reflections on how well your team co-operated in the various phases of the Business Research Project, i.e. Topic Approval, Literature Review, and Methodology.
Assignment Structure should be as the following:
1. My personal contribution to the topic selection, problem definition, research question, writing of topic approval submission, and team charter. How I experienced this and what I learnt from it.
2. My personal contribution to the literature review report, i.e. search process, summarising of relevant articles, designing the outline/argument/structure of the literature review, writing up the literature review. How I experienced this and what I learnt from it.
3. My personal contribution to the research methodology report, i.e. my role in discussions about methods, sampling, questionnaire design, data collection, analysis and interpretation. How I experienced this and what I learnt from it.
4. My reflections on the research experience, insights I gained, and any issues, struggles, challenges, synergies I experienced, individually and in the teamwork
5. My statement indicating which sections of this research project I personally wrote and what I learned from this experience.
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HI6008 Assignment 4 – Individual Reflective Journal - Marking Rubric
Very Good
4 Good
3 Satisfactory 2 Poor 1 Unclear 0
Reflections about: topic identification, problem definition, research question, writing of topic approval submission and team charter [Max 4 marks] Deep, insightful, well-stated, comprehensive capturing of essential learnings, feelings and future opportunities Good attempt at capturing essential learnings, feelings and future opportunities Satisfactory attempt at capturing essential learnings, feelings and future opportunities Poor attempt at capturing essential learnings, feelings and future opportunities Insufficiently reflective or not communicated
Reflections about: literature review – search process, summarising relevant articles, designing the outline of the literature review, writing up the literature review [Max 4 marks] Deep, insightful, well-stated, comprehensive capturing of essential learnings, feelings and future opportunities Very good attempt at capturing essential learnings, feelings and future opportunities Good attempt at capturing essential learnings, feelings and future opportunities Satisfactory attempt at capturing essential learnings, feelings and future opportunities Insufficiently reflective or poorly communicated
Reflections about: methodology – discussions about methods, sampling, questionnaire design, implications for data analysis and interpretation [Max 4 marks] Deep, insightful, well-stated, comprehensive capturing of essential learnings, feelings and future opportunities Very good attempt at capturing essential learnings, feelings and future opportunities Good attempt at capturing essential learnings, feelings and future opportunities Satisfactory attempt at capturing essential learnings, feelings and future opportunities Insufficiently reflective or poorly communicated
Reflections about: the research experience, insights I gained, and any issues, struggles, challenges, synergies experienced, individually and in the teamwork
[Max 4 marks] Deep, insightful, well-stated, comprehensive capturing of essential learnings, feelings and future opportunities Very good attempt at capturing essential learnings, feelings and future opportunities Good attempt at capturing essential learnings, feelings and future opportunities Satisfactory attempt at capturing essential learnings, feelings and future opportunities Insufficiently reflective or poorly communicated
My statement indicating which sections of this research project you personally wrote and what you learned from this experience
[Max 4 marks] Evidence of a very good overall contribution Evidence of a good overall contribution Evidence of a satisfactory overall contribution Evidence suggests a poor overall contribution No evidence of personal contribution
Total Marks (20)
Comments:
/20
HI6008 BUSINESS RESEARCH PROJECT – ASSIGNMENT 4 – REFLECTIVE JOURNAL