Professional & Technical Writing
Research Practicum
(OCTH 790)

Guiding Principle: Understanding the research process is a key element for developing occupational therapy principles and guiding practice.

Course Description:
Students will carry out a research project under the guidance of a faculty mentor, write a research paper summarizing the findings, and give an oral presentation of these findings.

Key Questions: As these courses progress, students will consider the following questions:

  1. Why is conducting research important to Occupational Therapy?
  2. What does it mean to be a researcher on a research project?
  3. What distinguishes qualitative, descriptive, and experimental research paradigms?
  4. Why are research ethics essential for research, and what is the purpose of an Institutional Review Board?
  5. How do researchers conduct descriptive data analyses, and how are inferential statistics used?
  6. How does a consumer of research intelligently critique research studies appearing in research, clinical practice, or popular literatures?


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