ERGOB2200 Rehabilitation, Habilitation and Intervention, Part 2 Course description

The master’s program final exam is a written thesis in the form of an innovation project report with an executive summary. The thesis should describe a project based on best practice for the relevant field. Theses may be written about topics from research projects run by faculty or initiated by the student. The thesis should be on a topic relevant for the field of behavioral science as the term is used in the context of the current degree.

The 60 ECTS thesis for the specialisation in Innovation and Implementation will justify and describe an innovation project in an organization, whether public or private. The student must be in a position to suggest and implement the project, or the organization may request a particular project for the student to conduct. The thesis will describe all relevant factors in the change process, and include an evaluation of the results, including customer satisfaction. Needs assessment; choosing primary and secondary objectives; means and methods of change; implementation strategies; required resources, and results, must all be reported. The candidate must present an analysis of risk and success factors, and an analysis of ethical and legal concerns in the project.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The student:

• is familiar with the key role the web and the internet play in modern data processing from an organisational, national and global perspective

• is familiar with the social, security-related and financial aspects and challenges of the field, as well as historical aspects
• is capable of seeing this part of information technology in a historical and forward-looking perspective
• is familiar with different project work methods and has fundamental knowledge and experience of projects as a work method

Skills

The student:

• is capable of making user-friendly and universally designed solutions in accordance with legislation

• is familiar with the most important web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
• is capable of identifying commercial and technological trends in web technology and of developing innovative user solutions
• is capable of using relevant development tools and version control
• is capable of planning, organising and implementing small-scale web-based IT projects
• is capable of submitting oral and written reports with the help of relevant presentation techniques

General competence

The student:

• is capable of communicating the results of development work
• is capable of working in groups

Lectures and exercises. The students work both individually and in groups (either small-scale collaboration projects between two people or large-scale collaboration projects involving up to ten people). The course uses ‘active learning’ as an approach in which dynamic participation in simulations, games and discussions is expected. Lectures may also take the form of pre-recorded videos or streaming. Guest lectures may be given in the different parts of the course. Students who have actively participated in and carried out an assignment during the introduction week will have this approved as a compulsory assignment in this course. The student then needs to submit another six compulsory assignments (i.e. a total of seven).

The following coursework is compulsory and must be approved before the student can sit the exam:

• 7 written group assignments (the introduction week assignment can be one of the required assignments)

The following required coursework must be approved before the student can take the exam:

a) Two research ethics seminars are 100 % attendance required before submitting the thesis  outline. The seminars will take place digitally.

b) Completion of 6 attendance required, two-day digital thesis seminars with all tasks approved. These tasks are written submissions each with a maximum of 5000 characters, including spaces. The order of submissions 2 - 6 is individually determined by the student in collaboration with the field supervisor. Task approval is granted by the field supervisor.

1. An outline of a project idea, with a tentative timeline.
2. An analysis of the contingencies for implementation of the project.
3. A description and justification of search strategy and choice of background literature.
4. A justified suggestion for research design.
5. A detailed description of methods for data collection, including methods for securing data integrity, and a justified suggestion for data analysis strategies.
6. A risk and vulnerability analysis for the project, and strategies for data protection and security, including application of approval from external bodies.

c) Approval of final thesis outline by program faculty. The outline must incorporate the subjects of the tasks mentioned as Course requirements b 2 - 6.

d) Submit a signed contract with the appointed supervisor.

Thesis. Submission of master’s thesis according to program specifications, consisting of a project report. Technical standards according to the current APA manual. Submitting dates each year: June 15th  and November 15th.

Thesis format

The Master’s thesis consists of a project report. The format of the project report should conform to the publishing conventions of the science of behavior analysis, and the length should be appropriate for the work that is reported. The project report must include an executive summary for the Best Practice project bank. The project report is written according to the current APA Publishing Manual Standard; double spaced Times New Roman size 12 with standard margins for MS Office Word. Examiner’s guidelines are provided.

Ethics and data protection

An account of ethical considerations is required if the thesis includes empirical data on humans or nonhuman animals. A risk -and vulnerability analysis (ROS-vurdering) should normally be conducted, and a case number should be included in the title page of the thesis article. If data on humans are included in the thesis, an account of data protection issues is typically required. The description of ethical and data protection considerations can be included in the main body of the thesis. If the decision is made that such an account is not appropriate in the main body of the thesis, a reflection note on this topic should be attached to the thesis. A reflection note is a short description of ethical and data protection considerations, maximum 6000 characters, including spaces. For theses that do not include empirical data, research ethics relevant to the thesis should be discussed, either in the main body of the text or a reflection note. 

Some Master projects may require consideration or approval from external bodies, such as Norwegian Centre for Research Data (NSD), the Regional Committee for Medicine and Health Sciences Research Ethics (REK), National Committee for Research Ethics in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (NESH), and/or internal or external data protection officials. It is ultimately the responsibility of the main supervisor to ensure that the relevant bodies are consulted. If external bodies are consulted, a case number should be included in the title page of the thesis article. If a decision is made that there is no need to consult external bodies regarding ethics or data protection, a description of the deliberations preceding this decision is required, either in the main body of the thesis or in the reflection note. If the thesis is an empirical work, the main supervisor must state in writing that the research is conducted in accordance with current laws and regulations before the thesis can be submitted.

Grade scale A-F

One internal and one external examiner will assess all exams.

Emnet er ekvivalent (overlapper 10 studiepoeng) med: ITPE1200, ADTS1200, LO136A, LO136D og LO136I.

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