PSYK3900 Bachelor Thesis Course description

Professional practitioners need skills relating to independent thinking and problem-solving. The bachelor’s programme concludes with an independent documentation work in the form of a bachelor’s thesis. Through work on the bachelor’s thesis, the student must show their understanding of the connection between theory and practice. The bachelor’s thesis must be written in article form in accordance with the APA standard.

Passed the courses PSYK1100, PSYK1200, PSYK1320, PSYK1420, PSYK1600, PSYK1700, PSYK2100, PSYK2200, PSYK2310, PSYKPRA10, PSYK2400, PSYK2600, PSYK3200, PSYK3400, PSYK3500 and PSYKPRA2.

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

Skills

The student can

• protect privacy (according to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)), including safeguarding consent to the collection of personal data and confidentiality

• conduct different types of literature searches

• formulate a research question that can be investigated and written about in a bachelor's thesis

• plan, conduct and document a study, a project work, or a care or training measure

• collect and process data

• use the IMRAD model in reporting and referring according to the current APA standard

• act in accordance with relevant ethical principles

General competence 

The student can

• demonstrate practical research ethics and relevant critical thinking in accordance with academic standards

• exchange professional opinions and experience and contribute to the development of the field

Work on the bachelor’s thesis is conducted full-time over eight weeks. The students work independently on the thesis. A supervisor from among the department’s staff will be appointed for each student.

The following must have been approved in order for the student to submit the bachelor’s thesis.

• Prepare and get approved an outline for the bachelor’s thesis

• Participate in organised supervision (80%)

Individual bachelor’s thesis with a maximum scope of 8,000 words

On application, students may be permitted to write the thesis in pairs. This is on the condition that they have collected the data together and use these in the thesis.

If the bachelor’s thesis mentions information about people and/or their behavior, OsloMet and the Department for Behavioral Sciences' current rules for privacy and consent must be observed.

It is required that the thesis be written in whole or in part from a behavioral analytical perspective. For theses that are written based on a subject field other than behavior analysis, it is expected that the thesis contains an account of and discussion of behavior analysis in relation to the thesis' subject matter.

All aids are permitted, as long as the rules for source referencing are complied with.

Grade scale A-F

All answers are assessed by two examiners.

An external examiner is used regularly, at a minimum of every third completion of the course. When selecting answers for external evaluation, a minimum of 10 percent of the answers shall be included, with no fewer than 5 answers. The external examiner’s assessment of the selected answers shall benefit all students.