SFV4500 Applied analyses workshop - qualitative method Course description

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

• Compulsory attendance at the seminar on literature search (normally week 1 of the course).Compensatory work requirement if not present: The student must choose a different health claim, create a PICO based on this health claim, and describe a search for this PICO in Up-To-Date, Health Library according to guidelines or in Cochrane Library. The assignment is not academically assessed by the person with the course responsibility, but it will be registered (in Fagpersonweb) that the work requirement has been submitted and the student will find the registration in studentweb.
• Compulsory attendance at the Help-desk seminar (normally week 2 of the course) where students/exam groups ask questions and receive answers/guidance on the exam assignment. Compensatory work requirement if not present: In case of absence, students must submit 2 questions to the exam assignment and provide an academic justification for the questions of up to 100 words. The assignment is not academically assessed by the person with the course responsibility, but it will be registered (in Fagpersonweb) that the work requirement has been submitted and the student will find the registration in studentweb.

Project examination, consisting of a group assignment with up to 7 students, based on a case with a health claim in the media. The assignment will include the levels of the EBP model. The assignment is submitted as a written paper of 1500 words (+/- 10 prosent) according to further specified criteria.

Each group decides whether their assignment is to be submitted in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or English.

Resit exam: If the assignment is given the grade fail, the group can submit a revised version once.

If this attempt fails, the group is entitled to a third and final attempt. In a third attempt, the group must choose a new health claim and submit a new examination paper.

After completing the course, the student should have the following overall learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The student has advanced knowledge of

• different traditions in textual analysis
• different theories about power and language
• different genres of text of importance to the welfare state

Skills

The candidate is capable of

• discussing how different methods of textual analysis can be applied in practice
• conducting analysis of all types of text material
• reflecting over language and text as forces in the welfare society and in his/her own academic work

General competence

• The student is able to reflect critically on the ethical consequences of qualitative research and analysis

The teaching takes place with in-person attendance on campus, and is organised as a combination of lectures and practical analysis work in groups and through plenary discussions. The student will acquire a reflective attitude towards the tools of analysis through independent work with different texts.

The practical analysis work takes place in the form of two writing seminars. Prior to the first seminar, the student must submit the draft of an essay. Feedback from the person responsible for the seminar will be given in the first seminar. Prior to the second seminar, the student must submit a reworked draft of the essay, and read the first draft of two fellow students. During the second seminar, the student must provide written and oral opponent feedback on the drafts. Attendance is required at both seminars in order to receive opponent feedback and comments from the seminar tutor.

All answers are assessed by one examiner. 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.

Prior to the course, the students are recommended to go through the elements in "Startpakka" which focus on literature search, critical appraisal and use of references, see https://student.oslomet.no/startpakka

BIOB1060 Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) in Health Care, 5 credits, ERGOB1060 Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) in Health Care, 5 credits, FYB1060 Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) in Health Care, 5 credits, RAB1060 Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) in Health Care, 5 credits, SYKK1060 Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) in Health Care, 5 credits, SYKP1060 Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) in Health Care, 5 credits, TAB1060 Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) in Health Care, 5 credits, FARB1060 Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) in Health Care, 5 credits, PMED1060 Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) in Health Care, 5 credits, ORI1060 Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) in Health Care, 5 credits, and VERB1060 Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) in Health Care, 5 credits overlaps 100 %.

Grade scale A-F.

The exam papers are assessed by one internal and one external examiner.

At least 25% of the exam papers will be assessed by two examiners. The grades awarded for the papers assessed by two examiners form the basis for determining the level for all the exam papers.

Hanne Christoffersen and Marit Haldar