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General information

 

Course unit name: Final Project

Course unit code: 569270

Academic year: 2023-2024

Coordinator: Ana Engel Rocamora

Department: Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology

Credits: 10

Single program: S

 

 

Estimated learning time

Total number of hours 250

 

Supervised project

10

Independent learning

240

 

 

Learning objectives

 

Referring to knowledge

Acquire specialised knowledge in the subject of the dissertation (Treball Final de Master or TFM).

 

Use the TFM to integrate the knowledge acquired throughout the Master’s degree.

 

Show a responsible and committed attitude throughout the preparation of the TFM.

 

Referring to abilities, skills

Select, organise and summarise information.

 

Be innovative and creative in the approach taken to the subject of the dissertation.

 

Write a report that observes the academic and scientific conventions used in this field.

 

Defend the project orally in a style that is organised, clear and fluent.

 

 Use tables and figures appropriately in written texts and oral presentations.

 

Be able to defend the stance taken in the TFM and be able to answer questions about the dissertation.

 

Referring to attitudes, values and norms

Demonstrate ethical commitment and professional responsibility.

 

 

Teaching blocks

 

1. Specialist tracks in Psychoeducational Intervention/Psychoeducational Counselling in Secondary Education

*  Students complete the TFM by writing one of the following:

a) An analysis of professional practice of which the student has first-hand experience or of the theoretical principles that underpinned that practice implicitly or explicitly.

b) Identification of examples of "best practices" in the professional service where they completed their internship, presenting arguments that justify this consideration.

c) A reasoned and adequately justified proposal for improving some aspect of the professional service where they completed their internship, presenting arguments that justify this need.

In each case, it is essential that students draw on the knowledge acquired during the Master’s degree to justify their analyses and the proposals they make.

2. Specialist track in Psychoeducational Research

*  Students have the option of completing their TFM in one of two ways. The first is designed for students wishing to take a PhD degree. The second is aimed primarily at students who, while not wishing to study for a PhD, would like to acquire more experience of psychoeducational research.

a) TFM oriented towards PhD research. In this case, the student must demonstrate the ability to formulate an appropriate research problem and show how they would go about addressing it. Essentially, the student is being asked to write a PhD thesis proposal centred on one of the lines of research identified during their internship.

b) TFM oriented towards gaining experience of research. Students not wishing to study for a PhD have the option of writing: 

  • A report on a subject, concept or problem related to the line of research or research project addressed during their internship.
  • A literature review examining the relevance, authority, currency and robustness of conceptual and empirical studies on a subject, concept or problem related to the line of research or research project addressed during their internship. 

 

 

Official assessment of learning outcomes

 

Students obtaining a final grade of 9 or more, may, at the discretion of the faculty, be awarded a ’matrícula d’honor’, albeit that no more than 5% of the students enrolled on the course can receive this award.

Student assignments must be original work. Students copying on a test or plagiarising in a written assignment will be deemed to be in breach of the student code and automatically failed (see Article 16.7 and the annex to the Regulations governing the teaching, assessment and grading of learning at the University of Barcelona: http://www.ub.edu/acad/noracad/avaluacio_2020.pdf).

The TFM is presented and defended in public before a panel of three MIPE professors.

Prior to the public defence of the TFM, the academic tutor of each of the students must submit a brief evaluation report to the president of the tribunal explicitly authorizing the public defence of the TFM. The report may include a reasoned proposal for grading (on a scale of 0 to 10) based on the strengths and weaknesses (if any) of the student’s work. In this case, the president makes the academic tutor’s report known to the other members of the panel once the presentation of the TFM has been completed and prior to the final grading.

To ensure that no TFM deemed unsuitable or incomplete is presented and defended in public, three days before the constitution of the tribunal the members should notify the president of their conclusions in relation to this matter. If the members and the president are of one mind, the president informs the student, the student’s tutor and the MIPE Coordinating Committee, and the TFM cannot be defended.

Each student has a maximum of fifteen minutes to defend their TFM, after which the tribunal may ask questions and make comments. The intervention of each member on the tribunal cannot exceed five minutes. Each student has a maximum of ten minutes to respond to the tribunal’s comments and questions.

On completion, the president publishes the marks awarded and forwards them to the MIPE Coordinating Commission together with the tutors’ assessment reports. The TFM is assessed on a scale from 0 to 10. The grading of the TFM takes into account the following: quality of content, structure and organization, formal aspects and oral presentation.

Assessment considers:

  • Aspects related to the content of the written work.
    • Clarity of the structure of the text (presentation of the study objectives, development and conclusions).
    • Coherence in the organization and development of ideas (clear thread).
    • Precision and clarity of thinking (the presentation of ideas is fluid and shows control of content).
    • Conceptual correction of ideas.
    • Level of reflection and depth of conclusions.
    • Topical relevance of information sources.
  • Formal aspects of the written work.
    • Writing (connectors between paragraphs, syntax, punctuation, vocabulary, spelling, etc.). Bibliographic references and citations (use of APA criteria).
    • Length of TFM (between 16,000 and 10,000 words).
    • Presentation (cover, titles, subtitles, font size and type, line spacing, etc.).
  •  Aspects related to the oral presentation of the work.
    • Organization and clarity of the oral presentation.
    • Quality of the visual presentation (PowerPoint or similar).
    • Presentation skills (tone and volume of voice, posture, gesticulation).
    • Duration (within fifteen minute schedule).

 

Examination-based assessment

Given the characteristics of this subject, only one assessment mode is available.