Table of Contents
- Section 1 Time management
- Time management checklist
- Section 2 Introduction to the Investigation
- What is the Child Studies Investigation?
- The procedures involved in preparing an Investigation
- Verification of own work
- SACE word-count policy
- Student research policy
- Keys to doing well
- Assessment design criteria and specific features
- Investigation and critical analysis
- Evaluation
- How the Investigation is assessed
- Performance standards
- Advice before starting your Investigation
- Section checkpoint
- Section 3 Getting started
- Background research
- Choosing an issue
- Formulating a hypothesis or research question
- Focusing questions
- Performance standards
- Advice before starting your Investigation
- Section checkpoint
- Section 4 Researching your contemporary issue
- Sources of information
- Primary sources
- Collecting data
- Surveys and questionnaires
- Planning survey questions
- Interviews
- Secondary sources
- Referencing
- Harvard or in-text referencing
- Footnoting
- Reference list
- Section checkpoint
- Section 5 Analysis and evaluation
- Sorting through your information
- Analysing your information
- Bias
- Evaluating
- Review your information before writing
- Section checkpoint
- Section 6 Writing the Investigation
- Structure of the Investigation
- Drafting
- How to write the introduction
- How to write the body of the Investigation
- How to present primary data
- Survey or observational data
- How to write the conclusion of the Investigation
- Reference list
- Section checkpoint
- Section 7 Final checklists
- Final study checklist
- Verification sheet checklist