You are asked to produce a report, which consists of three activities:

Section 1. Please provide a detailed critique of at least two well-used research methodologies.
Section 2. Please construct a research instrument that could be used to collect data in your capstone project. You will not be collecting any data – just designing the tool.
Section 3. Please reflect upon the audience and critical aspects of research dissemination in the specific

context of your potential research findings and outcomes from the developed instrument. Should you fail the assessment at the first attempt and be referred to retake the coursework, only the failed individual elements will need to be reworked, with 10% of the re-sit mark awarded for an additional reflective
statement demonstrating how you learned from the feedback and what you did differently the second time.

The final report should be submitted via Moodle to a turn-it-in box and will be graded according to the following marking criteria (see more instructions on the writing of the above sections outlined under “Structure and presentation” below):
Section 1 – Clarity and Justification of
research problem

Section 1 – For the literature analysis,
breadth and depth of explored research
with a clear focus emerging

Section 1 – Critique of two specific
research methods

Section 2 – Demonstration of the proposed
research instrument’s potential for new
knowledge generation and rigor in
deduction of conclusions