Assessment 4 - Final Report

Pre-Service Teacher:
Mentor Teacher:
School:
Year level:
Knowledge I have gained as a result of my volunteer experience:
Areas I have identified for practise and improvement:
Mentor comment (optional):

If your volunteer pre-service teacher is an international student at Flinders, please comment on their spoken
and written English, and preparedness for teaching in a school setting.
Signature (Mentor):
Signature (Pre-Service Teacher):
EDUC9137 – FINAL REPORT – VOLUNTEERING EXPERIENCE
EDUC9137 – Assessment 4 Philosophy Statement (Part A)

The research project asks you to 'Investigate an aspect of education and its social consequences and/or
character'.
It is worth considering the following essay structure as a guide:
1. Title: (A good idea is to use your key research question as a title for your paper. For instance,
“What do standardised tests really test? An exploration of Australia’s current ‘testing culture’)
2. Primary source: (provide the name and brief details. If you have a link to an online source,
please provide this also)
3. Key words: (3-5 words that encapsulate the issues you are exploring – note how academic
journal articles do this)
4. Introduction (approximately 5-10% of your total word count): introduce the paper and the
central issue being investigated (indicate its importance or significance). Include a succinct
statement about your primary source and the lens you are using to analyse it (i.e. the lens of
gender, race, class, neoliberalism, social justice, etc.), and indicate your thesis statement (i.e.
your main argument).
5. Literature review (approximately 30% of your total word count): A critical overview of the
existing research, i.e. what do the secondary sources say about the issue you have chosen to
investigate?
6. Description and analysis of the artefact (approximately 40% of your total word count): What
does the artefact source tell us about the issue? What is clearly evident and what remains
implicit? What question have you raised in relation to your artefact, and how does the academic
literature help you answer it? Intertwine your findings with the current literature to build an
argument.
7. Implications for practice (approximately one to two paragraphs): unpack links between theory
and practice. For example, what does this research mean, in concrete terms, for your future
practice as an educator? In this section, ensure that you incorporate a discussion of Australian
Professional Standards for Teachers Focus Areas 1.3, 2.4 and 3.3 (see Rubric below). This
section may also be linked to appendices if useful.
8. Conclusion (approximately 5-10% of your total word count): Reiterate what the paper has been
about, return to your key research question, highlight key findings, indicate any future research
that is required, and close the conversation down.
9. Reference list: standard format, alphabetised, only include references in this list that have been
directly cited or paraphrased in-text.
Presentation points:
 Recommended length: 2000-2500 words (your final reference list and appendices, if included,
are not counted).
 Quotations and reference to the literature to be in standard form – an adequate mix of direct
quotations and paraphrasing is expected. Always include page numbers for direct quotations, and
author/date details for paraphrases. A reference list is required.
 Students are reminded of Flinders University’s policy on academic dishonesty and plagiarism.
Students who contravene this policy will be severely penalised and may fail the topic – if in
doubt, seek help.
 Assignments must be proofread to correct spelling errors and grammar as these mistakes will
jeopardise your marks.

Steps Required for the Research Project Essay
Step 1: Choose a general issue. In the organising statement there is a key word: ‘social’. The project must be
based on the concerns of this topic. Sociology of education and policy studies are the main fields of
educational study that sustain this topic and should help define your project.
Step 2: Search for relevant secondary sources and decide on a research question (provide lots of time to craft
your research question as can be harder than it sounds)
Step 3: Collect a primary source. Steps 2 and 3 are interchangeable.
Step 4: Your research project should be presented in essay format using sub-headings.
Step 5: Check your essay against the rubric below to ensure all key requirements have been met
Step 6: Do not use Ai for this assignment. Turnitin reports will be viewed for all submissions.
Step 7: Submit your research project to Canvas

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Pre-Service Teacher:

Knowledge I have gained as a result of my volunteer experience:

Areas I have identified for practise and improvement:

Mentor comment (optional):

Signature (Pre-Service Teacher):

EDUC9137 – FINAL REPORT – VOLUNTEERING EXPERIENCE

EDUC9137 – Assessment 4 Philosophy Statement (Part A)

EDUC9137 – Assessment 4 Philosophy Statement (Part A)

EDUC9137 – Assessment 4 Philosophy Statement (Part A)

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