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This document provides guidance for Assignment 1 of the BTEC Level 5 HND Diploma in Computing unit on computing research projects. Students must submit a research proposal and two reports that follow the provided structure. The first report should include an introduction, literature review examining research methodologies and the topic, primary research methodology and results, analysis of findings, and reporting of key results. The second report should confirm or reject initial hypotheses, provide recommendations, and include all appendices from the research process. Students are assessed based on learning outcomes of examining, conducting, and analyzing appropriate research methods and clearly communicating results.

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Assignment 1-Guided

This document provides guidance for Assignment 1 of the BTEC Level 5 HND Diploma in Computing unit on computing research projects. Students must submit a research proposal and two reports that follow the provided structure. The first report should include an introduction, literature review examining research methodologies and the topic, primary research methodology and results, analysis of findings, and reporting of key results. The second report should confirm or reject initial hypotheses, provide recommendations, and include all appendices from the research process. Students are assessed based on learning outcomes of examining, conducting, and analyzing appropriate research methods and clearly communicating results.

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ASSIGNMENT 1 BRIEF

Qualification BTEC Level 5 HND Diploma in Computing

Unit number UNIT 13: Computing Research Project

Assignment title Proposing and conducting a research project

Academic Year 2020 – 2021

Unit Tutor Vo Ngoc Mai

Issue date Submission date

IV name and date

Submission Format:

Format: The submission is in the form of 1 document


You must use font Calibri size 12, set number of the pages and use multiple line spacing at
1.3. Margins must be: left: 1.25 cm; right: 1 cm; top: 1 cm and bottom: 1 cm. The reference
follows Harvard referencing system.
Submission Students are compulsory to submit the assignment in due date and in a way requested by
the Tutors. The form of submission will be a soft copy posted on
http://cms.greenwich.edu.vn/
Note: The Assignment must be your own work, and not copied by or from another student or from
books etc. If you use ideas, quotes or data (such as diagrams) from books, journals or other sources, you
must reference your sources, using the Harvard style. Make sure that you know how to reference
properly, and that understand the guidelines on plagiarism. If you do not, you definitely get failed

Unit Learning Outcomes:

LO1 Examine appropriate research methodologies and approaches as part of the research process
LO2 Conduct and analyse research relevant for a computing research project
LO3 Communicate the outcomes of a research project to identified stakeholders

Assignment Brief and Guidance:

Guidances
Notice:

You have to set you own research question in the research proposal base on the previous range of topic.
The research question must be specific enough example: the audience of the research(job, age..), kind of
devices(personal devices, household appliances…)

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The recommended outputs of the research are two reports. The first report should cover at least the
following sections:

I. Introduction the purpose of the research


Introduce the research’ purpose, main aims and objectives of the project. What the research will
do and don’t
P1: appropriate research question, aim, related documents in the research proposal(Linked to
section 5)

[Mai Vo]

I. Introduction

i. Background
ii. Research’s main aims and objectives
iii. Scope and limitations

II. Literature review


i. Discuss research Methodologies: primary research, secondary research, qualitative,
quantitative, scientific method, research processes, population in research…
ii. Specify which research methods will be used to carried out the research
iii. Do a secondary research about
i. Internet of things: Internet of Things and related products
ii. AI in your selected topic(for example: the relationship of Internet of Things and
Big Data)
iv. Conclusion, propose initial hypothesis after the literature review and need to confirm
in primary research

P2: clearly discuss previous methodologies with examples, academic references

[Mai Vo]

II. Literature review

1. [Do a secondary research about


i. Internet of things: Internet of Things and related products
ii. AI in your selected topic(for example: the relationship of Internet of Things and
Big Data)]
2. Conclusion, propose initial hypothesis after the literature review and need to confirm
in primary research

III. Research Methodologies

1. Primary research vs. secondary research


2. Qualitative vs quantitative
3. Scientific method
4. Research processes
5. Population in research

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6. Conclusion, propose the choice of methods selected

M1: justifications for the choice of methods selected based on philosophical/theoretical


frameworks which can be seen in [section 2 and 3]

III. Primary research


i. Design of primary research: which techniques will be used to collect data such as
interview, questionnaire, experiment,..; the population of the research. All the data
collected in this stage must be supplied in the appendix

P3: clearly provide evidence of carryout primary research in [section 3] and in [section 2]

[Mai Vo]

IV. Primary research

1. Design of primary research


2. Introduction to the population of the research
3. Survey results (evidences)
4. Summarize (in Excel format)

M2: Discuss merits, limitations and pitfalls of approaches to data collection and analysis

D1: Critically evaluate research methodologies and processes and use it effectively which can
be seen in secondary research and primary research

IV. Analyse the result of the primary research

P4: Effective using analytical tools to analyse research findings and data

[Mai Vo]

V. Analyze the result of the primary research


1. Descriptive statistics
a. Mean, Standard Deviation, Variance
b. Scatter Plots
c. Histogram
2. Summarize

P5: Report the findings

[Mai Vo]

VI. Report the findings

1. Summary of key findings


2. Make suggestions
V. It should confirm or reject the hypothesis in the literature part with appropriate
justification

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VI. Provide recommendations for improving the system or future research which could
enhance the results of the current research.

M3:

VII. Effectively suggest the research’s results to some audience(how it is useful for them)

D2: Excellent research with useful findings and recommendations

VIII. Approved project proposal-appendix


IX. Approved project plan-appendix
X. Ethical form
XI. Other materials which collected while conducting primary research: interview scripts,
audio, experiment notes-appendix

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Learning Outcomes and Assessment Criteria

Pass Merit Distinction

LO1 Examine appropriate research methodologies and approaches as part of


the research process

LO1 & 2
P1 Produce a research proposal that M1 Evaluate different research
clearly defines a research question or approaches and methodology and D1 Critically evaluate research
hypothesis supported by a literature make justifications for the choice of methodologies and processes in
review. methods selected based on application to a computing research
philosophical/theoretical frameworks. project to justify chosen research
methods and analysis.
P2 Examine appropriate research
methods and approaches to primary
and secondary research.

LO2 Conduct and analyse research relevant for a computing research


project

P3 Conduct primary and secondary M2 Discuss merits, limitations and


research using appropriate methods pitfalls of approaches to data
for a computing research project that collection and analysis.
consider costs, access and ethical
issues.

P4 Apply appropriate analytical tools,


analyse research findings and data.

LO3 Communicate the outcomes of a research project to identified D2 Communicate critical


stakeholders analysis of the outcomes and
make valid, justified
recommendations.
P5 Communicate research outcomes M3 Coherently and logically
in an appropriate manner for the communicate outcomes to the
intended audience. intended audience demonstrating
how outcomes meet set research
objectives.

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