RSNE4900 – Master's thesis in Research in Special Needs Education

The RSNE master's thesis is a scientific work relevant to the field of special education and inclusion. The work includes planning and implementing a research project, and reporting on this through a thesis in which the student shows insight into current research, theory and methods of relevance to the thesis.

The task must be developed as an independent research project, although it can be related to the current research at the Department of Special Needs Education. The project can be either an empirical study or theoretical research. The thesis can also be linked to professional development project and / or an evaluation project.

Two students can collaborate on a project, either through data collection, or cowriting as long as the projects allows.

• When collaborating on data collection, each student must write their own individual thesis and will each be given an individual grade.
• If the students choses to cowrite a master's thesis, they will be given a common grade. The exception to this is if a systematic literature review is conducted, which requires at least two reviewer.

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Knowledge

After completing the course, you should have gained:

• knowledge about planning and implementing a rigorous and theoretically sound research project
• knowledge about ethical, sustainable, compassionate and inclusive research processes

Skills

After completing the course, you should be able to:

• carry out an independent research work in the form of a thesis.

General competence

After completing the course, you should have gained:

• competence in making a critical assessment of quality, validity, reflexivity, and relevance of research works.
• competence in formulating a relevant and original research question and designing the best methodological approach

The teaching consists of lectures and supervision. Some of the teaching takes place in the 2nd semester of the master's programme.

Compulsory activities:

• Research application
• Research proposal
• Course in privacy protection
• Attendance at compulsory lectures

The assignment of supervisors is based on the project application. The research proposal must be passed in order to proceed with supervision. The compulsory activities must be completed and approved before you are allowed to submit the thesis.

The compulsory and are valid for three years.

Refer to the guidelines for attendance in compulsory teaching sessions.

The exam is the submission of the master's Thesis.

Individual submission. The master’s thesis can be submitted as a monograph or an article based thesis.

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