5N3113: You Are Required To Carry Out Secondary Research On ‘Stress And How It Impacts On The Physical And Mental Health Of Individuals In Society: Research And Study Skills Assignment, TCD, Ireland

BRIEF

1. You are required to carry out secondary research on ‘Stress and how it impacts on the physical and mental health of individuals in society.

2. You must design and distribute 10 questionnaires to explore people’s attitudes and opinions on the factors that they feel contribute to increasing stress rates in society.

3. You must present key findings in a form of diagrams, graphs etc

4. Work must be referenced using the Harvard system of referencing and bibliography to be included.

SKILLS DEMONSTRATION CONTENT:
1. Gather relevant information systematically from primary and current secondary sources including library systems, ICT systems, Internet and quantitative data such as statistical tables, diagrams, graphs and charts. (L.O.5)

2. Demonstrate ability to use mathematical skills involved in sampling, averaging and data representation. (L.O.6). Learners will do this by:
• Selecting a suitable sampling technique
• Highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the technique selected
• Calculate the mean, mode of research findings

4. Demonstrate ability to use a variety of presentation strategies appropriate for assessment conditions (L.0.11) Do this by providing the following:
• An introduction
• Supporting evidence
• Paragraphs/sections
• Headings
• Conclusions

5. Exploit personal learning styles and a range of learning techniques (L.0.9). To do this the learner should understand the basis of the following learning styles and learning techniques:
• Visual
• Social
• Solidarity
• Mind maps
• Kinaesthetic Intelligence
• Musical intelligence