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We are currently developing a searchable database of RSD rubrics. A trial version is available here! If you notice any problems or have suggestions for improving the database, please let us know.
A copy of Peggy Nightingale's interim report on the RSD is available here.
Eleanor Peirce, Mario Ricci and John Willison are presenting the paper 'Towards student autonomy in literature and field research' at HERDSA 2009 (7-9 July).
Research Skill Development and Assessment in the Curriculum
Click to download the RSD Handbook. 87 pages, with examples from 10 disciplines in 5 universities.
Welcome to the Research Skill Development (RSD) Homepage. This site provides a growing number of examples, from a variety of disciplines, of assessment tasks that were generated by the Research Skill Development framework.
The RSD framework is a conceptual model for academics, tutors, teachers and students to use in discipline-specific and context-specific ways. It is designed to include literature, laboratory, field and integrated research skill development and has been used in the Sciences, Engineering, Professions and Health Sciences, and its use is planned for in Humanities and Social Sciences.
The Research Skills Development (RSD) framework describes and informs the coherent, explicit and efficient development of student research skills, with examples here from both the undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Use of RSD materials
All information and documents on this site are freely available for direct use or, better, for adaptation to your context. We do request, however, that you inform us about your evaluation of the use of any RSD-based materials and provide any word documents that you have modified so that we may add them to this site for the benefit of all. The re-development of this site was enabled by a University of Adelaide Learning and Teaching Grant and an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Grant.
To cite the RSD, please use the following: Willison, J., and O'Regan, K. (2006). The Research Skill Development Framework. Accessed from http://www.adelaide.edu.au/clpd/rsd/framework
Website devised by John Willison. Designed by Nicholas Cornish. Maintained by Kerrie Le Lievre. Last updated on 12 August 2009.
Unless otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Australia Licence.
Support for this project website is being provided by The Australian Learning and Teaching Council, an initiative of the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. The views expressed in the project do not necessarily reflect the views of The Australian Learning and Teaching Council.
