Weekly Assingment 20% Midterm Assingment 20% Final Assngment and presentation 30% Weekly Objectives. Objectives Activities Reading Homework Introduction 1 Lecture and discussion Chap. 1 Focused questions Phylosophical approaches for academic research Developing proposals of an individual Lectures: research Models of the research Focused questions Chap. 2 -focus on the research topic process 2 Research topics Thesis -developing the research questions Discussion: and questions -establishing hypothesis using Individual research topics and literature and own practices. questions Presentation own research topics and Finalizing Choosing a research strategy questions. research topics -explore experimental methodology Lecture: and questions 3 -survey methodology Chap 3 Different of research Focused questions case study methodology methodology Evaluation of -establishing trustworthiness research Discussion methodologies. Research methodologies used in other research reports. Presentation: About own research Redesigning own Looking for Experimental Design methodology. research -Experimentation and Causality Lecture: methodologies. -Laboratory Experiments and the Real chap. 4 4 of experimental design Focused questions World Articles and its pros and cons. Analysis of -Field Experiments experimental Discussion: -True and quasi experimental design designs Self analysis of different types of experimental design -Rationales for -Presentation Designing Surveys using or not using Redesigned experimental -Concepts of surveys experimental design. -Pros and Cons of survyes Chap. 5 design. -Lectures: 5 -Types of surveys Articles -Focused Different types of survey, pros -Ways of sampling. questions and cons, selecting samples, -Eliciting questions for survey -Analysis of and making questions. surveys
Weekly Assingment 20% Midterm Assingment 20% Final Assngment and presentation 30% Weekly Objectives. Objectives Activities Reading Homework 1 Introduction Phylosophical approaches for academic research Lecture and discussion Chap. 1 Focused questions 2 Developing proposals of an individual research -focus on the research topic -developing the research questions -establishing hypothesis using literature and own practices. Lectures: Models of the research process Discussion: Individual research topics and questions Chap. 2 Thesis Focused questions Research topics and questions 3 Choosing a research strategy -explore experimental methodology -survey methodology case study methodology -establishing trustworthiness Presentation own research topics and questions. Lecture: Different of research methodology Discussion Research methodologies used in other research reports. Chap 3 Finalizing research topics and questions Focused questions Evaluation of research methodologies. 4 Looking for Experimental Design -Experimentation and Causality -Laboratory Experiments and the Real World -Field Experiments -True and quasi experimental design Presentation: About own research methodology. Lecture: of experimental design and its pros and cons. Discussion: Self analysis of different types of experimental design chap. 4 Articles Redesigning own research methodologies. Focused questions Analysis of experimental designs 5 Designing Surveys -Concepts of surveys -Pros and Cons of survyes -Types of surveys -Ways of sampling. -Eliciting questions for survey -Presentation Redesigned experimental design. -Lectures: Different types of survey, pros and cons, selecting samples, and making questions. Chap. 5 Articles -Rationales for using or not using experimental design. -Focused questions -Analysis of surveys