Welcome
This is the website for the course INFOWO (Wetenschappelijke
onderzoeksmethoden), which translates as Scientific Research
Methods in English.
News
- (21/11/2012) The final grades for the second exam, the
practical part and the end grade for the course can be found
here.
You will have the opportunity to inspect your second exam on
Wednesday Dec 12 , between 14:00 and 15:30 in
BBL-518. (This was originally scheduled on Dec 5, but has
been postponed until Dec 12)
- (06/11/2012) Some more info on the lambda's (Proportional
Reduction in Error) of Statistics lecture 8 can be found in
this text
(pages 606-607).
- (01/11/2012) Some remarks about the second exam of Nov 8:
- The study material for the exam consists of:
- All lectures (Methods and Statistics) from Monday Oct
1 to and including Thursday Nov 1 (handouts plus the
literature mentioned in the schedule
for those lectures)
- All exercise classes up from Monday Oct 15 to and
including Monday Oct 29. (See the Schedule page for the PDF's)
- Closed book, so no papers, notes, laptops, tablets, mobile phones.
- Bring a calculator (not necessarily fancy, but must be able to calculate basic arithmetic and square roots)
- A graphical calculator is allowed.
- A paper with formula's will be provided (see here).
- Copies of Tables B2, B4 and B7 from the G&W book will be provided.
- (01/11/2012) The final paper has to be submitted
electronically and physically. For the electronic submission
the deadline is as mentioned in SUBMIT. The
paper copy must be submitted before Thursday Nov 8 in my
postbox in room BBL-513. If you have received a paper copy
of your draft paper with remarks made by the assistant, you
have to hand that in as well. For requirements on what you
have to submit see the instruction
manual.
- (19/10/2012) You will have the opportunity to inspect your
intermediate exam on Thursday Nov 1, between 14:00 and 15.30
in BBL-518.
- (17/10/2012) The results of the intermediate exam are online here.
- (11/10/2012) If you've never used SPSS before: The G&W
book has quite some information on how to use SPSS. Appendix
D has general instructions for using SPSS (data formats,
data entry, etc.) and every chapter has a section on how to
use SPSS for the particular analysis of that chapter.
- (08/10/2012) The list with questionnaires is online!
It has been updated twice, so make sure you refresh your
browser to get the correct version!
- (01/10/2012) I have added a mini example of an intermediate test.
- (27/09/2012) Some remarks about the intermediate exam of Oct 4:
- The study material for the exam consists of:
- All lectures (Methods and Statistics) up to and
including Thursday Sept 27 (handouts plus the literature
mentioned in the schedule
for those lectures)
- All exercise classes up to and including Monday Oct 1.
(See the Schedule page
for the PDF's)
- Closed book, so no papers, notes, laptops, tablets, mobile phones.
- Bring a calculator (not necessarily fancy, but must be able to calculate basic arithmetic and square roots)
- A graphical calculator is allowed.
- A paper with formula's will be provided (see here).
- Copies of Tables B1 and B2 from the G&W book will be
provided.
- A good preparation for the exam is to study the
exercises from the exercise classes, the exercises in the
G&W book, and the exercises on the companion website
to the book.
- (25/09/2012) Handouts and the solutions to the exercises for Sept 24 are online.
- (24/09/2012) The links to the handouts of Sept 13 and 17
have been corrected.
- (18/09/2012) The solutions to the first set of exercises are online, and so are the handouts to the 2nd statistics lecture.
- (13/09/2012) The exercises
for the first exercise class are online.
- (13/09/2012) The handouts
of the first statistics lecture are online. Some students
may be unfamiliar with the mathematical notation that is
used, for instance, in the formulas for mean and variance.
They may benefit from reading Section 1.5 in the G&W
book, that discusses this in more detail. They should
definitely also practice with Problems 18-22 in Chapter 1 of
the G&W book.
- (11/09/2012) I would appreciate if the person who during
the workshop accidentally borrowed my pen (which has two
tips, one ballpoint and one blank) would return it to me.
He/she can drop it in my postbox in BBL-513.
- (11/09/2012) The list of teams and groups is online here. Note that this is the
assignment to groups that you will have to use to find the
rooms for the workshops in Osiris and on the education
page! Check your team name, since this is the name
that you have to use for the remainder of the course, and it
may be different from the one you were given initially this
afternoon.
- (10/09/2012) Slide 38 (last example) in the handouts of the first
methods lecture has been corrected
- (10/09/2012) This
announcement mail about the start of the research
workshops was sent out. Note that the research workshop
start on Sept 11 at 13:15 in BBL-083.
- (06/09/2012) The topics for lectures of 10 and 13 sept
were swapped, see schedule.
- (04/09/2012) This
announcement mail was sent to all students who registered
for the course.
- (28/08/2012) The instruction manual for the workshops is online.
- (27/08/2012) The complete schedule
is online.
- (05/07/2012) The mandatory literature for the course can
be found on the Structure
page.
Questionnaire
- The questionnaire for the course can be found here
(opens new tab). Please take some time to fill in your data!