Wetenschappelijke Onderzoeksmethoden


Schedule

Week 1 (36)

Thursday 6 September

09.00-10.45: Methods lecture 1 (ANDRO-C101)

Subject: Introduction to the course & Introduction to Scientific Research & Research Plan, Literature Search and review

Literature (study): Chapters 1, 2, 3 (B), HANDOUTS (slide 38 corrected on 10/09/2012)




Week 2 (37)

Monday 10 september

No Instruction class
15:15-17:00: Methods lecture 2 (AARD-KLEIN)

Subject: Scientific theories, Approaches & Operationalisation. Measurement & Scales.
Literature (study): Chapters 4, 5, 6, 7 (B) HANDOUTS

Tuesday 11 september

13:15-15:00: Workshop 1: Assignment to Teams and Groups, Brainstorm

Thursday 13 september

11.00-12.45: Statistics Lecture 1 (AARD-KLEIN) (HANDOUTS)

Subject: Introduction to Statistics & Descriptive Statistics
Literature (study): Chapters 1, 2, 3 & 4 (G&W)

Saturday 15 september

23:59: Task 1 (SUBMIT)

Week 3 (38)

Monday 17 september

13:15-15:00: Instruction class (EXERCISES, SOLUTIONS)
15:15-17:00: Statistics Lecture 2 (AARD-KLEIN) HANDOUTS

Subject: Scores & Probability distributions

Literature (study): Chapters 5, 6 & 7 (G&W)

Tuesday 18 september

13:15-15:00/15:15-17:00: Workshop 2: Theory and problem statement

Thursday 20 september

11.00-12.45 Statistics lecture 3 (AARD-KLEIN) (HANDOUTS)

Subject: Hypothesis testing

Literature (study): Chapters 8 (except Section 8.6) & 9 (Section 9.1) (G&W)

Saturday 22 september

23:59: Task 2 (SUBMIT)

Week 4 (39)

Monday 24 september

13:15-15:00: Instruction class (EXERCISES, SOLUTIONS)
15:15-17:00: Statistics lecture 4 (AARD-KLEIN) (HANDOUTS)

Subject: t-tests

Literature (study): Chapters 9, 10 & 11 (G&W)

Tuesday 25 september

13:15-15:00/15:15-17:00: Workshop 3: Operationalisation

Thursday 27 september

11.00-12.45 Statistics lecture 5 (AARD-KLEIN) (HANDOUTS)

Subject: Homogeneity & Reliability
Literature (study): Chapter 7 (B)

Saturday 29 september

23:59: Task 3 (SUBMIT)

Week 5 (40)

Monday 1 october

13:15-15:00: Instruction class (EXERCISES, SOLUTIONS)
15:15-17:00: Methods lecture 3 (EDUC-MEGARON) (HANDOUTS)

Subject: Survey research & questionnaire (Ronald Batenburg)

Literature (study): Chapter 9 (B)

Tuesday 2 october

13:15-15:00/15:15-17:00: Workshop 4: questionnaire

Thursday 4 october

08.30-10.30: Intermediate exam (EDUC-GAMMA)

Sunday (!) 7 october

23:59: Task 4 (Send URL of questionnaire to lecturer)

Week 6 (41)

Monday 8 october

NO Instruction class
15:15-17:00: Methods lecture 4 (RUPPERT-BLAUW) (HANDOUTS)

Subject: Reporting, Plagiarism & Fraud

Literature (read): 16 (B)

Tuesday 9 october

NO workshop: online data collection

Thursday 11 october

11.00-12.45: Statistics lecture 6 (ANDRO-C101) (HANDOUTS)

Subject: Correlation & Prediction

Literature (study): Chapter 15 (G&W) (excluding pages 486-497)

Saturday 13 october

23:59: Task 5 (SUBMIT)

Week 7 (42)

Monday 15 october

13:15-15:00: Instruction class (EXERCISES, SOLUTIONS)
15:15-17:00: Statistics lecture 7 (RUPPERT-A) (HANDOUTS)

Subject: ANOVA

Literature (study): Chapter 13 (G&W).
Literature (read): Chapter 14 (G&W)

Tuesday 16 october

13:15-15:00/15:15-17:00: Workshop 6: Data analysis and results

Thursday 18 october

11.00-12.45: Methods lecture 5 (ANDR-C101) (HANDOUTS)

Subject: Sampling design & Experimental Research

Literature (study): Chapters 8 & 10 (B)

Sunday (!) 21 october

23:59: Task 6 (SUBMIT)

Week 8 (43)

Monday 22 october

13:15-15:00: Instruction class (EXERCISES, SOLUTIONS)
15:15-17:00: Statistics lecture 8 (RUPPERT-A) (HANDOUTS)

Subject: Chi-squared test

Literature (study): Chapters 16 (G&W)

Tuesday 23 october

13:15-15:00/15:15-17:00: Workshop 7: Presentation of the results

Thursday 25 october

11.00-12.45: Methods lecture 6 (ANDR-C101) (HANDOUTS)

Subject: Qualitative research & Case study (Slinger Jansen)

Literature (study): Chapter 11 (B)

Sunday (!)  28 october

23:59: Task 7 (SUBMIT)

Week 9 (44)

Monday 29 october

13:15-15:00: Instruction class (EXERCISES, SOLUTIONS)
15:15-17:00: Methods lecture 7 (WENT-GROEN) (HANDOUTS)

Subject: Design Research (Sjaak Brinkemper)
Literature: slides

Tuesday 30 october

13:15-15:00/15:15-17:00: Workshop 8: Completion

Thursday 1 november

11.00-12.45: Statistics lecture 9 (WENT-BLAUW) (HANDOUTS)

Subject: Q&A

Sunday (!) 4 november

23:59: Task 8 (SUBMIT)

Week 10 (45)

Thursday 8 november

08:30-10:30: Final exam (EDUC-GAMMA)