CURRICULAR UNIT – RESEARCH METHODS
Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 1st Semester
Código UC nº 560011
OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED
The aims for students acquire skills in of research methodologies, including:
- – Organize a research process;
- – Choose scientific methods appropriate to the research desired;
- – Analyse real-world problems and develop formulations and solutions supported by scientific methods;
- – Prepare the report (dissertation) research
- – Present the results in the investigation
And also, acquire skills in statistical analysis of data, including:
- – Describe statistical principles;
- – Apply statistical methods;
- – Formulate and test hypotheses;
- – Use a statistical analysis tool;
- – Develop analytical skills;
- – apply statistical methodsCritically in different contexts;
- – Develop the capacity of processing and analysis data;
- – to Compare different approaches.
PROGRAM CONTENTS
1. Introduction
- 1.1. the scientific method
- 1.2. the steps of the research
- 1.3. theories, models and paradigms
- 1.4. applied research
2. research project
- 2.1. phases of the research project
- 2.2. issues and research objectives
- 2.3. research methodology
3. Descriptive statistics
- 3.1. population and sample, sampling techniques
- 3.2. important tools for producing surveys / interviews
- 3.3. Measurement scales: nominal, ordinal and numerical (continuous and discrete)
- 3.4. Synthesis of data in tables and graphs
- 3.5. measures of central tendency, position and dispersion
- 3.6. Relationship between variables: correlation and linear regression
- 3.7. notion of probability. Distribution
4. statistics Inferential
- 4.1. estimation and modeling
- 4.2. Hypothesis, parametric and non-parametric tests
- 4.3. Analysis of Variance
- 4.4. Contingency tables. Chi-square test
5. Research report
- 5.1. structure, organization and content of the report
- 5.2. references
6. Oral presentation of research
7. Ethical aspects of research awareness
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