課程介紹
Course description：To learn how to choose a research topic, conduct a literature review, set up a theoretical framework, design questionnaires, analyzing data statistically, and write a research report. The students will join a team to practice a research project.
教科書:
Textbook: Research Methodology: A step-by-step guide for beginners, by Ranjit Kumar, 2014, Sage. ISBN: 978-1-4462-6997-8.
教學進度:
1. 2/22: (1) Research: a way of thinking
2. 3/01: Flexible holiday (need to make-up class)
3. 3/08: (2) The research process: a quick glance, (3) Reviewing the literature
4. 3/15: (4, 5) Formulating a research problem, identifying variables
5. 3/22: (6) Constructing hypotheses, (7) The research design
6. 3/29: (8) Selecting a study design
7. 4/05: Holiday
8. 4/12: (9) Selecting a method of data collection
Project proposal due (at least 5 journal articles)
9. 4/19: (10 & 11) Collecting data using attitudinal scales, Establishing the validity and reliability of a research instrument
10. 4/26: (14) Considering ethical issues in data collection
11. 5/03: Midterm-exam ( chapter 1 to 11, 14)
12. 5/10: Oral presentation for mid-progress of class project.
13. 5/17: Oral presentation for mid-progress of class project.
14. 5/24: (15) Processing data
15. 5/31: (16) Displaying dat
16. 6/07: Dragon Boat Holiday
17. 6/14: Oral presentation for the final report.
18. 6/21: Oral presentation for the final report. Group-project final report due.
2. 3/01: Flexible holiday (need to make-up class)
3. 3/08: (2) The research process: a quick glance, (3) Reviewing the literature
4. 3/15: (4, 5) Formulating a research problem, identifying variables
5. 3/22: (6) Constructing hypotheses, (7) The research design
6. 3/29: (8) Selecting a study design
7. 4/05: Holiday
8. 4/12: (9) Selecting a method of data collection
Project proposal due (at least 5 journal articles)
9. 4/19: (10 & 11) Collecting data using attitudinal scales, Establishing the validity and reliability of a research instrument
10. 4/26: (14) Considering ethical issues in data collection
11. 5/03: Midterm-exam ( chapter 1 to 11, 14)
12. 5/10: Oral presentation for mid-progress of class project.
13. 5/17: Oral presentation for mid-progress of class project.
14. 5/24: (15) Processing data
15. 5/31: (16) Displaying dat
16. 6/07: Dragon Boat Holiday
17. 6/14: Oral presentation for the final report.
18. 6/21: Oral presentation for the final report. Group-project final report due.
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