FF:PBM008 Quantitative research - Course Information
PBM008 Quantitative research
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Tomáš Lintner, MA (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Petr Hlaďo, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Martin Sedláček, Ph.D. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Petr Hlaďo, Ph.D.
Department of Educational Sciences – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Kateřina Zelená
Supplier department: Department of Educational Sciences – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Mon 10:00–11:40 B2.24, except Mon 18. 11. to Sun 24. 11.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 6/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Social Education and Counselling (programme FF, N-PD)
- Course objectives
- The course prepares students to be not only critical consumers but also conscious producers of research, and to apply quantitative research in their practice.
- Learning outcomes
- Students will be able to define and explain the basic principles of quantitative research.
Students will learn criteria for evaluating the quality of scientific research.
Students will gain skills in planning and designing research projects.
Students will understand the significance of constructs and learn to formulate hypotheses.
Students will learn various data collection methods and be able to select appropriate methods for their research.
Students will gain skills in conducting descriptive data analysis.
Students will learn to effectively visualize data using various graphical methods.
Students will gain skills in conducting inferential data analysis. - Syllabus
- 1. The practice of Social research: model of research, data, data analysis.
- 2. Purposes of research – stadium conducted researches
- 2. Research problems.
- 2. Research questions.
- 3. Methods, participants.
- 4. Instruments and procedures.
- 5. Data collecting.
- 6. Data analysis.
- 7. Research report.
- Literature
- recommended literature
- HUNTINGTON-KLEIN, Nick. The Effect : an introduction to research design and causality. First edition. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group, 2022, xxvi, 619. ISBN 9781032127453. info
- JENSEN, Eric Allen and Charles LAURIE. Doing real research : a practical guide to social research. First published. Los Angeles: Sage, 2016, xxiii, 374. ISBN 9781446273883. info
- ŘEHÁK, Jan and Ondřej BROM. SPSS - praktická analýza dat. 1. vydání. Brno: Computer Press, 2015, 336 stran. ISBN 9788025146095. info
- Úvod do metodologie psychologického výzkumu : jak zkoumat lidskou duši. Translated by Petr Bakalář, Illustrated by Ján Ferjenčík. Vyd. 2. Praha: Portál, 2010, 255 s. ISBN 9788073678159. URL info
- HENDL, Jan. Přehled statistických metod zpracování dat : analýza a metaanalýza dat. Vydání druhé, opravené. Praha: Portál, 2006, 583 stran. ISBN 8073671239. info
- DISMAN, Miroslav. Jak se vyrábí sociologická znalost. Praha: Karolinum, 1993, 374 s. ISBN 80-7066-822-9. info
- LAZARSFELD, Paul Felix. On social research and its language. Edited by Raymond Boudon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993, vii, 333. ISBN 0226469638. info
- KERLINGER, Freed N. Základy výzkumu chování : pedagogický a psychologický výzkum : Foundations of behavioral research : educational and psychological inquiry (Orig.). Translated by V. Smékal. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1972, 705 s. info
- Teaching methods
- Weekly lessons requiring active participation supported by weekly e-learning support.
- Assessment methods
- weekly tests & final written test
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught each semester.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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