FF:PAMK004 Quantitative Research - Course Information
PAMK004 Quantitative Research
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 10/8/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Martin Sedláček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Petr Hlaďo, 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 - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Course objectives
- In this practically focused course, students work in teams from choosing a topic, defining a problem and hypothesis, creating observation proceedings or measurement tools to a probe into characteristics of a pre-research where they prove their ability to evaluate data and to elaborate a final report. Furthermore, students individually elaborate reviews on reports of other teams.
- Learning outcomes
- After finishing the course, students are able to demonstrate the main way of doing a quantitative survey.:
- purpose the research project with all the requisites;
- formulate a research problem;
- describe data collection;
- apply analytical procedures;
- write a research report.
The second level is the completion of the knowledge of previous methodological courses. Graduates will be able to recognize and assess the strengths and weaknesses of the researches. - 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
- required literature
- BLAIKIE, Norman W. H. Designing social research : the logic of anticipation. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2010, ix, 298. ISBN 9780745643380. info
- Advanced Lazarsfeldian methodology. Edited by Hynek Jeřábek - Petr Soukup. 1st ed. Prague: Karolinum, 2008, 250 s. ISBN 9788024615219. info
- MAREŠ, Petr, Ladislav RABUŠIC and Petr SOUKUP. Analýza sociálněvědních dat (nejen) v SPSS (Data analysis in social sciences (using SPSS)). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2015, 508 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-6362-4. Projekty Nakladatelství Munipress info
- DISMAN, Miroslav. Jak se vyrábí sociologická znalost : příručka pro uživatele. Praha: Karolinum, 1993, 374 stran. ISBN 8070668229. 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
- not specified
- FIELD, Andy. Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics. 5th. Sage Publishing, 2017. ISBN 978-1-5264-4578-0. URL info
- BABBIE, Earl R. Adventures in social research : data analysis using IBM SPSS statistics. 8th ed. Los Angeles: Sage, 2013, xxiii, 456. ISBN 9781452205588. info
- MUIJS, Daniel. Doing quantitative research in education with SPSS. 2nd ed. Los Angeles: SAGE, 2011, xv, 247. ISBN 9781849203241. 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 : analýza a metaanalýza dat. 3., přeprac. vyd. Praha: Portál, 2009, 695 s. ISBN 9788073674823. info
- HENDL, Jan. Přehled statistických metod zpracování dat :analýza a metaanalýza dat. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 2004, 583 s. ISBN 8071788201. info
- GAVORA, Peter. Výzkumné metody v pedagogice : příručka pro studenty, učitele a výzkumné pracovníky. Brno: Paido, 1996, 130 s. ISBN 808593115X. info
- Teaching methods
- The course is taught as both lectures and seminars. Group work is common as well as essay-writing. Students are encouraged to ask questions about things they do not understand and comment on things they disagree with.
- Assessment methods
- Final (group) project and oral examination
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks. - Teacher's information
- https://elf.phil.muni.cz/elf3/course/view.php?id=361
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