FF:VIKBA31 Metodology for ILS - Course Information
VIKBA31 Methodology for Information and Library Studies
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2019
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. David Lacko, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- PhDr. Petr Škyřík, Ph.D.
Division of Information and Library Studies – Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Sabina Kubisová
Supplier department: Division of Information and Library Studies – Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Fri 8:00–9:40 C11
- 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
- Information and Library Studies (programme FF, B-IS) (4)
- Course objectives
- At the end of the course the student will carry out quantitative research by questionnaire. As part of this activity a student compare the benefits and limits of quantitative research against the qualitative one and compare different quantitative research methods; propose a methodology questionnaire; build a research tool in the form of a questionnaire; compute basic statistical values from the data set; interpret the results of the research and write a research report.
- Syllabus
- Repetition of research basics, comparison of qualitative and quantitative research.
- Logic of quantitative research, validity and reliability, the research goal and research questions. Research questions, hypotheses, variables and their operationalization.
- Creating a questionnaire.
- Population, research sample and data collection.
- Coding of uncategorized data, cleaning data file.
- Frequency domain analysis, classification of the 1st degree, graphs.
- Central values, standard deviations, confidence intervals.
- Creation of new variables: recoding, counting, sorting values.
- Contingency tables.
- Research report.
- Other methods of quantitative research.
- Literature
- required literature
- HENDL, Jan. Přehled statistických metod : analýza a metaanalýza dat. Páté, rozšířené vydán. Praha: Portál, 2015, 734 stran. ISBN 9788026209812. info
- HENDL, Jan. Kvalitativní výzkum : základní teorie, metody a aplikace. Čtvrté, přepracované a r. Praha: Portál, 2016, 437 stran. ISBN 9788026209829. info
- PICKARD, Alison Jane. Research methods in information. Edited by Susan Childs - Elizabeth Lomas - Julie McLeod - Andrew K. Shenton. Second edition. London: Facet publishing, 2013, xxii, 361. ISBN 9781856048132. info
- recommended literature
- REICHEL, Jiří. Kapitoly metodologie sociálních výzkumů. Praha: Grada, 2009, 192 pp. ISBN 978-80-247-3006-6. info
- MAREŠ, Petr, Ladislav RABUŠIC and Petr SOUKUP. Analýza sociálněvědních dat (nejen) v SPSS (Data analysis in social sciences (using SPSS)). První. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2015, 508 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-6362-4. info
- DISMAN, Miroslav. Jak se vyrábí sociologická znalost : příručka pro uživatele. 4. nezměněné vydání. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2011, 372 stran. ISBN 9788024619668. URL info
- URBÁNEK, Tomáš, Denisa DENGLEROVÁ and Jan ŠIRŮČEK. Psychometrika: Měření v psychologii (Psychometrics: Measurement in Psychology). Praha: Portál, 2011, 320 pp. ISBN 978-80-7367-836-4. info
- ŠVAŘÍČEK, Roman and Klára ŠEĎOVÁ. Kvalitativní výzkum v pedagogických vědách. Vydání druhé. Praha: Portál, 2014, 377 stran. ISBN 9788026206446. info
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, cooperative learning (workshops), practical excercises
- Assessment methods
- Individual tasks - it is necessary to accompish all 10 tasks, there is a point penalty for the late submission. Final written exam - 60% of the best result is needed to pass the exam.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2019, recent)
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