Modiwl SXU-4404:
RESEARCH STRATEGY AND DESIGN
RESEARCH STRATEGY AND DESIGN 2022-23
SXU-4404
2022-23
School Of History, Law And Social Sciences
Module - Semester 1
10 credits
Module Organiser:
Dyfrig Jones
Overview
The course is organised around the following topics:
- Introduction: brief history of social science research
- Experience, evidence, research and knowledge
- Research questions and hypotheses
- Populations, measurement and survey sampling
- Questionnaire design; design of questions
- Principles of research design
- Uses of official data
- Structured interviews and standardization, Questionnaire testing
- Introduction to quantitative data analysis, frequencies, means, distributions
- Simple statistical models: testing research questions. The t test and the significance of significance.
- Presenting your findings and report writing
Assessment Strategy
-threshold -50-59% A satisfactory grasp of how to formulate research problems and questions, free of major errors in understanding the relationship between epistemology, theory generation and empirical research methods. -good -60-69% A good understanding of the connection between research problems and questions based on an accurate appreciation of the significance of alternative epistemological positions for research design and strategy. A sound knowledge of methods of simple quantitative analysis to explore data on a social issue. -excellent -70%+ A developed and critical understanding of the philosophy of social research which supports a detailed appreciation of the relationship between epistemology, theory generation and empirical research methods.
Assessment method
Essay
Assessment type
Summative
Description
Questionnaire Critique
Weighting
35%
Due date
16/12/2022
Assessment method
Essay
Assessment type
Summative
Description
Essay
Weighting
65%
Due date
07/11/2022