FF:VIKBA21 Research Metodology 2 - Course Information
VIKBA21 Research Metodology and Statistics 2
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2009
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- PhDr. Ladislava Zbiejczuk Suchá, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Ing. Zdeněk Kadlec, Dr.
Division of Information and Library Studies – Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Iva Dušová - Prerequisites
- SOUHLAS
The graduation of VIKBA12 is necessary. - 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) (2)
- Course objectives
- The aim of the course is to approach basics of statistical analyzing data acquired from a quantitative survey. Students will be introduced especially to work with statistical sets and variables: creating a set, data navigation and data cleaning, set operations, data translation, creating new variables, case selection and to basic data analysis methods
- Syllabus
- (1) decomposition of categorical and continuous data and characteristics of this decomposition - univariational analysis;
- (2) comparison of data allocation and average values of these allocations: t-test, variants analysis;
- (3) basics of inferential statistics and testing of statistical hypothesis;
- (4) finding relations between variables and evaluating strength of these relations – bivariational analysis using contingency tables, correlative analysis;
- (5) finding linear relations between continuous variables: linear regression and scatterplot;
- (6) data reduction using factor analysis as an attempt to identify factors explaining higher correlation between particular variables (basics of multivariational analysis)
- Literature
- Úvod do metodologie psychologického výzkumu :jak zkoumat lidskou duši. Edited by Ján Ferjenčík - Petr Bakalář. 1. vyd. Praha: Portál, 2000, 255 s. ISBN 80-7178-367-6. info
- HENDL, Jan. Úvod do kvalitativního výzkumu. 1. vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 1997, 243 s. ISBN 8071845493. info
- KERLINGER, Fred N. Základy výzkumu chování : pedagogický a psychologický výzkum. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1972, 705 s. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures, writing research proposal
- Assessment methods
- Educational methods:
seminars, activity in seminars, attendance
Requests to undergo:
written test - Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
Information on course enrolment limitations: Predmet pouze pro studenty, kteří jdou k bakalářské zkoušce v roce 2009!
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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