Learn practical and proven research techniques you can use in both your professional and personal life.
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Why Research Methods Matter
- 02: Characteristics of Good Research
- 03: Doing Research Ethically
- 04: From Topic of Interest to Research Question
- 05: What’s Already Known? The Literature Review
- 06: Generating Hypotheses and Theories
- 07: Selecting a Research Design
- 08: Measuring Concepts and Phenomena
- 09: Choosing Populations, Samples, and Cases
- 10: The Classic Experiment
- 11: The Value of Quasi Experiments
- 12: Designing and Conducting a Survey
- 13: Understanding Election Polls
- 14: Research by Case Study
- 15: Interpretivism and Field Research
- 16: Applied, Evaluative, and Action Research
- 17: Gathering and Preparing Data
- 18: Using Statistics to Interpret Data
- 19: Statistical Inferences from Data
- 20: Assessing Correlation and Causation
- 21: From Bivariate to Multivariate Analysis
- 22: Foundations of Qualitative Analysis
- 23: Qualitative Analysis Variations
- 24: The Art of Presenting Your Findings
Taught by
Amanda M. Rosen