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CEK3006 | SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH METHODS | 3+0+0 | ECTS:4 | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | Level of Course | First Cycle | Status | Compulsory | Department | DEPARTMENT of LABOR ECONOMICS and INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | Mode of Delivery | Face to face, Lab work | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | Lecturer | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Hasan Çebi BAL | Co-Lecturer | None | Language of instruction | Turkish | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | The aim of the course: | The aims of this course is to inform scientific research methods and is to teach prepare and evaluation of scientific researches. |
Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | LO - 1 : | define basic concepts of scientific researches | 1,2,3,4,5 | | LO - 2 : | lain stages of the research | 1,2,3,4,5 | | LO - 3 : | ch scientific research | 1,2,3,4,5 | | LO - 4 : | ate stages of scientific methods | 1,3,4,5 | | LO - 5 : | design a scientific research | 1,2,3,4,5 | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | |
Classification of sciences and social sciences, scientific thought methods, research and data set techniques, process of scientific research, research project, source compilation from libraries, text figure coverage in literature, literature citing and typing footnotes, editing tables and figures, efficiency in scientific editing, computer facilities in research. |
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Course Syllabus | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | Week 1 | The types of knowledge;The relation between science and other types of knowledge | | Week 2 | Pozitivism and Its Critique;Popper and falsificationism | | Week 3 | Paradigm, Science and Society | | Week 4 | Emergence and Development of Social Sciences; the pozitivist and post-pozitivist approaches in social sciences | | Week 5 | Theory and Hypotesis, Induction and Deduction | | Week 6 | How to prepare a research proposal? | | Week 7 | Determining of the research limitations;searching for resources | | Week 8 | Description of sampling, its types and techniques;reliability and validity in a research;scales | | Week 9 | Mid-term exam | | Week 10 | A general look at qualitative and quantitative data collection;survey techniques;the advantages and disadvantages of survey techniques; the evaluation of surveys and their interpretation. | | Week 11 | Interview technique,Observation | | Week 12 | Designing and Conducting Case Study | | Week 13 | Content Analysis | | Week 14 | Discourse Analysis | | Week 15 | Evaluation of course projects | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | |
1 | Altunışık R. ve diğerleri, (2010), Sosyal Bilimlerde Araştırma Yöntemleri SPSS Uygulamalı, Sakarya Yayıncılık, 6. Baskı, Sakarya. | | 2 | Dinler, Z., (2012), Bilimsel Araştırma ve e-Kaynaklar, Ekin Basım Yayın Dağıtım, 7. Baskı, Bursa. | | |
1 | Seyidoğlu, H., (2009), Bilimsel Araştırma ve Yazma El Kitabı, Güzem Can Yayınları, 10. Baskı, İstanbul. | | 2 | Karpuz, B., (2009), Araştırma Yöntem ve Stratejileri, Hiperlink Yayınları, 1. Baskı, İstanbul. | | 3 | Arıkan R., (2011), Araştırma Yöntem ve Teknikleri, Nobel Yayınları, 1. Baskı, Ankara. | | 4 | Arlı M., Nazik H., (2010), Bilimsel Araştırmaya Giriş, Gazi Kitabevi, 4. Baskı, Ankara. | | 5 | Karasar, N., (2012), Bilimsel Araştırma Yöntemi, Nobel Yayınları, 23. Baskı, Ankara. | | |
Method of Assessment | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | Mid-term exam | 9 | | | 50 | End-of-term exam | 16 | | | 50 | |
Student Work Load and its Distribution | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | | | |
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