Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Humanities |
Grao en Información e Documentación |
Subjects |
Documentation Techniques Applied to Scientific Research |
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Identifying Data | 2018/19 | |||||||||||||
Subject | Documentation Techniques Applied to Scientific Research | Code | 710G02041 | |||||||||||
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Fourth | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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Topic | Sub-topic |
1. Introduction to science and research | - Knowledge. Characteristics and sources. - Methods to acquire knowledge. - Sciencie. Notion, definition. - Characteristics of scientific knowledge. - Origins and evolution of science. - What is scientific research? - Research-theory - Importancie of research for disciplines and professions. |
2. The Scientific method | - Notions - What is methodology? - Research paradigms. - The research process. - Sistematization of methods. - Empiric-analytic method. - Experimental method. - Hermeneutic method. - Dialectic method. - Fenomenologic method. - Historic method. - Sistemic method. - Sintetic method. - Logic method. |
3. Quantitative research techniques | - Tipos de técnicas de investigación cuantitativa de acuerdo con su finalidad, carácter, naturaleza y marco temporal. - Unidades de análisis y observación. - Población: definición y tipos. - La muestra y el muestreo. Definición, requisitos y procedimientos. - Variables: definition and types. - Informants selection. - Sampling methods. - Surveys - Modalities and characteristics. - Surveys:sampling. - Surveys: field work. - Surveys: processing the data. - Experimental design. - Bibliometrics and statistics. - Scientiometrics and infometrics. |
4. Qualitative research techniques | - Types l. - Direct observation. - Focal groups. - Documentsand content analysis. - Grounded or anchored theory. - Structured interview. - Life story. - Other: etnography, etnology, etnomethodology, biography, hermeneutic-interpretative paradigm, etc. |
5. Research phases. Conceptual phase: research design. | - The research question. - The research problem. - Databases - Registering andorganizing information. - The framework (Procite). - The research goals. - Hypothesis. |
6. Research phases. Methodological phase. | -Definition and aim of the research design. -Elements of the research design. -Classification of levels of research. -Concepts. -Selection de una technique. |
7. Research phases. Empirical and analytical phases: analysis of the data. | - Methods and techniques to analyse data. - Presentation and interpretation of results. - Conclusions and implications in research. - Critical Analysis of research works. |
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