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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Humanities |
| Grao en Xestión Dixital de Información e Documentación |
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| Research Methodology in Information and Documentation |
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| Identifying Data | 2022/23 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Research Methodology in Information and Documentation | Code | 710G04010 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Second | Obligatory | 3 | ||||||||||
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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 Scientific techniques | -Tipos de técnicas cuantitativas -Unidades de análise e observación -Población: definición e tipos -A mostra e o muestreo -Variables -Seleción de informantes e recollida de datos. -Métodos de recollida de datos. |
| 4. Qualitative Scientific techniques | -A entrevista -A observación directa -O grupo focal -A observación documental -A teoría anclada ou fundamentada -Outras técnicas |
| 5. Research steps | -Fase conceptual: o diseño da investigación -Fase metodolóxica: a selección do método e a técnica -Fase empírico-analítica -Fase de presentación dos resultados |
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