RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND STATISTICS IN EDUCATION SCIENCES

Course Information
TitleΜΕΘΟΔΟΛΟΓΙΑ ΕΡΕΥΝΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΣΤΑΤΙΣΤΙΚΗ ΣΤΙΣ ΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΕΣ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΠΑΙΔΕΥΣΗΣ / RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND STATISTICS IN EDUCATION SCIENCES
CodeΥ03
FacultyEducation
SchoolEarly Childhood Education
Cycle / Level2nd / Postgraduate
Teaching PeriodWinter/Spring
CoordinatorArgyrios Kyridis
CommonNo
StatusActive
Course ID600022287

Programme of Study: MASTER Specializing in Education Sciences: Research and Praxis in Changing Learning Environments

Registered students: 47
OrientationAttendance TypeSemesterYearECTS
KORMOSCompulsory Course117.5

Class Information
Academic Year2024 – 2025
Class PeriodWinter
Faculty Instructors
Instructors from Other Categories
Weekly Hours3
Total Hours39
Class ID
600256816
Course Type 2021
Specific Foundation
Course Type 2016-2020
  • Background
Course Type 2011-2015
Specific Foundation / Core
Mode of Delivery
  • Face to face
Digital Course Content
Language of Instruction
  • Greek (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
Students who attend the course should be able to understand the nature and techniques of scientific research, especially that focusing on social sciences and education. They should be able to understand, to judge and utilizing published research, to identify their key characteristics and being able to seize for subsequent research efforts. Students should be able to recognize research methods and research tools, and to plan research efforts and tools. They should know and use basic principles and techniques of quantitative and qualitative research methods and techniques of statistics
General Competences
  • Apply knowledge in practice
  • Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
  • Adapt to new situations
  • Make decisions
  • Work autonomously
  • Work in teams
  • Work in an international context
  • Work in an interdisciplinary team
  • Generate new research ideas
  • Design and manage projects
  • Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
  • Respect natural environment
  • Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
  • Be critical and self-critical
  • Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
(a) Introduction to scientific research - Epistemological conditions of research, (b) Validity, reliability and research ethics, (c) the research project (design) (d) Research question - Research Affairs, (e) Documentation, Bibliography and looking for bibliography (f) Sampling and Variables, (g) Quantitative research - Using SPSS (Basic instructions) (h) The survey - questionnaire design and data analysis (i) Qualitative Research (Content analysis - Discourse analysis - Ethnography - Focus Groups - Case Study – Action Research - Grounded theory).
Keywords
Scientific Research, Qualitative research, Quantitative research, Data analysis, Research plan
Educational Material Types
  • Notes
  • Slide presentations
  • Multimedia
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
  • Use of ICT in Course Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Laboratory Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Communication with Students
  • Use of ICT in Student Assessment
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
Lectures391.6
Reading Assigment451.8
Tutorial60.2
Written assigments1004
Total1907.6
Student Assessment
Student Assessment methods
  • Written Assignment (Formative, Summative)
Bibliography
Additional bibliography for study
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Last Update
14-01-2024