NB The course material is in English. Instruction is in Dutch. For the English version of this course please go to Conducting and Evaluation Emperical Research.
Admission requirements
Knowledge of statistics, research methods and SPSS at the level of the Leiden Bachelor programme.
Description
The course aims to get students acquainted with the practice of empirical research on the level required for their Master’s thesis. Scientific papers are examined in detail, both regarding their organisation and the research methods applied. Attention will be paid to both the methodological design and the statistical analysis of results. The course offers tools for assessing the quality of published research results as well as for producing one’s own (basic) research report.
Course objectives
Achievement levels: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17.
Timetable
Mode of instruction
Seven lectures
Six tutorial sessions in which empirical research papers are examined (attendance obligatory)
Seven computer lab sessions (attendance obligatory)
Assessment method
Grades are mainly based on a final research paper, but the course also contains other obligatory assignments.
Blackboard
During this course Blackboard will be used. The Blackboard site will contain announcements, course documents, information on tutorials and computer labs, lecture notes and discussion boards. The site is completely in English and shared with the Dutch version of the course (Practice of Empirical Research).
Reading list
A detailed Student Manual will be available in August. Additional materials will be available on the Blackboard site of the course.
Registration
Please note that separate uSis registration is mandatory for lectures, seminars, exams and re-exams. Student who do not register, cannot attend courses or take exams.
Courses
Registration for the lectures of the course is possible as of 100 calendar days through 10 calendar days before the first lecture at the latest;
Registration for the seminars of the course is possible as of 100 calendar days through 10 calendar days before the first seminar at the latest.
Exams
Student must register for each exam through uSis. This is only possible until 10 calendar days before the exam. More information on exam registration
Contact information
First check the Student Manual, then the Blackboard module and only after failure to find what you want to know, contact the staff of the course;
For enrollment and organizational issues please mail: Dr. M. Malda
For specific issues with respect to tutorials, computer labs, end paper, and absence please contact your tutor;
Please pose general questions regarding the end paper on the general Blackboard forum.
Please pose specific questions related to the subject of your tutorial group on the Group forum.