Social Research and Evaluation II

1.00 credits · Undergraduate

This course introduces students to techniques and approaches associated with quantitative and qualitative research and evaluation methods of applied social sciences. Methodological assumptions, concepts and procedures are presented. Students develop their ability to review and critique existing literature and construct research and program evaluations. Topics include sampling procedures, experimental and quasi-experimental designs, questionnaires, interviews and focus groups, reliability and validity, basic data analysis methods, ethical issues, use of computers in social research, and the fundamentals of descriptive and inferential statistics.