ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Antipositivism, Instrumental Variable, Random Assignment
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Research design: study designs, surveys, ethics, questionnaire design, survey interviewing. Quantitative research methods: collecting quantitative data, sampling and confidence intervals, hypothesis testing continuous data and categorical data, regression methods quantifying relationships between variables. Qualitative research methods: collecting qualitative data: key methods, analysing qualitative data. Written assignment (worth 10%: material covered in weeks 1 & 2, a short-written assignment (500 words, handed out in week 1 and submitted in week 4 - 16:00 thursday 24th october. Quantitative assignment (worth 30%: material covered in weeks 3-8, requires you to use spss, handed out in week 5 and submitted in week 9 - 16:00 thursday 28th november. 2-hour examination (worth 60%: will cover all of the course but with an emphasis on the material not covered by the two assignments https://www. amazon. co. uk/social-research-methods-alan- Methods" can be seen as unexciting but are the foundation of all research and, therefore, constitute large part of our specific disciplinary knowledge.
