Syllabus/achievement requirements

Advanced Qualitative Research Methods

Bryman, A. 2004): Social Research methods. 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Ch. 22 and 27 (56 pp).

Christians, Clifford (2001): "Ethics and Politics in Qualitative Research." In: Denzin, Norman K. and Yvonna S. Lincoln (eds.): Handbook of Qualitative Research. Thousands Oaks, Calif.: Sage. Pp. 133-155 (21 pp).

Patai, Daphne (1991). "U.S. Academics and Third World Women: Is Ethical Research Possible?" In: Gluck, Sherna Berger and Daphne Patai (eds.): Women's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History. New York: Routledge. Pp. 137-153 (15 pp).

Patton, Michael Quinn (2002): Qualitative Research & Evaluation Methods. Chapters 8 (Qualitative analysis and interpretation) and 9 (Enhancing the quality and credibility of qualitative analysis). Pp. 429-536 (pp. 106 pp).

Robinson-Pant, Anna (2002): "What can PRA offer to educational researchers? In: Brock-Utne, Birgit and Ragnhild Tungesvik (eds.): Doing Educational Research in Developing Countries. Report no. 7, Oslo: Institute for Educational Research. pp. 137-153 (15 pp).

Vulliamy, Graham and David Stephens (1990): Doing Educational Research in Developing Countries. Chapter 6 (Data Collection and Analysis in Malaysia and Sri Lanka). Pp. 116-142 (25 pp).

Ozga, Jenny (2000): Policy Research in Educational Settings. Series: Doing Qualitative Research in Educational Settings. Open University Press, Buckingham-Philadelphia. Ch 1-4 (pp 67).

Advanced Quantitative Research Methods

Aspelmeier, J. E. & Pierce, T. W. (2010): SPSS: A user friendly approach. Worth Publishers, Madison: New York. Chapters 2 – 5 (57pp).

Bryman, A. (2008): Social research methods. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapters 12, 14 – 15 (69 pp).

Gall, M. D., J. P. Gall & W.R. Borg (2007): Educational research: An introduction. 8th ed. Pearson Education, Inc., Boston: MA. Chapters 3 & 5 (64pp).

Hinkle, D.J., W. Wiersma & S.G. Jurs (2003): Applied Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences. 5th ed. Houghton Mifflin, Princeton. Chapter 3 (34pp).

Punch, K. F. (2005): Introduction to social research: Quantitative and qualitative approaches. 2nd ed. Sage Publications, London. Chapter 7 (24 pp).

Tredoux, Coling and Mario Smith (1999): "Jumping to conclusions: An overview of inferential statistical methods." In: Blanche, Martin Terre and Kevin Durrheim (eds.): Research in Practice: Applied Methods for Social sciences. Cape Town University Press, Cape Town. Chapter 19 (24pp).

Tredoux, Coling and Tyronne Pretorius (1999): "Reducing and understanding complexity: Multivariate data analysis." In: Blanceh, Martin Terre and Kevin Durrheim (eds.): Research in Practice: Applied Methods for the Social Sciences. Cape Town University Press, Cape Town. Chapter 19 (24 pp).

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