TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Compulsory Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Master's Degree With Thesis
YEAR OF STUDY	1
SEMESTER	First Term (Fall)
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	10
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	-
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) Analyze research process (problem specification, data collection, data analysis and evaluating results), evaluate certain scientific research methods (experimental method, description method) and provide to find required research question to make a research, establish hypothesis, conceptualize, operationalize, measurement, data collection, data analysis, data evaluation/expo and report writing. Via PASW software student will learn how the experimental test are done via parametric and non-parametric statistical tests.
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	None
COURSE DEFINITION	Examininig the process of researching (problem identification, data collection, data analysis and interpretation of results), reviewing major scientific research methods (experimental method, descriptive method, historical method) and need to be able to research the literature on a particular topic, and finding, data collection, data evaluation and report writing techniques is the scope of the course.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Basic Concepts about Science and Research 2nd Week Defining Research Problem and Establishing Experiment 3rd Week Causality 4th Week Conceptualizing and Operationalizing 5th Week Measurement 6th Week Experimental Method and Description Method 7th Week Index Analysis, Field Research 8th Week Midterm 9th Week Sample Selection Logic 10th Week Illative Statistics: Parametric Tests I 11th Week Illative Statistics: Parametric Tests II 12th Week Non-Parametric Tests 13th Week Research Design and Statistics Test Selection 14th Week Research Preparance, Ethic Violacionts and Piracy
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Acemoglu, D. ve Robinson, J.A. (2006). Economic origins of dictatorship and democracy. Cambridge, NY: Cambridge University Press. Altunışık, R., Coşkun, R., Bayraktaroğlu, S. ve Yıldırım, E. (2005). Sosyal bilimlerde araştırma yöntemleri: SPSS uygulamalı. 4. bs. Sakarya. Anderson, C.A. (2004). An update on the effects of playing violent video games. Journal of Adolescence, 27, 113-122. Babbie, E. (2001). The practice of social research. 9th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. Babbie, E. (2006). The practice of social research. 11th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. Berelson, B. (1952). Content analysis in communications research. Glencoe, IL: The Free Press. Bilgin, N. (2006). Sosyal bilimlerde içerik analizi: Teknikler ve örnek çalışmalar. Ankara: Siyasal Kitabevi. Creswell, J.W. (2009). Research design: HAFTAuantitative, HAFTAualitative, and mixed methods approaches. 3rd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Field, A. (2005). Discovering statistics using SPSS. 2nd ed. London: Sage.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Discussion,Questions/Answers,Case Study,Project,Report Preparation
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Mid-term 1 30 Project 2 20 Attendance 1 10 Total(%) 60 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 60 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 40 Total(%) 100
ECTS WORKLOAD	Activities Number Hours Workload Midterm exam 1 1 1 Preparation for Quiz Individual or group work 14 10 140 Preparation for Final exam 14 3 42 Course hours 13 3 39 Preparation for Midterm exam 8 3 24 Laboratory (including preparation) Final exam 1 1 1 Homework 1 40 40 Total Workload 287 Total Workload / 30 9,56 ECTS Credits of the Course 10
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	Turkish
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No