COURSE UNIT TITLE

: DATA COLLECTING AND ANALYSIS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
AFY 6081 DATA COLLECTING AND ANALYSIS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Disaster Administration

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ŞENAY ÜÇDOĞRUK BIRECIKLI

Offered to

Disaster Administration

Course Objective

This course aims to develop students understanding of analytical methods and procedures that can be used for analyzing problems and decision makings.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Use decision tools to make data-driven evaluation and policy choices;
2   Employ statistical methods appropriately
3   Distinguish between different approaches to decision making using quantitative research;
4   Identify the decision tools appropriate for different situations in research;
5   Appreciate public administration, political science, sociological and economic etc. contexts of disaster administration research;

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Defining a researchable topic, preparing a research plan and defining measurement of variables.
2 Sampling
3 Questionnaire surveys
4 Compilation and presentation of data
5 Central tendency and measures of dispersion
6 Normal Distribution and sampling distributions
7 Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing
8 Comparing two means: t-test
9 Comparing more than two means: one-way analysis of variance
10 Comparing groups means: factorial analysis of variance
11 Chi-Square analysis
12 Non-parametric tests: comparing two independent conditions, comparing two releated conditions,
13 Non-parametric tests:Differences between several independent groups, Differences between several releated groups
14 Presentation of Homeworks

Recomended or Required Reading

Field, Andy, Discovering Statistics Using SPSS,SAGE,2009.
Baker, Therese L., Doing Social Research,McGraw-Hill International Editions, 1994.
Ticehurts, G.W. - A.J.Veal, Business Research Methods, Longman, 2000.
Nakip, Mahir, Pazarlama Araştırmaları, Seçkin yayınevi,2003.
Akgül, Aziz Osman Çevik, Istatistiksel Analiz Teknikleri, 2003.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The course will be lectured practically.
Microsoft EXCEL ve SPSS istatistik paket programı kullanılarak ders işlenecektir. The corse will be held by Microsoft EXCEL ve SPSS statistics programs.
Microsoft EXCEL ve SPSS will be used in the projects.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.40


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

All the criteriars are evaluated based on midterm, final and project results.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be anounced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 36 1 36
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Final 1 10 10
Midterm 1 4 4
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 132

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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