COURSE UNIT TITLE

: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS I: DATA COLLECTION & MAKING SENSE OF DATA

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FMM 5045 QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS I: DATA COLLECTION & MAKING SENSE OF DATA ELECTIVE 3 0 0 10

Offered By

Mathematics Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ZEKIYE ÖZGÜR

Offered to

Mathematics Teacher Education

Course Objective

: The aim of this course is to familiarize graduate students with qualitative research methods and help them understand how research questions that can be answered with qualitative research methods are developed, how to collect data using appropriate data collection methods and how to make sense of these data.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   1. Understand the theoretical foundations of qualitative research methods.
2   2. Write appropriate research questions for various types of qualitative research.
3   3. Understand and apply data collection methods suitable for various qualitative research types.
4   4. Understand and apply data analysis methods suitable for various types of qualitative research.
5   5. Understand how validity and reliability issues are handled in qualitative research.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Theoretical underpinnings of qualitative research
2 Framing and research problems in context studies
3 Participant observation method
4 Data collection in context studies
5 Ethnographic field notes
6 Focus group interview
7 Making sense of data in context studies
8 Framing and research problems in cognition studies
9 Data collection in cognition studies
10 Interviewing as a qualitative research
11 Clinical interview in psychological research and practice
12 Making sense of data in cognition studies
13 Validity and reliability issues
14 Design research: Theoretical overview and examples
15 Final paper presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Emerson, R. M., Fretz., R. I., and Shaw, L. L. (1995). Writing ethnographic fieldnotes. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Seidman, I. (2006). Interviewing as qualitative research: A guide for researchers in education and the social sciences, Third Edition. New York: Teachers College Press.

Saldaña, J. (2009). The coding manual for qualitative researchers. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Discussion, group work, lecturing, research project

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 PRS PRESENTATION
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.50 + PRS * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

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 14 6 84
Preparing assignments 14 3 42
Preparing presentations 3 8 24
Design Project 2 30 60
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 252

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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