Advanced Methods of Data Analysis

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

The curricular unit will focus teaching-learning active methods without prejudice of moments and times of deepening specific content presentation by the teachers. The curricular unit will search the application of techniques to the concrete work of doctoral students, particularly in the context of the PhD Project.

It Will be established in the first class a schedule of activities, syllabus and intermediate products to be carried out by students.

It Will be established also a timetable for tutorial activities, which may take various forms.

Learning Outcomes

- To Understand and be able to use qualitative, quantitative and mixed methodologies of data analysis

- To promote the capability to understand the relationship between different epistemological views of social research and strategies in data processing;

- To Develop analytical and operational skills in data analysis.

At the end of the course the doctoral students should understand the appropriateness of different methods to the subject matter and their application.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. The qualitative analysis (DQA)

a. Different epistemological assumptions and sensitivities

b. Grounded theory, coding theory and qualitative data analysis

c. thematic coding

d. Other methods of AQD

e. AQD computer-assisted (MaxQDA and other software análsie data)

2. The quantitative data analysis: statistical methods and data analysis assisted by computer (SPSS)

3. Data analysis in research design based on mixed methods

Head Lecturer(s)

Clara Maria Rodrigues Cruz Silva Santos

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Resolution Problems: 30.0%
Laboratory work or Field work: 70.0%

Bibliography

BRYMAN, A. (2008), Social Research Methods, Nova Iorque, Oxford University Press.

CHARMAZ, K. (2006), Constructing Grounded Theory: A Practical Guide Through Qualitative Analysis, Londres, Sage.

FLICK, U. (2005). Métodos Qualitativos na Investigação Científica, Lisboa, Monitor.

GLASER, B, e A Strauss (2008), The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Analysis, Pine Forge Press.

HESS-BIBER, S. (2010), Mixed Methods Research: Merging Theory with Practice, Nova Iorque, The Guilford Press.

NEUMAN W. L.(2009). Social Research Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches (7th Ed).Hardcover

SANTOS, C., ALMEIDA, H. & ALBUQUERQUE, C. (2013). A dimensão político-estratégica da investigação qualitativa em SS. In A. Arcoverde (org). Metodologias qualitativas de pesquisa em serviço social. Recife: UFPE.

RUBIN,A & BABBIE, E. (2010). Essential Research Methods for Social Work. Brooks/Cole.