Academic Catalog

UPL604 ETHICS IN RESEARCH AND QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS

Course Code: 8110604
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Urban Policy Planning And Local Governments
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
Course Coordinator: Assist.Prof.Dr ALÝ CENAP YOLOÐLU
Offered Semester: Fall or Spring Semesters.

Course Content

This course ensures that students gain knowledge, awareness and sensitivity on basis ethical principals in social research and demonstrates the ways in which research and statistical ethics are related. The course also extends student knowledge of the statistics commonly used in social sciences. Specifically, the course covers: ethics, principal of research ethics, ethics in statistics, basic statistical concepts, descriptive statistics and organization of quantitative data, theoretical distributions, sampling distributions, basic research designs, basic sampling methods, hypothesis tests, measures of association, linear regression analysis.