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MSIT 6101
Research Methodologies
3
Lecture 3
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1/1
Compulsory
The aim of this module is to teach the methodologies and the skills for
conducting research in Information Technology, and to provide advanced
education and training in quantitative and qualitative research methods for
postgraduate students. The general goals of this course are:
a) Philosophy and Research Design: Students will know the underlying
research philosophies and possible research planning and designs
issue in Information Technology.
b) Research Methods: Students will understand how a variety of
research methods, including action research, case study research,
correlation research, descriptive research, comparative research,
experimental research, evaluation, ethnographic research and
grounded theory, can be used in solving societal problems
c) Critical Thinking Skills: Students will have to analyze and critically
evaluate published examples of research in Computing.
d) Communication Skills: Students will write and present a research
proposal and they will develop an appreciation of the challenges of
writing up research work for a thesis, conference paper and journal
article
Course Contents
Chapter 1:
What is a research?
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1.3 Scientific research
1.4 Objective of research
1.5 Motivations for research
1.6 Significance of research
1.7 Research requirements
1.8 Characteristics of research
1.9 Types of research
1.10
Research Approach
1.11
1.12
1.13
1.14
1.15
1.16
Chapter 2:
Research Problem
Selecting a topic
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2.1.2
2.1.3
2.1.4
2.1.5
Design of Research
2.1.6
2.1.7
Chapter 3:
2.3.1
Library
2.3.2
The Internet
2.3.3
2.3.4
Measurement
2.3.5
2.3.6
Language skill
Literature Review
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3.4 The literature review process
3.5 Key purposes of Literature Review
3.6 Skills for effective reading
3.7 Questions to raise during literature review
3.8 The key to a critical literature review
3.9 Categories of literature sources
3.10
3.10.1 Journals
3.10.2 Books
3.10.3 Newspaper
3.10.4 Reports
3.10.5 Conference proceedings
3.10.6 Theses
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
3.15
3.16
Summary
3.17
Students are expected to produce a valid literature review document (chapter two)
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of the research topic
Chapter 4:
Research Ethics
1. Introduction
2. Usage
Chapter 6:
Student will select topic which may be one that he/she is interested to work
in the future. The instructor may approve the topic for its relevancy. More
importance is given to the writing skill of the student than the topic itself in
this assignment. Student should produce 5-10 pages of report on the
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selected topic.
2. Critical assessment of article (15%)
Student will select article which may be one that he/she is interested to
work in the future. The instructor should approve the article (assess whether
it is published or not; recent or not, journal or conference, workshop article)
Students will assess the article and produce 1 or 2 pages of report focusing
on the analysis of the article from the research perspective (type, methods
and techniques, and evaluation reports)
Student should justify what the problem is? What its application is?
What the research question is? What the hypothesis is?
Student should define the title of the research properly from their
hypothesis
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subsection
Literature
General textbooks are not suitable for a module of this kind. The following
are some of the reference that can be used for the purpose.
1. Graziano Antony M, Raulin Michael L., (2004), Research Methods:
A process of inquiry, 5th ed., Pearson Education Group PLC.
2. Leedy Paul D., Ormrod Jeanne E., Practical Research: Planning and
Design, 7thed.
3. Trochim William M.K. (2003), Research Methods, 2nd ed., Atomic
Dog Publishing, USA
4. Kothari C.R. (2004), Research methodology (Methods and
Techniques), 2nd ed., New Age International Publisher.
5. The Research Methodology: http://www.experimentresources.com/research-methodology.html