RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
No specific scientific or biological knowledge other than those provided by any high school is required.
Identify the principal characteristics of a scientific study.
Use a scientific criteria to analyse a research.
Knowledge and knowledge systems – Operazionism, verificazionism - Scientific and disciplinary methodology - Deduction - Induction - Paradigms - Concepts – Proposition - Laws – Theories - Qualitative and quantitative approaches; Observation and experiments - The hypothesis – The independent and dependent variables - the data - Objectivity - Subjectivity - Errors - Measurement and stages – The stages of a research plan – How to evaluate e research - Randomised Controlled Trials - Population and Sampling – Probabilistic and unprobabilistic sampling – The descriptive and inference statistics - The observation, the interview, the questionnaire
Lobiondo G. – Wood, J Haber, Metodologia della ricerca infermieristica, Mc Graw Hill, Milano, 2004
Dautriaut H., Il questionario, Collana di sociologia, Franco Angeli Editore, Milano, 1999
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