Required Reading Material
Course subject(s)
1. Research Foundation
2. Research Design
3. Data Analysis
4. Validation
The required reading material for this course is:
Designing a Research Project
Piet Verschuren & Hans Doorewaard
Eleven International Publishing
ISBN: 978-90-5931-572-3
The introduction is required reading
Chapter 1 is required reading
Chapter 2 is required reading
Chapter 3 is required reading
Chapter 4
– Sections 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3 are required reading
– Sections 4.4 and 4.5 are optional
Chapter 5
– The step by step approach on pages 147 to 151 is required reading
– The rest of the chapter is optional
Chapter 6
– Sections 6.1, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6 and 6.7 are required reading
– Sections 6.2 and 6.3 are optional
Chapter 7 is required reading
Chapter 8
– Sections 8.1, 8.2 and 8.4 are required reading
– Section 8.3 is optional
Recommended Reading Material
Please find below our list of books which we think may help you during this course and your subsequent thesis work. They are grouped along the themes: “General Research Books”, “Research Methodology”, “Statistics and SPSS/PASW18” and “Writing & Presenting of Research Results”.
General Research Books
How to design and Report Experiments
Andy Field and Graham Hole
Sage Publishing
ISBN: 9780761973836
Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches
John W. Creswell
Sage Publishing
ISBN: 9781452226101
Applied business research: quantative & qualitative methods
Cavana & Delahaye & Sekaran
Wiley
ISBN: 978-0471341260
Research Methodology
Qualitative Data analysis
Miles and Hubermann
Sage Publishing
ISBN: 9781452257877
Design and Analysis of Experiments
Montgomery
Wiley
ISBN: 978-1-118-09793-9
Getting it Right: R&D methods for Science and engineers
Peter Bock
Academic Press
ISBN: 978-0121088521
The Survey Kit
Arlene Fink
ISBN: 978-0761925101
Statistics and SPSS/PASW18
SPSS Survival Manual
Julie Pallant
Open University Press
ISBN: 9780335242399
Discovering Statistics using SPSS
Andy Filed
Sage Publishing
ISBN: 978-1847879073
Writing & Presenting of Research Results
How to write and Publish a Scientific Paper
Robert A. Day and Barbara Gastel
Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521671675
Technical Communication
Anderson, Thompson
ISBN: 978-1285079202
Rapportage techniek
Elling et. al.
WoltersNoordhof
ISBN: 9789001291389
Presentation Techniques
van der Laaken & van der Laaken
Coutinho
ISBN: 978-9046900475
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