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BADM 486-02, Senior Seminar-Research Section, Spring 2010
Birnbaum, Dee
Birnbaum, Dee
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Students will learn to:
1. Search on-line data bases for scholarly articles;
2. Identify a body of literature in the social/behavioral sciences that is applicable to the solution of practical business problems and write a critical review of this literature;
3. Identify and delineate a feasible research project from the body of literature in #2;
4. Write a testable hypothesis that follows from #3;
5. Write a comprehensive research proposal that includes methods for collecting and analyzing data using the project outlined in #3;
6. Distinguish among different types of research, e.g. qualitative versus quantitative, applied versus basic, macro-level versus micro-level;
7. Identify and distinguish among the different paradigms that form the basic assumptions underlying different research philosophies;
8. Distinguish between reliability and validity;
9. Distinguish among the different types of reliability and validity;
10. Identify strengths and weaknesses of different research designs and methods;
11. Operationalize (concretize) abstract concepts.
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This syllabus was submitted to the Rhodes College Office of Academic Affairs by the course instructor.