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SOS 213 Social Studies Research Methods And Statistics

NCE2 levelSocial Sciences23 topics

SOS 213 covers 23 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. A. Research
  2. Concept and content of research:
  3. Types of research
  4. Choice of research topic
  5. Purposes/objectives of research
  6. Review of relevant literature
  7. Research methodology (Research Design):
  8. Stating research problem
  9. Choice of population
  10. Sample and sampling techniques
  11. Hypothesising
  12. Data collection techniques:
  13. Observation, interview, questionnaire etc.
  14. Organisation and presentation of data and statistical representation.
  15. B. - Appendices
  16. Bibliography and
  17. References
  18. Statistic: Meaning, Types and Uses
  19. Descriptive statistics:
  20. Measures of central tendency
  21. Measures of variability
  22. Inferential statistics:
  23. Parametric and non-parametric

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One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

A. Research

This topic introduces research as a systematic way of finding trustworthy answers to social questions. For the exam, you must master what research means, its basic characteristics, major purposes, common types, and the main stages of the research process because these ideas form the foundation for every other topic in research methods and statistics.

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