Research Methodology and Techniques

There is no recommended base knowledge.

Expository classes with computer support. The academic period is structured in two components: classes dedicated to the presentation of theoretical concepts and practical examples; and practical skills development classes. Classes will be interspersed in a sequence that optimizes the acquisition of skills.

Plan and execute scientific research work, namely by providing the tools and bases necessary for the successful execution of research and investigation work, report production and project preparation. It is also intended to raise awareness of the issue of data protection, with an analysis of the RGPD and related legislation, as well as questions of ethics and plagiarism.

The student should be able to:

• Knowing and knowing how to articulate about the GDPR

• Be sensitive to ethics and plagiarism issues

• Know techniques for developing a scientific research work

• Search for scientific and technical articles within the scope of the course

• Analyze and discuss scientific and technical articles within the scope of the course

• Plan and develop the dissemination of scientific work

1. Essential rules for writing and/or presenting scientific papers

2. Computer tools for scientific work

3. Research methodologies and techniques

3.1. Research, reflective journals/personal reports

3.2. Bibliographic research methodologies

3.3. Theme selection process, state-of-the-art research, definition of the research question.

3.4. Critical review of the literature.

4. Primary data and secondary data. Open data. Government data. Personal data.

5. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

6. Ethics in research and data ethics

7. Plagiarism. chatGPT
8. Open seminars/classes with the collaboration of professors, former master’s students and other guests, seeking to bring developments in research work and aspects of the practical application of the subjects taught in the course.

Assessment throughout the quarter:
The assessment will have two components:
Assessment A – written work, carried out in groups, to be submitted in the nonio, with oral defense made by all group members.
After the written work has been classified, the grade assigned to each student for the work will be made according to the rule: 80% × (grade of the written work) + 20% × (grade of the student's oral defense)
Assessment B - individual written test carried out in class, lasting a maximum of 90 minutes.
The final grade will be defined by the following formula:
Final grade = 0.8 × (grade A) + 0.2 × (grade B)
The dates for delivery and defense of the work and the test are defined on the first day of class.

Assessment by final exam or during the appeal period:
- Delivery and oral defense of individual written work, defined in accordance with assessment A.
and
- Resolution of the test (in the form of assessment B) on the date scheduled for the exam.

Submission of work to the nonio must occur by 8pm on the day scheduled for the exam, with the date of the oral presentation set within a maximum period of 5 days.
The final grade per exam will be 0.8 × (paper grade) + 0.2 × (test grade).

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