Master Thesis Lab

Statistics & Methods Centre - Courses and Textbooks - 2011-2012

Each institute teaches in principle its courses and uses its own textbooks. Below is an overview of virtually all research methods and statistics courses offered by the institute, as well as the textbooks used. A general description of the major textbooks can be found on a special page.

 

Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology

First year
M&T 1: Onderzoeksvaardigheden 10 ects
M&T 1: Inleiding in de Statistiek en SPSS 5 ects

Second year
M&T 2: Onderzoeksvoorbereiding 5 ects
M&T 2: Analysetechnieken (in Dutch)  5 ects

Third year
Research methods and statistics course books
  • Field, A. (2009). Discovering statistics using SPSS (3rd edition). London: Sage.
  • Hammersley, M., & Atkinson, P. (2007). Ethnography: Principles in practice (3rd edition). New York: Routledge.
  • Rose, G. (2007). Visual methodologies: An introduction to the interpretation of visual materials (2nd edition). London: Sage.
  • Russell Bernard, H. (2012). Research methods in anthropology: Qualitative and quantitative.\ (5th edition). Lanham, MD: Altamira Press.

Education and Child Studies

First year
Onderzoekspracticum 1 (in Dutch) 8 ects
Cursus praktische data-analyse met SPSS (in Dutch) 2 ects

Second year
Onderzoekspracticum 2 (in Dutch) 7 ects
Methoden van kwalitatief onderzoek (in Dutch) 3 ects

Master Education and child studies
Practice of empirical research (PEO) (in Dutch; English see below) 5 ects

Research master Educational sciences
Conducting and evaluating empirical research (English version of PEO) 5 ects
Test theory and scale development (in English) 5 ects
Applied multivariate data analysis - Spring & Fall semester (in English)  5 ects
Applied multivariate data analysis - Spring semester (in English)  5 ects
Research methods and statistics course books
  • Bryman, A. (2012). Social research methods. (4th Edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press
  • Furr, R.M., & Bachrach, V.R. (2008). Psychometrics: An introduction. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Linting, M. (Compiler) (2011). Introduction to research methods in the social and behavioral sciences [Compiled book]. Harlow, UK: Pearson Custom Publishing.
  • Moore, D.S., McCabe, G.P., & Craig, B.A. (2011) Introduction to the practice of statistics (7th edition). New York: Freeman.
  • Vocht, A. de (2011). Basishandboek SPSS 19. Utrecht: Bijleveld Press.

Political Science

First year
Statistiek I: Beschrijven en presenteren (in Dutch) 5 ects
Statistiek II: Analyse en Onderzoek (in Dutch) 5 ects

Second year
Research methods in political science (in Dutch) 5 ects
Methods of data collection (in Dutch) 5 ects

Third year
Research master in Political science
Qualitative data collection and analysis - in English 5 ects
Quantitative data collection and analysis (in English) 5 ects
Advance methodology (in English) 5 ects
Research methods and statistics course books
  • George, A.L., & Bennett, A. (2005). Case studies and theory development. In George, A.L., & Bennett, A. (Eds.), Case studies and theory development in the social sciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Argyrous, G. (2011). Statistics for research: With a guide to SPSS. (3rd edition). London: Sage.
  • Babbie, E. (2003). The practice of social research. (10th edition). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
  • Field, A. (2009). Discovering statistics using SPSS (3rd edition). London: Sage.
  • Fink, A. (2013) How to conduct surveys: A step-by-step guide (5th edition). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Swanborn, P. (2010). Case study research: What, why and how? London: Sage.

Psychology

Premaster study
Preparatory statistics  5 ects

First year
Introduction to research methods and techniques (in Dutch)  5 ects
Inferential statistics (in Dutch)  5 ects
Experimental and correlational research (in Dutch)  5 ects

Second year
Multivariate data analysis (in Dutch)  5 ects
Psychometrics (in Dutch)  5 ects
Field research in psychology (in Dutch)  5 ects

Master and Research master in Psychology
Applied data analysis (in English)  5 ects
Applied multivariate analysis (in English)  5 ects
Analysis of "own" data (in English)  5 ects
Categorical data analysis (in English)  5 ects
fMRI Data and statistics (in English)  5 ects
Introduction to R and statistical computing (in English)  5 ects
Item response theory (in English)  5 ects
Multilevel analysis (in English)  5 ects
Statistical consulting (in English)  5 ects
Structural equation modelling (in English)  5 ects


Research master. All tracks
Applied multivariate data analysis - Spring & Fall semester (in English)  5 ects
Applied multivariate data analysis - Spring semester (in English)  5 ects
Research methods and statistics course books
  • Adèr H. J., Mellenbergh, G. J., & Hand, D. J. (2008). Advising on research methods: A consultant's companion. Huizen, The Netherlands: Johannes van Kessel
  • Agresti, A. (2007). An introduction to categorical data analyis (2nd Edition). New York: Wiley.
  • Byrne, B.M. (2006). Structural equation modeling with EQS: Basic concepts, applications and programming (2nd edition). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
  • Embretson, S.E. & Reise, S.P.(2000). Item response theory for psychologists. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
  • Field, A. (2009). Discovering statistics using SPSS (3rd edition). London: Sage.
  • Furr, R.M., & Bachrach, V.R. (2008). Psychometrics: An introduction. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Hox, J. (2010). Multilevel analysis. Techniques and applications (2nd edition). New York: Routledge.
  • Huettel, S.A., Song, A.W., & McCarthey, G. (2009). Functional magnetic resonance imaging (2nd edition). Sunderland, MA: Sinauer.
  • Leary, M.R. (2011). Introduction to behavioral research methods (6th edition). Boston, MA: Pearson
  • Shadish, W.R., Cook, T.D., & Campbell, D.T. (2001). Experimental and quasi-experimental designs for generalized causal inference (2nd revised edition). Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.
  • Singer, J.D., & Willett, KJ.B. (2003). Applied longitudinal data analysis: modeling change and event occurrence. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
  • Meyers, L.S., Gamst, G., & Guarino, A.J. (2006). Applied multivariate research: design and interpretation. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Moore, D.S., McCabe, G.P., & Craig, B.A. (2012). Introduction to the practice of statistics (7th edition). New York: W.H. Freeman.
  • Vocht, A. de (2011). Basishandboek SPSS 19. Utrecht: Bijleveld Press

Faculty-wide research-master courses

AMDA
Applied multivariate data analysis - Spring & Fall semester (in English)  5 ects
Applied multivariate data analysis - Spring semester (in English)  5 ects