SAY743 - EXAMINING THE DHS WORKSHOP
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EXAMINING THE DHS WORKSHOP | SAY743 | Any Semester/Year | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 |
| Prequisites | None | |||||
| Course language | English | |||||
| Course type | Elective | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-Face | |||||
| Learning and teaching strategies | Drill and Practice | |||||
| Instructor (s) | Instructor Dr. Pelin Çağatay | |||||
| Course objective | To expose students into real life research problems and questions by examining the Turkey Demographic and Health Survey | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
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| Course Content | Changes by the term, depending on the research issues faced by faculty. | |||||
| References | Depends. All main survey reports of previous Turkey DHS Surveys DHS manuals | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Brief Information on Turkey Demographic and Health Survey |
| Week 2 | Basic Sample design features |
| Week 3 | Choice of domains |
| Week 4 | Stratification |
| Week 5 | Target sample size |
| Week 6 | Degree of clustering |
| Week 7 | Sampling stages |
| Week 8 | Cartographic and listing work |
| Week 9 | Questionnaires |
| Week 10 | Information on fieldwork, including descriptions of the recruitment and training of interviewers, the composition of interviewing teams, quality control procedures, and various practical problems encountered |
| Week 11 | Information on fieldwork, including descriptions of the recruitment and training of interviewers, the composition of interviewing teams, quality control procedures, and various practical problems encountered (continued) |
| Week 12 | Response rates |
| Week 13 | Data processing |
| Week 14 | Data analysis, The calculation of the final weighting factors (design and non-response weights) |
| Week 15 | Preparation for Final Exam |
| Week 16 | Final Exam |
Assesment methods
| Course activities | Number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 0 | 0 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 |
| Assignments | 5 | 25 |
| Presentation | 0 | 0 |
| Project | 1 | 25 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms | 0 | 0 |
| Final exam | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
| Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes | 6 | 50 |
| Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION
| Activities | Number | Duration (hour) | Total Work Load |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (x14) | 16 | 2 | 32 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect) | 14 | 4 | 56 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Homework assignment | 5 | 16 | 80 |
| Midterms (Study duration) | 1 | 42 | 42 |
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 1 | 90 | 90 |
| Total Workload | 37 | 154 | 300 |
Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes
| D.9. Key Learning Outcomes | Contrubition level* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1. Gains theoretical knowledge on research methodology, concepts on quantitative research methods, quantitative sampling techniques, learning, implementing, and developing models and techniques in quantitative analysis, theory, and develops skills to transform and improve knowledge into design, implementation, analysis. | X | ||||
| 2. Gains theoretical knowledge on qualitative research methods, theory, and skills to transform and improve knowledge into design, sampling, generating data and analysis, knowledge on differences between methods and their use, improvement/combined use of these methods, evaluation with experts and institutions, focus groups and in-depth interviews, skills to implement them. | X | ||||
| 3. Gains ability to evaluate quality of researches, interpret/improve results with experts and institutions, transform the results into oral/written presentations, and present them at (inter)national meetings. | X | ||||
| 4. Develops skills to conduct generalizable research, interpret results of analyses, transform them into publications abiding by ethics, gain ability and consciousness to prepare (inter)national projects, evaluate them with experts and institutions. | X | ||||
| 5. Contributes to development of methods by producing a thesis using research methods. | X | ||||
| 6. Follows international publications, communicate with colleguaes, using English at a level no lower than the Common European Framework of References for Languages C1. | X | ||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest