Unit QUANTITATIVE METHODS FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH
- Course
- Social policies and social work
- Study-unit Code
- A001412
- Curriculum
- Impresa sociale
- Teacher
- Michela Gnaldi
- Teachers
-
- Michela Gnaldi
- Hours
- 63 ore - Michela Gnaldi
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline politiche, economiche e statistiche
- Academic discipline
- SECS-S/05
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- PART I
The measurement of social phenomena
PART II
The construction and validation of measurement scales
Composite Indicators
PART III
Students’ project works - Reference texts
- OECD. (2008). Handbook on constructing composite indicators: Methodology and user guide. Paris:
OECD Publishing, OECD. - Educational objectives
- The aim of the course, in the quantitative methodological area, is to offer students with the methodological foundations necessary for grasping the complexity of social phenomena and their measurement, with particular attention to the construction of composite indicators as tools for synthetize them.
- Prerequisites
- Previous knowledge of introductory statistics is hoped pre-requisite.
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, practical work and project work. In the case of coronavirus emergency, lectures will be given also on line.
- Other information
- None
- Learning verification modality
- Written exam, and project work. In the case of coronavirus emergency, lectures will be given also on line.
- Extended program
- PART I
The measurement of social phenomena
PART II
The construction and validation of measurement scales
Composite Indicators
PART III
Students’ project works