Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Methods and techniques of scientific and research work (17.IMDR13)

General information:

Category	Professional-applicative
Scientific or art field	Quality, Effectiveness and Logistics Proizvodni i uslužni sistemi, organizacija i menadžment
ECTS	12

The aim of this course is to provide students with practical knowledge about how to conduct a scientific research. Students will be introduced with practical knowledge about library and indexed database searching methods, techniques and tools, electronic journals aggregators, quick and/or detailed paper reviews, reading and analyzing scientific publications, as well as how to synthesize research findings, in order to identify research trends and leading opinions of academics and practitioners. In addition, the student will be familiarized with the concept, importance and practical aspects of applying basic methods of research data acquisition, statistical analysis, and drawing research conclusions. Finally, students are familiarized with principles of research ethics.

Upon completing this course and an exam, the student will be able to define research goal, research motives, problem of the study, as well as to develop research framework and research model. Using the basic statistical methods, the student will be able to analyze aforementioned concepts, provide valid answers for research questions and to draw statistical conclusions.

Introduction to methods of scientific and research work, basic concepts, how to define research goals, motives, how to define problem of the study, types of research, scientific and professional publications, methods and techniques of database search engines, indexed databases and aggregators of electronic journals, methods and techniques of quick and/or thorough paper reviewing process, reading and analysis of academic and practitioner papers, synthesis of publications, application of basic statistical methods and drawing statistical conclusions in research, structuring and research results presentation, writing of research publications. Review of ethical principles in writing and publishing research publications.

Lectures, research work, consultations. The rating is based on the success of the project and an oral exam.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Marta Peris-Ortiz, José Álvarez-García	Action-Based Quality Management: Strategy and Tools for Continuous Improvement	2014	Springer International Publishing	English
Hair, J.F.; Black, W.C.; Babin, B.J.; Anderson, R.E.	Multivariate data analysis	2010	Pearson Prentice Hal	English
Jesson, J.K.; Matheson, L.; Lacey, F.M	Doing Your Literature Review: traditional and systematic techniques	2011	SAGE Publications Ltd	English
Cargill, M.; OConor, P	Writing scientific research articles: strategy and steps	2009	John Wiley & Sons, Ltd	English
Roberts, H.; Petticrew, M.	Systematic reviews in the social sciences: a practical guide	2006	Blackwell Publishing Ltd	English

Course activity	Pre-examination	Obligations	Number of points
Oral part of the exam	No	Yes	50.00
Project	Yes	Yes	50.00

Prof. Delić Milan

Full Professor

Lectures

Prof. Pečujlija Mladen

Full Professor

Lectures

Faculty of Technical Sciences

University of Novi Sad

Contact:

Address: Trg Dositeja Obradovića 6, 21102 Novi Sad

Phone: (+381) 21 450 810
(+381) 21 6350 413

Fax : (+381) 21 458 133
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