The course is addressed for secondary school students and teachers, who would like to fresh their research skills and for I and II year university students. During the 9 weeks long course, participants will learn how to collect and analyze data with the computer and to draw conclusions.
Learning Objectives:
Plans and creates research with ICT; uses ICT activelyfor searching information and conducting inquiry; knows data collection methods for inquiry; Analyzes data with appropriate methods; analyzes research findings; knows how to study in distant mode.
Outcomes:
Course activities last nine weeks:
Week 1. Introduction to course, learning environment and getting familiar with each other;
week 2. Preparation of data collection and analysis;
week 3. Structuring, cleaning and encoding of data;
week 4. Getting overview of the data: frequency table, histogram and graphics
week 5. Processing data: means and dispersion
week 6: Investigating groups' differences
week 7: Investigating trends and relationships
week 8: Presenting results with infographics
week 9: Ending of the course, self-reflection
