Course Objective:
Course Outcomes (COs):
Course |
Course outcome (at course level) |
Learning and teaching strategies |
Assessment Strategies |
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Paper Code- |
Paper Title |
CO 36.Acquaintance with the Contemporary issues in Management. CO 37.Prepare a report based on Systematic review of Literature. CO 38.Learn to apply Descriptive as well as statistical tools for data analysis using SPSS.
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Approach in teaching: Lab class and regular interaction with supervisor
Learning activities for the students: SPSS exercises, Presentations |
Viva and Presentation |
MAM 128
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Seminar on Contemporary Issues |
Course Contents: Students are required to finalize the topic of their seminar report in consultation with their supervisor. The report is based on systematic review of literature. Students are required to undergo a systematic review of literature and come up with a research agenda which may further be used as the basis of a research project. 30 hours lab sessions are provided for hands on training on SPSS and systematic review of literature to the students as follows for covering the following:
Apart from the 30 hrs. lab sessions, students are required to devote 4 hrs. per week under the supervision of their respective supervisors on regular basis for guidance on report.
Systematic Review of Literature- Resource Discovery and Gathering of Information, how to review literature systematically
SPSS Statistics Environment-Data Editor, Importing data, SPSS Viewer, SPSS output exporting, Syntax Editor, Saving Files, Retrieving files
Exploring Data with Graphs- Histogram, Box Plots, Bar Charts, Scatter plots, Line Charts
Bias- Assumptions, Outliers, Additivity & Linearity, Normality, Homoscedasticity, Spotting bias and Reducing Bias,
Descriptive Analysis – Mean, Standard Deviation, Kurtosis, Skewness
Parametric Tests- one sample t test, Independent sample t test, Chi square, One Way Anova
Non Parametric Tests- Wilcoxon rank sum test, Mann-Whitney Test, Kriskal Wallis Test, Freidman’s ANOVA
Correlation- Bivariate Correlation, Partial Correlation, Comparing Correlations, Effect size of correlation, reporting correlation coefficients
• Andy Field, Discovering Statistics using IBM SPSS Statistics, Sage Publishers
• David Gough, Sandy Oliver and James Thomas, An Introduction to Systematic Reviews, Sage Publications
• Anthony J Onwuegbuzie & Rebecca Frels, Seven Steps to a Comprehensive Literature
• Review- A Multimodal and Cultural Approach, Sage Publications