Syllabus

Course Code: MSW(C) -403    Course Name: Social Work Research and Statistics-II

MODULE NO / UNIT COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE NOTES
1 - Social Work Research – meaning, purpose and process
- Scope and importance of Social Work Research
- Qualitative and Participatory Research – meaning, characteristics and use of these methods in inquiry
- Research Design – meaning and types
2 - Measures of Central Tendency: meaning, uses, and computation of mean, median and mode.
- Measures of Dispersion: meaning, assumptions, uses and computation of range, quartile deviation, standard deviation and average deviation
- Correlation-meaning, assumption, uses, computation and interpretation of product moment and rank difference correlation
3 - Normal Probability Curve- an overview
- Simple Regression: Regression Equation of Y on X and X on Y.
- Chi Square Test- meaning, assumption, uses and computation by hypothesis of equality and independence
- Significance of difference between (i) Means (2) Proportion
4 - Research Report – purpose, characteristics and steps of writing report
- References and Bibliography
- Computer for Data Processing, Basics of MS Word and MS Excel.
- Basics of SPSS and its use in Social Work Research.
- Data management, analysis and presentation.
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