Mandatory course literature
Rachad Antonius (2003) Interpreting Quantitative Data with SPSS. Sage, London. (Selected parts, see reading instructions below) DOI: http://dx.doi.org.focus.lib.kth.se/10.4135/9781849209328 *
The three chapters: “Essential Steps Before Writing a Paper”, “Drafting Papers” and “Linguistic Points” in Blackwell, J. and Martin, J. (2011). A Scientific Approach to Scientific Writing [Electronic resource at KTH Library]: New York, NY, Springer New York. *
Thomas Cleff (2014) Exploratory data analysis in Business and Economics. An introduction using SPSS, Stata and Excel. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland (Selected parts, see reading instructions below) DOI https://doi-org.focus.lib.kth.se/10.1007/978-3-319-01517-0 *
Page 12-15 in: The epistemology of qualitative research in: Dahlgren, L, Emmelin, M., Winkvist, A. (2004). Qualitative Methodology for International Public Health, Umeå University 34. (Found on Canvas)
EN ISO 9241-11 “Ergonomics of human-system interaction – Part 11: Usability: Definitions and concepts (ISO 9241-11:2018). (Found on Canvas). The first part of the document is in Swedish and the second part starting from page 45 is the English translation of the first Swedish part.
Chapter 5, chapter 6 and chapter 8 in: Edwards, R. and Holland, J. (2013). What is qualitative interviewing? [Electronic resource]: A&C Black.*
Graneheim, U. H., and Lundman, B. (2004). Qualitative content analysis in nursing research: concepts, procedures and measures to achieve trustworthiness. Nurse education today, 24(2), 105-112. (Found under files, literature on Canvas)
Graneheim, U. H., Lindgren, B. M., and Lundman, B. (2017). Methodological challenges in qualitative content analysis: A discussion paper. Nurse education today, 56, 29-34. (Found under files, literature on Canvas)
Jick, T. D. (1979). Mixing qualitative and quantitative methods: Triangulation in action. Administrative science quarterly, 24(4), 602-611. (Found on Canvas)
Chapter 2 and 3 in: Saracci, R. (2010) Epidemology. A very short introduction. Oxford University Press. (Found on Canvas)
Chapter 2, Action Research and Interactive Research in: Svensson, L. & Aagaard Nielsen, K. (2006) Action and Interactive Research. Beyond practice and theory. Shaker Publishing. (Found on Canvas)
Watson, P. F., & Petrie, A. (2010). Method agreement analysis: a review of correct methodology. Theriogenology, 73(9), 1167-1179. (Found on Canvas)
Williamson, K. (2002). Research methods for students, academics and professionals: Information management and systems. Elsevier, Second Edition*
* Available for free after login at www.kth.se/kthb
Recommended course literature
Büttcher, S., Clarke, C. L., & Cormack, G. V. (2016). Information retrieval: Implementing and evaluating search engines. Mit Press. ISBN: 9780262528870
First three sections (Introduction, Different types of methods and Data collection methods) in chapter 9 in MOOC/Book Technology and Work on human terms.
Chapter 4 and chapter 5 in: Wilson, R., Corlett N. (eds) In: Evaluation of Human Work, London: Taylor & Francis
Ried K. Interpreting and understanding meta-analysis graphs: a practical guide. Australian Family Physician Vol. 35, No. 8, August 2006