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SOCA-D209

Initiation aux méthodes quantitatives

academic year
2025-2026
2026-2027

Course teacher(s)

Chiara GIORDANO (Coordinator) and Dirk JACOBS

ECTS credits

5

Language(s) of instruction

french

Course content

Subjects: What is the "science" in social science? - Research Design - Validity and reliability - Sampling - Questionnaire Design - Data collection - Data analysis

Objectives (and/or specific learning outcomes)

Introduction to quantitative methods: understand the link between conceptualisation and operationalisation ; understand the difference between statistical and descriptive inference; understand the concepts of validity and reliability ; being able to construct a standardised questionnaire ;

Teaching methods and learning activities

ex cathedra

References, bibliography, and recommended reading

the course material is available online on the université virtuelle and there is a printed version at PUB

Course notes

  • Syllabus
  • Université virtuelle

Other information

Contacts

dirk.jacobs@ulb.ac.be

lors de l'année académique 2026-2027 le cours sera assuré par Chiara Giordano 

edouard.francq@ulb.be (assistant AEX du cours)

Campus

Solbosch

Evaluation

Method(s) of evaluation

  • written examination
  • Other

written examination

  • Closed question with multiple choices (MCQ)
  • Open question with fill-in the blanks text
  • Closed question True or False (T/F)

Other

written exam 

Language(s) of evaluation

  • french

Programmes