TIES501 Seminar

Dictionaries

• Oxford
• Collins
• MOT

Writing

• Book serie by Ardian Wallwork, English for Academic Research:
  • English for Writing Research Papers
  • Grammar exercises
  • Vocabulary exercises
  • Writing exercises

Philosophy of science

• Ontological, epistemological, and methodological questions

Research methods

• Tommi K's seminar slides on research methods from autumn 2013
• One research methods taxonomy
• Bridging the qualitative–quantitative divide: guidelines for conducting mixed methods research in information systems. Venkatesh et al. MIS Quarterly Vol. X No. X, pp. 1-XX/Forthcoming 2012–2013.
• Why Triangulate? Sandra Mathison Source: Educational Researcher, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Mar., 1988), pp. 13-17.

Qualitative research

• The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research. 2011. Edited by Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln.
• Qualitative Data Analysis. 1984. Miles, B.M. & Huberman, A.M. Newbury Park, CA: SAGE Publications.
• Conducting thematic analysis on qualitative data: Attride-Stirling, Jennifer. 2001. Thematic networks: an analytic tool for qualitative research. Qualitative Research 1(3): 385–405.
• Components of objecitivity (reliability and validity) in qualitative research

Quantitative research

• Survey research:
  • Krosnick, J.A. 1999. Survey Research. Annu. Rev. Psychol. 50:537-67.
  • Bartlett, J. E., Kotrlik, J. W. & Higgins, C. C. (2001). Organizational Research: Determining Appropriate Sample Size in Survey Research. Information Technology, Learning, and Performance Journal, 19(1): 43-50.
  • Jansen, Harrie (2010). The Logic of Qualitative Survey Research and its Position in the Field of Social Research Methods [63 paragraphs]. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 11(2), Art. 11

Evaluation

• See suggestions for technology validation
• Kitchenham (1996). Evaluating Software Engineering Methods and Tool. Part 1: The evaluation Context and Evaluation Methods. ACM SIGSOFT. Software Engineering Notes 21(1).