This course is designed to help students write proposals, design experiments and collect and analyze data in a scientific way. The knowledge of computer applications is a pre-requisite for this course.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
By end of this course, the learners should be able to:
- Choose and formulate a good research topic
- Formulate good research questions, hypothesis, objectives and problem statement
- Write good backgrounds and abstracts
- Apply the reading and writing strategies to do a literature review with proper citations
- Design experimental protocols based on scientific experimental designs
- Present results scientifically and analyze them using statistically
- Make predictions, back them with evidence, evaluate the evidence as well as make counter arguments when discussing results
- Make scientific conclusions and recommendations based on hypothesis testing
- Write proper references, draw a research work plan and budget
EXPECTED OUTCOMES
- A well written research proposal.
- A bility to present results and analyze them scientifically, discuss them and make conclusions.
- Teacher: Julius Tabi