COURSE SYLLABUS

RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTAL METHODS

1	Course Title:	RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTAL METHODS
2	Course Code:	TAR3324-Z
3	Type of Course:	Compulsory
4	Level of Course:	First Cycle
5	Year of Study:	3
6	Semester:	6
7	ECTS Credits Allocated:	4
8	Theoretical (hour/week):	2
9	Practice (hour/week) :	2
10	Laboratory (hour/week) :	0
11	Prerequisites:	-
12	Recommended optional programme components:	None
13	Language:	Turkish
14	Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
15	Course Coordinator:	Prof. Dr. A.TANJU GÖKSOY
16	Course Lecturers:	-
17	Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:	agoksoy@uludag.edu.tr 0 224 2941515 Uludağ Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi Tarla Bitkileri Bölümü Görükle/Bursa
18	Website:
19	Objective of the Course:	To train students in understanding of basic principles of developing and research. To provide knowledge on basic principles of agricultural experiments. To give knowledge on statistical principles in planning experiments. To train students in statistically analysis of agricultural experimentals.
20	Contribution of the Course to Professional Development

Learning Outcomes:

1	Be able to understand research idea and it’s important in development;
2	Be able to know on principles of developing and research;
3	Be able to earn skill on planning of research projects and their evaluation on the base national and international;
4	Be able to select suitable experimental design in order to increase truth degree in experiment;
5	Be able to measure and observe the characters according to statistical principles;
6	Be able to select suitable experimental design according to purpose of research;
7	Be able to earn skill on conducte of trials in good health and niceness;
8	Be able to earn skill on right and objective deciding;

22	Course Content:

Week	Theoretical	Practical
1	Introduction to Research and Experimental Methods ; Research and it’s role in development Research and Scientific Method, planning of the researches in the national, kinds of research	Visit to ULUTEK
2	Arangement of the agricultural trials, increase truth degree in experiment, experimental error and factors decreasing it. Kinds of the agricultural trial	Visit to agricultural trials
3	Basic and statistical principals; mean, Standard error of mean, Standard deviation, estimation of mean of teorical treatment population, Bartlett, Levene and F tests, significance test	Solving problems on the F-test, Barlett test, Levene test and hypothesis tests
4	Comparison of two groups ; paired samples	Solving problems on the matched pairs
5	Comparison of two groups ; independend samples method	Solving problems on the independend samples method
6	Analysis of variance (ANOVA); significance tests and estimation of variance components	Solving problems on analysis of variance
7	Introduction to experimental desing; Completely randomized design and analysis	Solving problems on the completely randomized design
8	Grouping of different treatments; LSD and Duncan’s multiple range tests and orthogonal comparisons	Solving problems on LSD and Duncan tests
9	Completely randomized design (with different replication number) and analysis Midterm exam	Work on the completely randomized design(with different replication number
10	Two-way classifications; Randomized block design	Solving problems on randomized block design
11	Statistically analysis and significance tests in randomized block design	Solving problems on statistically analysis and significance tests in randomized block design
12	Latin Square Design; analysis of variance and significance tests	Solving problems on Latin square design
13	Two factorial experiments; statistically analysis and significance test	Solving problems on two factorial experiments
14	Three factorial experiments; statistically analysis and significance test	Solving problems on three factorial experiments

23	Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:	1.Turan, Z.M., 1995. Araştırma ve Deneme Metodları. UÜZF Ders Notları No : 62 ,Bursa. 2. Gomez,K.A.,and A.A.Gomez.1983.Statistical Procedures for Agricultural Research.John Wiley Sons, Newyork. 3.Little,T.M.,andF.J.Hills.1977.Agricultural Experimentation.Design and Analysis.John Wiley Sons, Newyork.
24	Assesment

TERM LEARNING ACTIVITIES	NUMBER	PERCENT
Midterm Exam	1	30
Quiz	0	0
Homeworks, Performances	8	10
Final Exam	1	60
Total	10	100
Contribution of Term (Year) Learning Activities to Success Grade		40
Contribution of Final Exam to Success Grade		60
Total		100
Measurement and Evaluation Techniques Used in the Course
Information

ECTS / WORK LOAD TABLE

Activites	NUMBER	TIME [Hour]	Total WorkLoad [Hour]
Theoretical	14	2	28
Practicals/Labs	14	2	28
Self Study and Preparation	10	2	20
Homeworks, Performances	8	3	12
Projects	0	0	0
Field Studies	0	0	0
Midtermexams	1	12	12
Others	0	0	0
Final Exams	1	20	20
Total WorkLoad			120
Total workload/ 30 hr			4
ECTS Credit of the Course			4

CONTRIBUTION OF LEARNING OUTCOMES TO PROGRAMME QUALIFICATIONS

	PQ1	PQ2	PQ3	PQ4	PQ5	PQ6	PQ7	PQ8	PQ9	PQ10	PQ11
LO1	3	2	3	3	3	4	4	3	4	3	4
LO2	2	2	3	3	3	3	4	3	3	3	2
LO3	3	2	5	3	3	2	3	3	5	3	3
LO4	3	2	3	4	3	1	2	3	3	2	4
LO5	1	2	4	2	3	4	3	4	2	4	3
LO6	3	3	4	3	1	3	2	4	3	3	4
LO7	3	2	2	3	2	3	4	3	3	2	3
LO8	3	3	5	4	2	3	4	4	3	3	4

LO: Learning Objectives

PQ: Program Qualifications

Contribution Level:

1 Very Low

2 Low

3 Medium

4 High

5 Very High