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| Date |
Day |
Topics |
Assignment (due BEFORE class) |
| Th, 8/28 |
1 |
Introduction, Plan, Representing Data
Introduction
Why?
Touching all the bases
Once around the room
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| Th, 9/4 |
2 |
Descriptive Statistics:Collecting some data
- More "Why"?
- Some “How”?
- Frequency distributions
- Representing data
- Measures of Central Tendency
- Measures of Spread |
Come prepared to share aloud
some claim you’ve heard that
you might question.
Have read before Day 2:
-- Huff: all of it
-- Hinton: Ch. 1, 2, 3
-- S, Z, &, Z: Ch. 1, 2, 3
- Come with a guess as to what the most
important sentence is in S, Z, & Z
Ch. 2 (In my humble opinion.) |
| Th, 9/11 |
3 |
More descriptive statistics
- z scores
- Probabilty |
- Send an email be noon, 9/2/2003,
with a table/graph/chart that you've
read this past week.
-Have read before Day 3:
- Best (2001) |
| Th, 9/18 |
4 |
Research Methds I
- Operationalizing variables
- Hypothesis testing
- Sampling
- Independent and dependent variables
-Controls, Confounds, Counterbalancing |
- Have read before Day 5:
- Dethier: All of it
- Hinton: Ch. 4, 5, 6, 7
- S, Z &, Z: Ch. 7, 8
- Come to class prepared to say what
the key typo is in Hinton, Ch. 6! |
| Th, 9/25 |
5 |
Research Methods I (cont'd.)
- The ethics of studying humans
- Within-,Between-subject designs
- Reliability and validity
- Ceiling and floor effects |
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| Th. 10/2 |
6 |
Catch-up and Review |
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| Th, 10/9 |
7 |
- Mid-term exam
- Building a research proposal |
- Have read before Day 7.
- S, Z, & Z: Ch. 14 |
| Th, 10/16 |
8 |
Research Methods II
- The qualitative / quantitative
distinction
| Have read before Day 8:
- S, Z, & Z: Ch. 4, 5, 6, 10, 11
- Cronin (1992) |
| Th, 10/23 |
9 |
Research Methods II
(cont'd.)
- Guset Lecture: Qualitative
Methods |
Have read before Day 9:
- Gorman, G. E., et al. (1997)
(both articles) |
| Th, 10/30 |
10 |
Inferential Statistics
- standard error of the mean
- confidence intervals
- t tests
- statistical significance
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Have read before Day 10:
- Hinton: Ch. 8, 9
- S, Z, & Z: Ch. 12, 13 |
| Th, 11/6 |
11 |
Inferential Statistics (cont’d.)
- Chi-square
- Correlation
- Conduct an experiment and a t-test
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Have read before Day 11:
- Hinton: Ch. 20 |
| Th, 11/13 |
12 |
Inferntial Statistics (cont’d.)
- ANOVA |
- Have read before Day 12:
- Hinton, Ch. 10 - 15 |
| Th, 11/20 |
13 |
Research Methods III
- Which methods when?
- Interpreting results
- Bad science
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- Methods section project report
- Have read before Day 13:
- MacCoun (1998) |
| Th, 12/4 |
14 |
Final Exam |
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