47.269 RESEARCH I:  Basics

Course Materials & Resources

• Acceptable Colloquia

• Colloquia Attendance form (save form on your computer to edit, print, and hand in hard copy)

• Directions for accessing Blackboard materials for weekly quizzes and exams

• Textbook website

• Textbook Workshops in Research Methods and Statistics (see schedule; highly recommended)

• Powerpoint presentation on Evaluating Sources & library research

• Powerpoint on Ethics in Research

• Link to Frontline's A Class Divided (brown eyes-blue eyes)

  • It is not research but notice the way she is able to "undo" based on her continuing relationship with the children in her class.  Debriefing must have the capacity to undo any potential harm

• Institutional Review Board (IRB) at UMass Lowell

• 1993 Boston Globe article on ethical violations in research at Fernald St. School

• The Power of the Situation video describing The Stanford Prison Experiment and other classic studies

  • Video Guide

  • Materials used in the study including Consent forms

  • An extensive Web site for the Stanford Prison Experiment, including day-by-day summaries, as well as images and video clips, is available. http://www.prisonexp.org/.

• Replication of Solomon Asch's classic experiments on Conformity

• Correspondence RE: Power Rangers Study and ethics

• The classic Bobo Study by Albert Bandura (notice that none of the control condition or results are shown)

• Explore the Implicit Association Test  If you are trying to take the test in the UMass Lowell library and are prevented from downloading some piece that is critical to doing so, please ask a librarian for help.

• An excellent summary of psychometric (reliability, validity) measures at NCTSN (be sure to scroll down)

• The FACS or Facial Action Coding System

• The Lab-TAB or Laboratory Temperament Assessment Battery (elicitation of behavior)

• Attachment behavior: Harry Harlow studies rhesus monkeys

• Powerpoint presentation on Describing Variables--intro to descriptive statistics

• Descriptive stats, cont'd., sampling, law of large numbers, and types of data

• Samples and Sampling, Powerpoint, Week 7

• Week 10

  • Nov 1 lecture material on difference between/difference within

  • Nov 3 lecture material on more of the between, within, and mixed designs

• Week 11

  •    Factorial design lecture material. Part 1.  Part 2

   

• Week 14 lecture material

  • Basis for inferential statistics

  • Desision table for which statistical tests to use

• Correlation samples

• Final Research Proposal Checklist

• Sample of a student research proposal. This is a great example of a research proposal, even if it is not be perfect. For example:

  • If there were multiple pictures used, there could be a better sampling and a within subject design due to the likely variability of judgments across subjects. Then the pictures and the labels (Larry, Laurie, none) could be counterbalanced across participants.

  • The proposal is written using the 5th edition of the APA Publication Manual (you will use the 6th). 

  • There is also a convenience sample used; I suspect this is a proposal for a study that actually had to be carried out. Hence the design would be simpler. Remember you are not going to do yours. So you can think bigger. Still, a very nice example
     

• Samples of student experiments carried out in Research III: Laboratory.