Date

Topic

Reading

Assignment due

1/27

Introduction:  What is Research

 Limbering up exercise

2/3

Getting Started:  

Choosing Questions

Bernard: Ch. 1-3

(Skim pp. 7-20)

APA Ch. 1

1. NIH Tutorial

2/10

Method:  Sampling

Describing the sample (SPSS)

Bernard:  Ch. 5

Leavitt: Ch. 4 & 5

APA Ch. 2 - 3.52

2.  Annotated bibliography

2/17

2/20

THURS

Research Design:  Types of Data and Operationalizing

Bernard:  Ch. 4

Leavitt:  Ch. 6

3.  Describing the sample

2/24

Design, Continued

Power; Between & Within

Bernard:  Ch. 14

Leavitt: p.155 &165 

4.  IRB proposal

due by semester end 

3/3

Design:  Between & within cont'd

Using other people's data

Class exercise and answers here

Leavitt: Ch.10 & 15

Arcus (2002) (.pdf)

 5.  Comparing the samples

3/10

Review & Exam I: 

Open book & open notes

No consultants; No laptops

Bring research question

3/17

No class (Spring Break)

3/24

Interviewing and Coding

Reliability & Validity Indices

Bernard:  Ch 6, 7, and 12

[FYI: example focus groups]

3/31

Preliminary data

 Meet in regular class :-(

Bernard:  Ch. 8

Leavitt:  Ch. 13

 5.  Preliminary data plan  due 4/7 with Methods

4/7

Survey/Observation Strategies

 Intro to Inferential Statistics

Bernard:  Ch. 9, 10

(Leavitt: Ch. 12)

6.  Method

4/14

Getting results

Bivariate Statistical Analysis

Bernard:  Ch. 15

4/21

No class this week (SRCD)

Use time for research proposal

4/28

Getting results, cont’d

Multivariate Statistical Analysis

Bernard:  Ch. 16

7.  Data analysis

optional--last chance for written feedback

5/5

Oral Project Presentations

Last class

5/12

Exam II due to secretaries by 4:00 or under my door by 6:00 pm