ECHD 7920 Research Methods

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

This site includes handouts mentioned on the reading list plus related material. Many of these articles are examples designed to help you understand and practice the ideas discussed in class.

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COURSE OVERVIEW: ECHD 7920 Summer ‘06 Course syllabus Summer ‘06 Overview of daily topics Expanded readings Link to UGA academic honesty	ASSIGNMENT GUIDELINES Guidelines for Questionnaire Guidelines for Journal article critique NEW**Example of critique Guidelines for Research proposal Link to IRB certificate / quiz Link to citation / plagiarism sites (.rtf) How not to plagarize Baylor Univ plagarism information		POWERPOINT June 8 Scientific process June 13 Operationalization Validity/reliabity Causality June 20 Experiments June 22 Evaluation June 27 Sampling June 29 Surveys July 11 Data sets Univariate statistics Tests, mesaures, tables July 13 ANOVA July 18 Correlation Regression July 20 Review for statistics test July 25 Transition methods Intro to qualitative methods July 27: slides are included in Intro to Qualitative Methods from July 25 August 1 Final discussion of qualitative
Supportive Material and Exercises
MEASUREMENT Case studies, 6, 11, 13, 15 Conceptualization and measurement Talbott, "Older widows..." This article, though at times technical, discusses operationalizing daily physical activity and associated issues of validity and reliability RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN VARIABLES Case studies 31 Diagram hypotheses from newspaper articles	RESOURCES Definition of Positivism Case study answers Answers to sample exam questions Sample essay questions from old exams Handout: Sources of error
QUESTIONNAIRES Guide to examining class questionnaires Additional resource: Basic guide to questionnaires Handout: Asking questions about sensitive topics EXPERIMENTS Case studies 52		PROGRAM EVALUATION Case studies 22, 23 Measuring Program Outcomes United Way power point show NSF HANDBOOK (pdf files) Ch 1 and 2: Planning evaluations Ch 3: Overview of methods Ch 4: Writing reports Ch 5: Examples Additional resource: Basic guide to evaluation
SAMPLING Case studies 1, 3, 5 Gallup poll article on sampling error Example of snowball sample: Parks article on “Lesbian social drinking…”		SURVEYS Case studies 34 Gallup Poll description of survey process at www.gallup.com: Frequently Asked Questions Roper Poll has an explanation of national polls linked here
OTHER METHODS Additional resource: Basic guide to interviews Additional resource: Basic guide to focus groups		SECONDARY DATA ANALYSIS Healthy People 2010—example of large study using secondary data; good working definitions Handout of examples of secondary data
STATISTICS Handout: Interpreting Statistics Examples of Statistics Ex 12: Mean and Std. Deviation Ex 13: Mean, Std. Dev, and 68% Ex 25: Std. Error of Mean, Conf. Interval Ex 38: Chi Square I Ex 39: Chi Square II Ex 27: t-Test Ex 33: ANOVA Ex 34: ANOVA with Confidence Intervals Ex 19: Correlation Ex 31: Significance of Correlation Ex 23: Linear regression Statistics exercise answers		ETHICS UGA IRB website (human subjects) ANZALS ethics statement: Ethics in Research Case study: 28, 29, 38 Practice examples of ethics scenarios Link to IRB certificate / quiz
		QUALITATIVE RESEARCH Excerpt: Samdahl’s chapter on quantitative and qualitative research Sample transcript to code Excerpt from Johnson’s dissertation Optional qualitative research article on Sports fan research
SPSS SPSS data entry (instructions) Statistical analysis w/ SPSS (instructions) Retrieve the questionnaire
COPY OF ALL CASE STUDY EXERCISES Case studies 1, 3, 5, 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 31, 34, 52, 22, 23, 28, 29, 38 Case study answers