Sociology 3155: Quantiative Research Methods and Analysis
Spring 2008
Subject to change: check web schedule if you miss class!!
| Week One: |
Topics/Activities
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Assignment
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| Jan 23 | Diagnostic quiz | |
| Jan 25 Powerpoint 1 | Measures of dispersion: lecture and SPSS examples | Healey, chapter 4 |
| Week Two:Jan 28 Powerpoint 2 |
The normal curve: lecture | Healey, chapter 5. Bring texts to class. |
| Jan 30 Powerpoint 3 | Introduction to Inferential Statistics | |
| Feb 1 | Sampling and Sampling distributions | Healey, chapter six. Homework 1 |
| Week Three: Feb 4 Powerpoint 4 | Confidence Intervals | |
| Feb 6 | Healey, chapter seven | |
| Feb 8 | Homework 2 | |
| Week Four:Feb 11 | Hypothesis testing: the one sample case | |
| Feb 13 Powerpoint 5 | Student's t-distribution | Healey, chapter eight |
| Feb 15 | Hypothesis testing: the two sample case | Homework 3 |
| Week Five: Feb 18 | Healey, chapter nine | |
| Feb 20 | Homework 4: | |
| Feb 22 Powerpoint 6 | Analysis of Variance | Healey, chapter ten |
| Week Six:Feb 25 | Homework 5: ANOVA | |
| Feb 27 Powerpoint 7 | Chi Square | Healey, chapter 11 |
| Feb 29 | Study Guide 1 | Homework 6 |
| Week Seven: Mar 3 | Inferential statistics | Review |
| Mar 5 | Exam One | |
| Mar 7 Powerpoint 8 | Bivariate relationships/cross tabulation: a Review | Healey, chapter 12 : Bivariate Association |
| Week Eight: Mar 10 | Review of exam and optional homework on cross tabs | Homework 7 |
| Mar 12 Powerpoint 9 | Healey, chapter 13: Bivariate association, Nominal variables | |
| Mar 14 | Homework 8 | |
| Week Nine: Mar 24 Powerpoint 10 |
Healey, chapter 14: Bivariate association, ordinal variables | |
| Mar 26 | Secondary research and the ICPSR. Guest speaker Rob Weidner. | Be sure you are registered to use the IPSCR website; try out your password ahead of time |
| Mar 28 | Homework 9 | |
| Week Ten: Mar 31 Powerpoint 11 |
Bivariate Correlation and Regression: a nice outline | Healey, chapter 15: Bivariate association, interval/ration variables |
| April 2 | Homework 10: Work through SPSS demonstrations 15.1-15.2, starting on p. 421, and then do SPSS 15.1-15.3 on p. 424 | |
| April 4 Powerpoint 12 | Chapter 16: Elaborating Bivariate Tables | |
| Week Eleven: April 7 | ||
| April 9 | Homework 11: Work through SPSS demonstrations 16.1 and 16.2 (pp. 458-459) and then to SPSS exercizes 16.1 and 16.2 (p. 460) | |
| April 11 | ||
| Week Twelve: April 14 | Chapter 17: Partial Correlation and Multiple Correlation & Regression | |
| April 16 | Homework 12: SPSS 17.1, 17.2, and 17.3, p. 490 | |
| April 18 | Study Guide 2. Optional Review Session. . | |
| Week Thirteen: April 21 | Exam Two | |
| April 23 | Introducing Cumulative Exercise 1 | |
| April 25 | ||
| Week Fourteen: April 28 | Cumulative Exercise 1 due at the beginning of class | |
| April 30 | ||
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| Week Fifteen: May 5 | .Cumulative Exercise 2 due at the beginning of class. | |
| May 7 | ||
| May 9 | .Cumulative Exercise 3 (see below for due date) |
The final assignment must be turned in by noon on Thursday, May 15, 2008.