Schedule - INF 397C - Fall 2018
Evolving schedule
| Date | Topic | Materials | In-class activities | Individual Assignments | Group work |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sept 10 | Introduction and Introductions, Ethics in Research | Syllabus Reading-related videos: Ethics videos: | Syllabus overview What is research? Introductions | Start thinking about project/task teams (groups of three) | |
| Sept 17 | Epistemological perspectives | Gray Chapters 1,2, 4 | Systematic thinking about research | ||
| Sept 24 | Qualitative and Quantitative research design, Mixed methods | Gray chapter 6, 7, 8 | IRB Certification | ||
| Oct 1 | Data collection methods: questionnaires, interviews, and focus groups | Gray chapters 10, 14, 15, 18 | |||
| Oct 8 | No class. Work on questionnaire design assignment | Communicating Research Motivation | |||
| Oct 15 | Continued - Data collection methods | ||||
| Oct 22 | --- Class canceled due to instructor's health issues — readings moved to following session | Critique a research article | |||
| Oct 29 | Data collection methods: observation, unobtrusive, ethnography, secondary analysis | Gray chapters 16, 17, 19, | |||
| Nov 5 | Quantitative analysis: descriptive statistics | Gray chapter 24 (609-624) | Questionnaire Design | ||
| Nov 12 | Quantitative analysis: inferential statistics | Gray chapter 24 (pages 624-end) | |||
| Nov 19 | Qualitative data analysis: | Gray chapter 26 | Experiment Design | ||
| Nov 26 | Presenting results | Gray chapters 27, 28 | |||
| Dec 3 | Research Bias, Review, Wrap-up | Why you can't Accept the Null Hypothesis 9 types research bias and how to avoid them Overcoming Social Desirability Bias – He’s Got a Little List 6 Science-backed Ways to Reduce the Social Desirability Bias | |||
| Dec 10 | No class session | Quantitative data analysis (11:59pm) | |||
| Travel day | |||||