Schedule - INF 397C - Fall 2017

This is the schedule

Date	Topic	Materials	In-class activities	Assignments	Project
Sept 5	Reading articles and Ethics in Research	Syllabus Reading-related videos: How to Read an Academic Paper (3:15) How to read a scientific paper (5:30) Ethics videos: Five psychology experiments (10:54) Research Ethics video with Prof. Levine (3:30) Belmont Report (9:15) Facebook's emotion research study (6:30)	Syllabus overview Introductions Getting involved in research Discussion of Ethics and background		Start thinking about project teams (groups of three)
Sept 12	What is research, theoretical perspectives	Gray Chapters 1,2 Cronin, "When is a problem a research problem?" Hernon, "Components of the Research Process: Where Do We Need to Focus Attention?" (UTeid protected link)	Systematic thinking about research
Sept 19	Qualitative research design and data collection	Gray chapters 7, 10, 14		Assignment 1: IRB Certification	Finalize project teams, email instructor group member names
Sept 26	Designing research projects, literature review	Gray chapters 3, 5	No class. Work on group assignment #2,		Project deliverable 1: Statement, significance, demographics, literature review
Oct 3	Quantitative and action research design and sampling	Gray chapters 6, 13,
Oct 10	Mixed methods, interviews, focus groups	Gray chapters 8, 15, 18 Additional readings - A/B testing
Oct 17	Data collection: observation, unobtrusive analysis, secondary analysis	Gray chapters 16, 19, 20		Assignment 2: Survey instrument design
Oct 24	Designing evaluations, ethnography	Gray chapters 12, 17			Project deliverable 2: Research design
Oct 31	Quantitative data analysis	Gray chapter 22 Additional readings about levels of measurement
Nov 7	Quantitative data analysis - inferential statistics	Gray chapter 22			Project deliverable 3: Data collection methods, instruments
Nov 14	Qualitative data analysis	Gray chapter 23		Assignment 3: Critique a research article	Project deliverable 4: Submit complete proposal via Canvas
Nov 21	Qualitative data analysis	Gray chapter 23
Nov 28	Presenting results
Dec 5	Wrap up				Project deliverable 5: Data collection and analysis
	I will be traveling for presenting research at academic conference