Quantitative Methods
Course Calendar
| Date | Topics | Readings |
| First Week | Introduction to the Course | Singleton et al. (ch. 1) Williams & Monge (ch. 1 & 2) |
| Overview of Scientific Inquiry | Singleton et al. (ch. 2) | |
| General Steps in Research Design | Singleton et al. (ch. 4) | |
| Second Week | Sampling | Singleton et al. (ch. 6) Williams & Monge (ch. 5) |
| Issues of Measurement | Singleton et al. (ch. 5) Williams & Monge (ch. 3) |
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| Descriptive Statistics | Williams & Monge (ch. 4) | |
| Third Week | Overview of Quantitative Research Methods | Singleton et al (ch. 9) |
| Survey Research | Singleton et al. (ch.10) | |
| Hypothesis Testing | Williams & Monge (ch. 6) | |
| Fourth Week | Statistics Commonly used with Survey Research | |
| Item analysis | ||
| Factor analysis | Williams & Monge (ch. 14) | |
| Fifth Week | Correlation | Williams & Monge (ch. 11) |
| Regression | Williams & Monge (ch. 12 & 13) | |
| Monday, Feb. 13th | Mid-Term Exam (Actually First Part of Week Six) | |
| Sixth Week | Content Analysis | |
| Statistics Commonly Used with Content Analysis | Williams & Monge (ch. 10) | |
| Inter-Coder Reliability (Scott’s Pi), Chi-Square | ||
| Seventh Week | Purpose and Logic of Experimental Designs, Experimental Designs | Singleton et al. (ch. 7) |
| Factorial Designs | Singleton et al. (ch. 8) | |
| Statistics commonly used to identify group differences, z-tests, | ||
| Eight Week | t-tests | Williams & Monge (ch. 7) |
| Anova (F-tests) | Williams & Monge (ch. 8) | |
| Post Hoc Comparisons | ||
| Ninth Week | Research Ethics | Singleton et al. (ch. 17) |
| Writing Research Reports | Singleton et al. (ch. 18) | |
| Tenth Week | Summary and Review | |
| Final Exam | Monday, March 13th 5:45 to 8:00pm |