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IDS 302 (section A) Research Methods II: Data Analysis
Miyazaki International College
Fall 2000
Course Outline
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Time and Location: Monday 1:10 - 3:00 pm and Wednesday 1:10 - 2:00pm in MIC1-421 (computer sessions in CCR-2)
Instructor: Cindy Lahar
Office: MIC1-413
Phone: ext. 738
Email: clahar@miyazaki-mic.ac.jp
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Distribution of Credit*:
30% Attendance, in class projects, and computer work
50% Projects, homework, papers, presentations, journals and other written work
10% Tests and quizzes
10% Watch and Reports
*A failure for the final course grade may be assigned to any student who fails to attend six or more of the class sessions.
Learning Goals:
Upon completion of this course students should be able to:
1. Explain the general nature of science and its purposes.
2. Compare and contrast experimental and nonexperimental research in science.
3. Describe and identify types of data, or scores, or measurements as reflecting nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio measurement.
4. Calculate and explain ways of organizing and summarizing data or scores using:
a) descriptive statistics including the mean, mode, median, standard deviation and variance
b) correlation coefficients to describe the relationship between two sets of scores
c) graphic presentations including scattergrams, histograms, line graphs, bar
graphs and circle graphs.
5. Explain the general concept of reliability as well as specific types of reliability and ways by which these are measured.
6. Explain the general concept of validity as well as specific types of validity and ways by which these can be assessed.
7. Outline the general problem of experimental design using the concepts of independent variable, dependent variable and control groups.
8. Differentiate between the concepts of causation and correlation.
9. Explain the general process of drawing inferences from data, including the concepts of a) probability b) random selection c) random assignment
d) parametric versus nonparametric statistics e) hypothesis testing and
f) theory-building.
10. Identify and describe the component parts of a research publication and write a research paper using American Psychological Association Style.
11. Use a Macintosh computer to run a simple experiment and to calculate selected statistics and interpret the output.
Schedule of Topics IDS302 - Fall 2000
Introduction to Research Methods
What is Science?
Descriptive Statistics
Introduction to Statistics
Basic Concepts in Statistics
Displaying Data
Measures of Central Tendency
Measures of Variability
Quiz #1-
Variables used in Experimentation
Scales of Measurement
Examining Relationships
Correlation
Quiz #2-
The Normal Distribution
Probability Theory
Hypothesis testing - Introduction
Sampling Distributions and Hypothesis Testing
Comparing two samples:
Two-related samples
Two independent samples
Choosing the appropriate analysis
Final Presentations
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