Course Schedule (Revised 3/11/02)

*Note:  While it is not assigned for a particular day, you are responsible for the material on the Plagiarism Handouts and in the APA Manual. 

 

DATE                                      READINGS DUE                                                        ASSIGNMENTS DUE                                   

M      1/7                          

W                                Chpt. 1 (Intro), Chpt. 2 (Developing Ideas), Section 8-11 Handouts                            

TH                                SPSS Chpt. 1    (In-class) SPSS

M      1/14                                                                                                                         Popular press article

W                                Chpt. 3 (Ethics) & Middlemist & SPSP Email discussion

TH                               APA Manual p. 7-2;   (In class) Method & Result                               

M     1/21                     Campus Survey Readings (Kamins, et al., Wolfe & Crocker, Harackiewicz et al.)  Click for reading guide...

W                                QUIZ #1 (CHPT 1, 2, 3); Chpt. 4 (Measures)   

TH                               APA Manual: Chapter 2, Writing Intro & Method; Library visit

M     1/28                                                                                                                  

W                               Chpt. 5 (Reliability & Validity)                                                     Library assignment

TH                              QUIZ #2 (CHPT 4 & 5); Survey data analysis

M      2/4                    Chpt. 7 (Naturalistic Methodologies)                                           Introduction Development

W                              Chpt. 6 (Surveys & sampling), Appendix B thru p. 332            

TH                             Archival Designs                                                                                                  

M      2/11                                                                                                                       

W                               QUIZ #3 (CHPT 7 & 6); Chapter 8 (Hyp. Testing), Appendix B (p. 332-end),             

                                   Stats Chapters in Howell (pp. 64- 95), www.sc.edu/~west/javahtml/CLT.html

TH                              (In-class) Descriptives                                                                                                          

M    2/18                                                                                                                          Intro & Method for Survey Paper  

W

TH                               Writing Results & Discussion                                                                                                                   

WINTER BREAK   

M    3/4                                                                                                                        

W                                 Ch. 9 (Correlation), App. C thru p. 347, App. D thru p. 359                  Inferential Stats 

                                    https://www.uiuc.edu/~stat100/java/GCApplet/GCAppletFrame.html      

TH                                 Correlations                                                                          Final Grp Project Proposal

M     3/11                      QUIZ #4 (Hypothesis testing)                             

W                                 Chpt. 10 (One-way design) & pp. 262-263, pp. 239-240  

TH                                One-Way ANOVA: (In-class) Method & Result                           Results & Discussion for Survey Paper

M     3/18                      Chpt. 11 (Factorial), Appendix C (p. 347-end), Appendix D (pp. 360-363), SPSS book                                                               

W                               

TH                                (In-class) Complex Designs                                  

M     3/25                      QUIZ #5 (Chpt. 9, 10, 11); Chpt. 12 (Internal Validity)

W                                  Ellsworth reading;   Chpt. 13 (External Validity), Aronson reading                   

TH                                 Statistics In Use & Group Project Data Entry                                       Final Survey Paper

M      4/1                     Chapter 14 (Quasi-Exp.) &  “Movies as Equipment for Living”                                                                                                  

W                                QUIZ #6  (Chpt 12,13, 14)

TH                               Group Project  work time    

M      4/8                      NO CLASS - time for group project work

                    [[Tuesday - Poster Session]]

W                                FINAL CLASS MEETING 

 

                                Tuesday, April 9 2:00-5:00      POSTERS & PRESENTATION SESSION!!!

 

FINAL CUMULATIVE EXAM ON ASSIGNED DAY IN FINALS WEEK