Editing Quantitative Methods for Communication (Spring 2022) (section)

= Schedule =

'''NOTE'''  This section may be modified throughout the course to meet the class's needs. Check back in weekly.


== Week 1: Variables, Research Questions, and Hypotheses ==

==== January 11 ====

'''Assignment Due:''' 
* [[/Discord Signup|Sign up for Discord]] and introduce yourself
* Take [https://forms.gle/Ak9GYuFGer89k6G47 this very brief survey]

'''Required Readings:''' 
* Five Big Words (on Brightspace)

'''Concepts:'''
* Class overview and expectations — We'll walk through this syllabus.
* Goals of Quantitative Research


==== January 13 ====

'''Assignment Due:''' 
* Read the entire syllabus (this document)

'''Readings (on Brightspace):''' 
* Variables in non-experimental studies
* Conceptualizing
* Writing RQs

'''Concepts:'''
* Constructs
* Hypotheses
* Research Questions
* Independent/Dependent Variables

==== January 14 ====

'''Lab 1: Intro to SPSS'''

== Week 2: Surveys ==

==== January 18 ====

'''Readings (before class):''' 
* Scales of Measurement

'''Concepts:'''
* Scales


====January 20====

'''Readings (before class):''' 
* How to improve online survey response rates; 
* Survey questions 101: do you make any of these 7 question-writing mistakes?

'''Concepts:'''
* Selection effects


* Survey Project Assigned

====January 21====

'''Lab 2: Entering and Modifying Data in SPSS'''

'''Assignment Due:'''
* Lab 1: Intro to SPSS
* Completed Homework Survey

== Week 3: Descriptive Statistics ==


====January 25====

'''Readings (before class):''' 
* Salkind Chapter 2
* Salkind Chapter 4

'''Concepts:'''
* Distributions
* Mean
* Median
* Mode

====January 27====


'''Readings (before class):''' 
* Salkind Chapter 3
* Interquartile Range
* SD and normal curve

'''Concepts:'''

====January 28====

'''Lab 3: Modifying data in SPSS'''

'''Assignment Due:'''
* Lab 2
* SPSS Homework Survey Data File

== Week 4: Z-scores and correlation ==

====February 1====

'''Assignment Due:'''
* SURVEY PROJECT QUESTIONS DUE in Lecture

'''Readings (before class):''' 
* Salkind Ch. 8 pp. 149-165
* Standard scores and the normal curve

'''Concepts:'''
* Standardization
* Z-scores

====February 3====

'''Readings (before class):''' 
* Salkind Chapter 5

'''Concepts:'''
* Correlation
* r

====February 4====

'''Lab 4: Descriptive Stats and z scores'''

'''Assignment Due:'''
* Lab 3

== Week 5: Reliability and Validity ==

====February 8====

'''Readings (before class):''' 
* Salkind Chapter 6
* Reliability and its relationship to Validity

'''Concepts:'''
* Validity
* Generalizability
* Replication

====February 10====

'''Readings (before class):''' 
* Sampling

'''Concepts:'''

====February 11====

'''Lab 5: Scatterplots and correlation'''

'''Assignment Due:'''
* Lab 4


== Week 6: Sampling (cont'd) ==

====February 15====

'''Assignment Due:'''
* Survey project

'''Readings (before class):''' 
* Sampling distribution
* Sampling error

'''Concepts:'''


====February 17====

'''Review for Midterm'''


====February 18====

'''Lab 6: Reliability and Cronbach's alpha'''

'''Assignment Due:'''
* Lab 5


== Week 7: Experimental Design ==


====February 22====

'''MIDTERM EXAM'''


====February 24====

'''Readings (before class):''' 


'''Concepts:'''

====February 25====

'''Lab 7: Review for SPSS Quiz 1'''

== Week 8: Causality  ==

==== March 1 ====

Final Project Assigned

'''Readings (before class):''' 
* Cialdini EPH Experiment (pp. 599-601)
* True Experimental Designs


'''Concepts:'''
* "True" experiments
* 

====March 3====

'''Readings (before class):''' 
* Establishing Cause and Effect
* Internal Validity
* External Validity

'''Concepts:'''

====March 4====

'''Lab 8: SPSS Quiz 1'''


== Week 9: Central Limit Theorem and standard errors ==

====March 8====

'''Readings (before class):''' 
* Salkind Ch. 9, pp. 186-187
* Probability and Normal Curve & Standard Error of Mean (same PDF)

'''Concepts:'''

====March 10====

'''Readings (before class):''' 
* Salkind Chapter 9 pp. 192-194
* Confidence interval for the mean

'''Concepts:'''


====March 11====

'''Lab 9: Final Project Data Collection'''

====SPRING BREAK MARCH 14-18====

== Week 10: Testing hypotheses ==

====March 22====

'''Readings (before class):''' 
* Salkind Chapter 7
* Salkind Chapter 9 pp. 188-192
* Salkind Chapter 10

'''Concepts:'''
* The null hypothesis
* Hypothesis testing
* Statistical significance
* One sample z-test


====March 24====

'''Readings (before class):''' 
* Chapter 17
* Computation of Two-way Chi-Square

'''Concepts:'''
* Chi-squared tests



====March 25====

'''Lab 10: Survey Analysis Project: Data Entry'''

'''Assignment Due:'''
* Final Project data must be gathered

== Week 11: Significance tests ==

====March 29====

'''Readings (before class):''' 
* Cramer’s Phi

'''Concepts:'''
* Chi-Square: Effect Size

====March 31====

'''Readings (before class):''' 
* Salkind Chapter 15

'''Concepts:'''
* Testing ''r'' for statistical significance

==== April 1 ====

'''Lab 11: Two-way Chi-squared'''

'''Assignment Due:'''
* Lab 10

== Week 12: t-tests ==

====April 5====

'''Readings (before class):''' 
* Salkind Chapter 11

'''Concepts:'''
* t-tests for independent groups

====April 7====

'''Readings (before class):''' 
* Introduction to Effect Size

'''Concepts:'''
* Cohen's ''d''

====April 8====

'''Lab 12: t-test and Pearson's r'''

'''Assignment Due:'''
* Lab 11


== Week 13: Errors and Ethics ==

====April 12====

'''Readings (before class):''' 

* Salkind Chapter 9, pp. 177-186

'''Concepts:'''
* Type I and Type II errors
* Statistical power

====April 14====

Final project review + Q&A

====April 15====

'''No Lab: Workday for Final Project'''

'''Assignment Due:'''
* Lab 12

== Week 14 ==

====April 19====

Review for SPSS Quiz 2

====April 21====

Open Topic: Buffer Day / Out-of-class workday

====April 22====

'''SPSS Quiz 2'''

== Week 15 ==



====April 26====

Out-of-class work day for final project

====April 28====

Review for Final exam

'''Assignment Due:'''
* '''Final Project'''

====April 29====

'''No Lab'''

== Week 16: Final Exam ==

May 5, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm