| Date | Topics | Readings | Assignments Due |
|---|
| 10 Sep |
Introduction, Statistics Review |
Chs 1,3 |
Begin forming your groups |
| 17 Sep |
Power Analysis: Effect Size, Sample Size, Significance, and Power |
Ch 2 | |
| 24 Sep |
Data Exploration: cleaning, missing data, outliers, assumptions of parametricity |
Chs 4,5 |
HW Assignment 1 due: Stats Review |
| 1 Oct |
Regression: OLS (Ordinary Least-Squares) Simple Regression |
Ch 6, §7.1-7.5 |
Project dataset description due |
| 8 Oct |
Regression: Hierarchical Multiple Regression |
§7.6-7.11 |
Last day for project proposal meeting |
| 15 Oct |
Mediator and Moderator Effects |
|
REB (ethics) form due |
| 22 Oct |
ANOVA and ANCOVA
(special guest announcement for CPA convention!) |
Chs 9-11 |
|
| 29 Oct |
ANOVA: Factorial and Repeated-measures |
Chs 12-13 |
HW Assignment 2 due: Hierarchical Regression |
| 5 Nov |
Mixed-Design ANOVA; Reading journal articles |
Ch 14 |
|
| 12 Nov |
(Fall reading break, no class) |
| 19 Nov |
Meta Analysis and Generalized Linear Models
Guest lecture by Kafui:
"Using the Critical Incident Technique (CIT) in Program Implementation Research" |
Ch 18 |
HW Assignment 3 due: Mixed-design ANOVA |
| 26 Nov |
Reading journal articles; Logistic and Log-linear |
Ch 8, 18 |
Read
Myers&Hayes06 and
Horowitz07 and
come prepared to discuss
review questions |
| 3 Dec |
Factor Analysis, Canonical Correlation, and Structural Equation Modelling
(and MANOVA, time permitting) |
Ch 17 |
HW Assignment 4 due: Meta-Analysis |
| 10 Dec |
(no class) |
| Sat 18 Dec |
(no class) |
| Final project manuscript due (12 noon) |