Wednesday, August 27
Introduction to the Practicum/ Review of Ethics
Read: Baker Chpt. 14
Assignment: NIH Certification

Monday, September 1
The Quasi-Experimental Design
Read: Baker Chpt. 6; Sweet and Grace-Martin Chpt. 1

Wednesday, September 3
The Questionnaire: Design and Process
Guest Speaker: Dr. Stephen Lawyer
Read Baker Chpt. 7

Monday, September 8
Research Skills
Meet at the Library

Wednesday, September 10
How to Write a Literature Review

Monday, September 15
Using SPSS: The Layout of SPSS
Read: Sweet & Grace-Martin Chpt. 2

Wednesday, September 17
Using SPSS: Types of Variables and Levels of Measurement
Read: Sweet & Grace-Martin Chpt. 2; Baker Chpt 4., pp. 117-125
Quiz 1

Monday, September 22
Using SPSS: Describing Your Data
Sweet & Grace-Martin Chpt 3; Baker chpt 13 pp. 361-376

Wednesday, September 24
Test One

Monday, September 29
Using SPSS: Recoding to Create New Variables
Sweet & Grace-Martin Chpt. 4

Wednesday, October 1
Drug-Facilitated Rape
Assignment: Project Questionnaire
Quiz 2

Monday, October 6
Creating the Data: Process and Procedures
Guest Speaker: Bobby Ley

Wednesday, October 8
Using SPSS: Creating Indexes and Scales
Sweet & Grace-Martin Chpt 4; Baker Chpt. 4, pp.126-131

Monday, October 13
Statistics: Assessing Association Through Bivariate Analysis
Sweet & Grace-Martin Chpt. 5; Baker Chpt. 13 (pp. 399-408)
Quiz 3

Wednesday, October 15
Statistics: Comparing Groups with Bivariate Analysis
Sweet & Grace-Martin Chpt. 6
Quiz 4

Monday, October 20
Fall Break

Wednesday, October 22
The Role of the Lab Assistant
Literature Review Due
Activity: Start Data Collection

Monday, October 27
Multivariate Analysis: Linear Regression
Reading: Sweet & Grace-Martin Chpt. 7 and Baker chpt. 13 (pp. 408-423)
Data Collection

Wednesday, October 29
Multivariate Analysis: Linear Regression, cont.
Reading: Sweet & Grace-Martin Chpt. 7
Data Collection

Monday, November 3
More Multivariate Analysis

Wednesday, November 5

Monday, November 10
Writing Testable Hypotheses

Wednesday, November 12
Testing Hypotheses with Appropriate Statistical Procedures
Quiz 5

Monday, November 17
Analysis of your data due

Wednesday, November 19
Test 2

Monday, November 24
Writing The Research Report

Wednesday, November 26
Thanksgiving Break

Monday, December 1
Project Work

Wednesday, December 3
Peer editing

Monday, December 8
Last Day