Psyc 612 001 Advanced Statistics and Research Methods in Psychology II
Course Syllabus - Spring 2001
Dr. Adam Winsler
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Instructor: Adam Winsler, Ph.D. Office: 2011 David King Hall
Phone: (703) 993-1881 Office Hours: Tues 11-12, Thurs 2-3, + by appt.
Email: awinsler@gmu.edu Winsler URL: http://classweb.gmu.edu/classweb/awinsler
Course Schedule T R 3:00 -4:15pm Location: Science & Tech. 1 Rm. 131
Credit Hours: 4
Graduate Teaching Assistants (Lab Instructors)
Kara Incalcaterra Karin Orvis Louis Manfra
Lab Section 612 205 Lab Section 612 211 Lab Section 612 209
Friday 8:30-10:20 Thurs 5:00-6:50 Thurs 5:00-6:50
DK 1005 **Thompson 222** DK 1005
Lab Section 612 206 Lab Section 612 207 Lab Section 612 210
Friday 10:30-12:20 Friday 12:30-2:20 Thurs 7:00-8:50
DK 1005 DK 1005 DK 1005
Office Hours: Office Hours: Office Hours:
Tues 2-3 Thurs 2-3 Wed 1-2
Robinson B211 Robinson B213 DK 2057
(703) 993-3706 x1 (703) 993-3706 x4 (703) 993-4050
kincalca@gmu.edu korvis1@gmu.edu lmanfrai@gmu.edu
Course Description & Goals
This course is designed to a) sensitively initiate students into the authentic activities that make up the culture of applied data analysis in psychology, and b) to increase students knowledge and skills as consumers of research and statistics. No matter what students' career tracks are, they will almost certainly be called upon at some point to either understand the findings of research to improve applied practice, analyze a set of data either for local institutional purposes or for academic publication purposes, conduct an empirical investigation, or evaluate a program of research or service. So the goal of this course is to help prepare students for these tasks. As everyone always says, the best way to learn statistics is by doing them, so we will be "doing them" as authentically as possible with the same, processes, tools, and procedures that are used in the field. Through a combination of lecture, discussion, presentation, projects, homeworks, and other activities, we will significantly increase (p < .05) student knowledge and skill with regard to research methods and statistics, and inform students what else there is that they might want to learn in this area and where to go to learn it.
Required Reading
1) Howell, D. C. (1997). Statistical methods for psychology (4th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
2) Kerlinger, F. N., & Lee, H. B. (2000). Foundations of behavioral research (4th ed.). Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt.
Optional/Recommended Reading
2) Carver, R.H., & Nash, J.G. (2000). Doing data analysis with SPSS 10.0. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.
Course Requirements/Assignments/Activities
Students will select one of the large scale SPSS datasets that we have acquired for use for their project. If a student has access to an alternative, large scale, (i.e., > 100 variables, > 200 cases), and appropriate data set that s/he wishes to use for this project, this might be OK but would have to be seen and approved by the instructor by the third week of class. It is expected that multiple individual meetings between students and the instructor and/or TAs will be needed in order to complete the assignment well. The project is divided into the following meaningful chunks and turned in cumulatively along the way (and returned with feedback) as follows. Each phase turned in will also include the previous phase (revised as appropriate).
Phase I - Specification of the data set to be used, list and definition of relevant variables, description of study design, and brief introduction to the area of study.
This will consist of a 1-4 page written description of the above and a detailed, codebook/table of all of the variables in the data set that you are interested in exploring (NOT all of the variables in the dataset), including their names, meaning, and nature (i.e., type of data [categorical, continuous], range, and coding definitions [1=male, 2=female, etc]). Phase 1 is due at the beginning of lecture on Tuesday, Feb 6. This first phase (only) may be done collaboratively with one other student.
Phase II - Research Questions and/or Hypotheses and Data Analysis Plan.
Students will list their specific research questions and/or hypotheses to be answered/tested in a hierarchical numerical-bulleted fashion. Students should include at least some hypotheses if they list predominately questions. There should be about 7-15 questions/hypotheses. Organized by the students list of questions/hypotheses, students will also give a very specific, detailed description of how they are going to go about testing each of the questions/hypotheses (variables used, statistical procedure used, specification of which variables are serving as what in each analysis ). If the method of analysis for one question depends on what happens in a previous analysis, then give contingency plans. Due at the beginning of lecture on Tuesday, Feb 27.
Students can pick whatever questions they are interested in pursuing with the chosen data set, with the only constraint being that the procedures used to answer the questions have to be a good representative sample of the many procedures discussed in 611 and 612 this year. Obviously, the procedure used in each case will depend on the type of data and the research question. So the general idea is to do as many of the following different procedures as is reasonably possible:
One-sample t-test, independent samples t-test, correlated samples t-test, one-way ANOVA, factorial ANOVA, ANCOVA, MANOVA, MANCOVA, Factor analysis, simple regression, multiple regression, Kruskal-Wallis, Mann-Whitney, Wilcoxon signed-rank, Friedman, chi-square, internal consistency reliability, various types of correlations, and RM ANOVA. Interested students are welcome to do other more advanced analyses as well, such as loglinear models, logistic regression, discriminant function analysis, cluster analysis, other?, but only if desired.
Minimum requirements are, however: at least 1 of each of the following: any type of t-test, ANOVA, nonparametric analysis, chi-square, correlation, regression, and 1 multivariate procedure (MR or MANOVA).
Phase III - Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
Annotated output and written description of your exploratory and preliminary analysis procedures, including data cleaning, transformations, data reduction, distributional graphs, missing data, outlier analysis, and recoding procedures as necessary. Also include a description in the text of how the results of the EDA affect your data analysis strategy. Due at the beginning of lecture on Tuesday, March 20.
Phase IV - Final Report
An APA style research report of the results of your analyses, complete with a brief introduction to the topic, a brief method and procedures section, a much-expanded results section (in which you describe what exactly was done, and why, what was found, and what it means), a brief discussion section/executive summary, and lots of organized appendices referring to the relevant SPSS output. Due at the beginning of lecture on Thursday, April 26.
2) Online Discussion.
We will be using WebCT to facilitate our discourse both inside and outside of class this semester. Students are encouraged to post questions, issues, problems, suggestions, whatever, as often as they like throughout the semester. This open ended, unmoderated, online discussion can be used to discuss the readings and course content, ask questions about things that were unclear in class or in the readings, find a partner for collaborative assignments, or discuss questions/issues that come up. Participation in the online discussion is completely voluntary, however, each reasonable, substantive post submitted to the online discussion forum will count as .33 extra credit points on top of your final grade (5 extra credit point maximum, however).3) On-Line Study Guide.
Students are required to write a minimum of 5 multiple choice or true/false quiz/exam items from the material discussed in lectures and submit these items electronically for inclusion in the courses online study guide. (See "Online Course Materials and Tools" below). Items must be original, creative, and of high quality in order to count. The correct answer must also be submitted with the item. Students will only get credit for one test item per week and the item has to come from material covered in lectures (not material that appeared only in the textbook or elsewhere) within the same week of the item submission (i.e., items are submitted from Tuesday to Sunday of each week and they have to come from that weeks content). Items submitted are first reviewed privately by Dr. Winsler, and acceptable ones will become part of the on-line study guide forum available to all students. Students will receive one point for each acceptable item that appears in the online study guide. Items not acceptable will be returned privately to the student with feedback given. One (particularly good) item submitted by a student each week will be selected as a question that will definitely appear on the next quiz. A good number of other student-submitted items will also appear on quizzes.Students are encouraged to submit as many additional items as they want since it is a good learning experience and all students benefit by studying via the on-line study guide. Students can earn up to 5 final exam extra credit points (1 point for each additional good item submitted) by submitting additional items at any time to the on-line study guide. However, you dont the get XC points until after you have completed your required 5.
4) Quiz
. On March 15 and 16, in lab, students will take a quiz over the content covered to date in the course. The quiz will likely include a variety of item formats, including multiple choice, T/F, could this be true, and short answer.5) Article Review/Critique.
6) Oral Presentation
. On April 19 & 20th, in lab, students will give a brief (5-10 min.) oral presentation to their fellow lab members briefly summarizing the results of their analyses for the data analysis project (above). This will serve three goals: (a) students will get experience with yet another authentic activity within the culture of academic researchers, namely presenting the results of data analysis, (b) students will learn and profit from hearing what other classmates did on their projects, and (c) because of the timing of the presentations, this will be an opportunity for students to get some feedback on how their data analyses are going before they turn in their final project.7) Final Exam.
At the university-scheduled time for the final, Tuesday, May 8 (1:30 4:15pm), students will complete an in class final exam. The exam will likely include a variety of familiar item formats, including multiple choice, T/F, could this be true, and short answer.8) Research Proposal.
Online Course Materials and Tools
Five important online resources are located for students at the new 612 Course Website located at: http://webct.gmu.edu/
Note: This semester, we will be using a newer version of WebCT. Most all features are used the same way, but look better and slightly different. The largest difference is the way in which you log in. In this version, you will log into your own individual MyWebCT account, and from there access the 612 WebCT page. To do this, simply locate the URL above in any browser, click on LOG ON TO MYWEBCT, and enter your mason user account (the first part of your mason email address, e.g. jsmith5) as your login ID, and the last four digits of your social security number as your password. IF YOU ARE NOT ABLE TO ACCESS YOUR MYWEBCT ACCOUNT, THEN YOU ARE NOT IN THE CURRENT REGISTRAR'S DATABASE AS ENROLLED IN ANY CLASSES.
1) Course Materials -
Various course materials (syllabus, lecture notes, lab handouts, assignments, guidelines/grading criteria for assignments ) are/will be available from this site.2) Online Resources for Statistics
We have compiled a variety of excellent web resources for research methods and statistics and listed them on the course website.3) Online discussion -
Discussion of and reflection on course content, inside and outside of class, is critical for sustained student learning and motivation. This semester, students in this course will no longer be limited to the discussion which occurs in the classroom. Using GMUs WebCT platform, students in this course may also participate in electronic discussions in which students type in messages that are stored in a central web location and are accessible for all other students in the course (and the instructor) to read and respond to. (See course requirement # 2 above).4) Online Grade Checking Mechanism -
Students may get an update of their current course grades at any time during the course from the website (24 hours a day, 7 days a week!). Students can see their own grades for all assignments, including extra credit points earned to date. The WebCT password that students will designate on their first day of use provides assurance that others can not access your grades. Students will only see their own grades - not anyone else's and not class distributions. The goal of this service is to give students a mechanism for getting immediate feedback about their progress in the course. It is not intended to increase student anxiety about grades.5) Online Study Guide -
Also available from the website is the online student study guide which contains the student-submitted (and instructor-approved) multiple choice and true/false exam items that can and should be used to study for quizzes and exams (See course requirement # 3 above on submitting exam items, and receiving extra credit for sending additional items).Grading Procedures
The standard 93-100% = A, 90-92 = A-, 87-89% = B+, 83-86 = B, 80-82 = B-, 77-79% = C+, 70-76 = C, 60-69% = D, <60% = F scale will be used. Students' final grades will be determined as follows:
Students DOING research proposal: Students NOT DOING the research proposal :
Project 35% Project 40%
Article Review 5% Article Review 10%
Quiz 10% Quiz 10%
Final Exam 15% Final Exam 15%
Lab Grade 25% Lab Grade 25%
Research Proposal 10%
Accommodation for Students with Disabilities
It is the policy of the University to make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Students who may have special needs because of a physical or learning disability are encouraged to contact Disability Support Services ASAP (234 Student Union I) at 993-3247. Students with disabilities who are in need of accommodation relative to class attendance/arrival, course requirements, or related aspects of course performance and who have already processed the necessary paperwork with Disability Support Services must initiate such a request in writing immediately, and prior to any anticipated need, to the instructor. Such requests will be accommodated within the reasonable constraints of fairness and timeliness with regard to the instructor and the other students enrolled in the course.
Tentative Course Outline
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Date |
Topic(s) |
Reading/Assignment |
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Tues - Jan 16 |
Introduction / Overview of Course / The Big Picture |
WebCT Project Datasets Review 611 Final |
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Thurs - Jan 18 |
Review of Experimental Designs - Laboratory, Field, vs. Natural Experiments - Control, Matching, Randomization - Between vs. Within subjects |
Winsler (1991) K & L - Ch. 18 (Review) K & L - Ch. 19 (Review) K & L - Ch. 20 (Review) Keren (1993) |
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Tues - Jan 23 |
Quasi-Experimental Designs - Applied/Evaluation Research in Community Settings |
K & L - Ch. 22 McCall et al. (1998) |
Managing Project Datasets Review |
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Thurs Jan 25 |
Single-Subject Designs |
K & L - Ch. 23 |
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Tues - Jan 30 |
Nonexperimental/Correlational Research and Field Studies - Naturalistic Observation - Structured Observation - Time vs. Behavior Sampling - Transcribing, Coding |
K & L - Ch. 24 K & L - Ch. 31 |
Observational Activity Assistance w/ Phase I |
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Thurs Feb 1 |
Nonexperimental/Correlational Research and Field Studies - Objective Tests and Simulations - Rating Scales - Sociometrics |
K & L - Ch. 30 K & L - Ch. 31 |
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Tues - Feb 6 |
Survey Research - Interviews - Focus Groups - Questionnaires - Internet Surveys |
K & L - Ch. 25 K & L - Ch. 29 Hinkin (1998) Project Phase I Due |
Obs HW Due Fitting Research Questions w/ Designs Act. (Bring a Hypothetical Res. Question) |
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Thurs - Feb 8 |
Qualitative Research - Participant Observation/Ethnography - Case Studies |
K & L - Ch. 24 (Review) Atkinson & Hammersley (1994) Stake (1994) |
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Tues - Feb 13 |
Reliability and Validity - Revisited |
K & L - Ch. 27 (Review) K & L - Ch. 28 (Review) Mook (1983) Cortina (1993) Messick (1995) |
Calculating Reliabilities Multitrait- Multimethod Matrices |
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Thurs - Feb 15 |
Longitudinal Research - Longitudinal vs. Cross Sectional Designs - Panel Studies, Sequential Designs - Time Series Designs. Microgenetic Designs |
Miller (1998)
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Tues Feb 20 |
So Now What Do We Do? The Big Data Analysis Picture - Univariate vs. Multivariate - Independent vs. Dependent Variables - Categorical vs. Ordinal vs. Bad / Good Continuous Data - Questions?, Goals? (i.e., Mean Diffs, Associations, Prediction, Causality, Mediation, Moderation, Model Fit) |
Howell - Ch. 11 (Review) Howell - Ch. 12 (Review) Howell - Ch. 13 (Review) K & L - Ch 13 (Review) K & L - Ch 14 (Review) Article Review Due |
Assistance w/ Phase II EDA Activity |
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Thurs - Feb 22 |
Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) - Data Cleaning, Recoding, Reduction, Aggregation - Graphing Data |
Smith et al. (1986) Maxwell & Delaney (1993) Behrens (1997) Howell - Ch. 2 (Review) |
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Tues - Feb 27 |
Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) - Missing Data, Outliers, Distributions, Transformations |
Tabachnick & Fidell (1996) Project Phase II Due |
EDA HW Due Calculating Effect Sizes Power Activity |
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Thurs - Mar 1 |
Effect Size - Clinical/Practical Significance - Types of Effect Sizes and Their Calculation |
McCartney & Rosenthal (2000) Cortina & Nouri (2000) |
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Tues - Mar 6-8 |
NO CLASSES SPRING BREAK! |
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Tues - Mar 13 |
Power and the Big 5 - Significance Testing, Effect Size, Power, N, & Meta-Analysis (Intro) |
K & L - Ch. 12 (Review) Howell - Ch. 8 Cohen (1992) Cohen (1994) Nickerson (2000) |
Quiz |
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Thurs - Mar 15 |
Review of Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) |
Howell - Ch. 16 Porter & Raudenbush (1987) |
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Tues - Mar 20 |
Paired Samples T Test Repeated Measures (RM) ANOVA |
Howell - Ch. 7 (Review) Howell - Ch. 14 K & L - Ch. 15 Project Phase III Due |
Power HW Due Go Over Quiz RM ANOVA Activity |
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Thurs - Mar 22 |
Alternatives to RM ANOVA for Longitudinal Data - Measures of Stability and Change - Change/Difference Scores - Individual Growth Curves |
Games (1990) Francis et al. (1991) |
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Tues - Mar 27 |
Nonparametric Analyses - Sign, Wilcoxon/Mann-Whitney, Wilcoxon Signed Rank, Kruskal-Wallis, Friedman |
Howell - Ch. 18 K & L - Ch. 16 |
NonParametrics
c 2 Activity |
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Thurs - Mar 29 |
Analysis of Categorical/Count Data - One-way c 2- Two-way c 2 |
Howell - Ch. 6 K & L - Ch. 10 |
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Tues April 3 |
Analysis of Categorical/Count Data - Odds Ratios - Intro to Log-Linear Models and Logistic Regression |
Von Eye & Schuster (2000) |
c 2 HW Due Factor Analysis (FA) |
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Thurs - April 5 |
Introduction to the Multivariate World Factor Analysis |
K & L - Ch. 34 Tinsley & Tinsley (1987) |
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Tues - April 10 |
Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) |
Haase & Ellis (1987) |
FA HW Due MANOVA Activity Assistance w/ Project |
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Thurs- April 12 |
Multivariate Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA) Repeated Measures and Mixed MANOVA Models |
Howell - Ch. 9 (Review) Howell - Ch. 15 (Review) K & L - Ch. 32 (Review) |
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Tues - April 17 |
Multiple Regression - Model Basics, Assumptions, Diagnostics |
Wampold & Freund (1987) Stevens (1984) |
Presentations MANOVA HW Due |
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Thurs- April 19 |
Multiple Regression - Moderation, Mediation, Suppression, Multiple Models |
Baron & Kenny (1986) |
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Tues - April 24 |
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Publication Process but Were Afraid To Ask |
Campion (1993) (Review) Jauch & Wall (1989) Wilkinson et al. (1999) |
MR Activity Review (Note - Thur 6-8 Or Fri 11-1) |
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Thurs- April 26 |
Whats Left?: A Look Ahead The Big Data Analysis Picture Revisited |
K & L - Ch. 33 Final Project Due |
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(Research Proposal Due 5/1) |
(Review Session TBA) |
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Tues May 8 |
Final Exam (1:30 4:15pm) |
Article Reading List (Required)
(* = also available on the course website)
1) *Winsler, A. (1991). A Vygotskian/Sociohistorical approach to the teaching of graduate statistics in education and the behavioral sciences. Unpublished manuscript. Stanford University.
2) *Keren, G. (1993). Between- or within-subjects design: A methodological dilemma. In G. Keren & C. Lewis (Eds.), A handbook for data analysis in the behavioral sciences: Methodological issues (pp. 257-272). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
3) *McCall, R., Green, B.L., Strauss, M.S., & Groark, C. (1998). Issues in community-based research and program evaluation. In W. Damon (Ed.) I.E.Sigel & A. Renninger (Vol. Eds.), Handbook of child psychology - 5th Edition - Volume 4: Child psychology in practice (pp. 955-997). New York: Wiley & Sons.
4) Hinkin, T. R. (1998). A brief tutorial on the development of measures for use in survey questionnaires. Organizational Research Methods, 1, 101-121.
5) Atkinson, P., & Hammersley, M. (1994). Ethnography and participant observation. In N.K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of qualitative research (pp. 248-261). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
6) Stake, R.E. (2000). Case studies. In N.K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of qualitative research (pp. 435-454). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
7) Mook, D.G. (1983). In defense of external invalidity. American Psychologist, 38, 379-387.
8) Cortina, J.M. (1993). What is coefficient alpha? An examination of theory and applications. Journal of Applied Psychology, 78, 98-104.
9) Messick, S. (1995). Validity of psychological assessment: Validation of inferences from persons responses and performances as scientific inquiry into score meaning. American Psychologist, 50, 741-749.
10) Miller, S. (1998). Developmental research methods (2nd ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. (Chapter 3 - "Design").
11) Smith, P.C., Budzeika, K.A., Edwards, N.A., Johnson, S.M., & Bearse, L.N. (1986). Guidelines for clean data: Detection of common mistakes. Journal of Applied Psychology, 71, 457-460.
12) Maxwell, S.E., & Delaney, H.D. (1993). Bivariate median splits and spurious statistical significance. Psychological Bulletin, 113, 181-190.
13) Behrens, J. T. (1997). Principles and procedures of exploratory data analysis. Psychological Methods, 2, 131-160.
14) Tabachnick, B.G., & Fidell, L.S. (1996). Using multivariate statistics (3rd ed.). New York: Harper Collins. (Chapter 4- "Cleaning up your act: Screening data prior to analysis")
15) McCartney, K., & Rosenthal, R. (2000). Effect size, practical importance, and social policy for children. Child Development, 71, 173-180.
16) Cortina, J., & Nouri, H. (2000). Effect size for ANOVA designs. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
17) Cohen, J. (1992). A power primer. Psychological Bulletin, 112, 155-159.
18) Cohen, J. (1994). The Earth is round (p < .05). American Psychologist, 49, 997-1003.
19) Nickerson, R.S. (2000). Null hypothesis significance testing: A review of an old and continuing controversy. Psychological Methods, 5, 241-301.
20) Porter, A. C., & Raudenbush, S. W. (1987). Analysis of covariance: Its model and use in psychological research. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 34, 383-392.
21) Games, P.A. (1990). Alternative analyses of repeated-measure designs by ANOVA and MANOVA. In A. Von Eye (Ed.), Statistical methods in longitudinal research Vol. 1: Principles and structuring change (pp. 81-121). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
22) Francis, D.J., Fletcher, J.M., Stuebing, K.K., Davidson, K.C., & Thompson, N.M. (1991). Analysis of change: Modeling individual growth. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 59, 27-37.
23) Von Eye, A., & Schuster, C. (2000). The odds of resilience. Child Development, 71, 563-566.
24) Tinsley, H.E.A., & Tinsley, D.J. (1987). Uses of factor analysis in counseling psychology research. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 34, 414-424.
25) Haase, R. F., & Ellis, M. V. (1987). Multivariate analysis of variance. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 34, 404-413.
26) Wampold, B.E., & Freund R.D. (1987). Use of multiple regression in counseling psychology; A flexible research strategy. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 34, 372-382.
27) Stevens, J. P. (1984). Outliers and influential data points in regression analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 95, 334-344.
28) Baron, R.M., & Kenny, D.A. (1986). The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51, 1173-1182.
29) Campion, M.A. (1993). Article review checklist: A criterion checklist for reviewing research articles in applied psychology. Personnel Psychology, 46, 705-718.
30) Jauch, L.R., & Wall, J. (1989). What they do when they get your manuscript: A survey of Academy of Management reviewer practices. Academy of Management Journal, 32, 157-173.
31) Wilkinson, L., & the Task Force on Statistical Inference. (1999). Statistical methods in psychology journals. American Psychologist, 54, 594-604.
The Honor Code
Students in this course are expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the GMU Honor Code. The Honor Code (pp. 24 of the GMU University Catalog and
http://www.gmu.edu/facstaff/handbook/aD.html provides good definitions of lying, stealing, cheating, and plagiarism. For purposes of clarity, the following guidelines for plagiarism will be used in this course for the writing of the paper:Plagiarism =
Copying, word for word, greater than about 25% of a sentence from someone else's work and having the words appear to be your own words. [Note: This is regardless of 1) the type of other person's work (whether or not it was published) and 2) whether or not you have given the person a citation after the text or a reference in the bibliography].
Using greater than 25% of the words in someone else's sentence by switching around the order of words or phrases and having the words appear to be your own words (same notes apply, as above).
Paraphrasing someone else's ideas or findings or sentences without giving them a citation and reference.
Using the same paper for this course which has been (or will be) turned in for another course.
Students are encouraged to collaborate and study together as much as possible throughout the course. For the project, students can assist each other in the form of defining and narrowing down the data set, discussing the assignment, proofreading drafts, and doing analyses together, but the student whose name appears on Phase 2-4 of the project must be the author, and the research questiions asked, analyses performed, and interpretation given need to be individual. For collaborative papers and article review, both students must contribute equally to the project, including relatively equal contributions to the actual writing. Violations of the Honor Code will not be tolerated in this course and will be immediately reported according to GMU procedures.
A Few Notes About the Labs
Lab grades will consist of the following:
Homeworks 50%
Oral Presentation 20%
In-Class Lab Activities
/ Participation / Attendance 25%
Item Submission 5%
Lab Activities/Participation and Lab Switching In order to receive credit for the lab activity/participation on a given week, students must attend their own scheduled/registered lab. Switching labs without prior approval and arrangements made with both lab instructors, will result in the student not receiving credit for attending/ participating in that weeks lab. If you have an urgent need to switch labs, email your lab instructor and the lab instructor whose lab you would like to attend with your reason and await approval.
Collaboration If desired, students may collaborate with a maximum of one other student (from the same lab section) on any and all in-class lab activities and lab homeworks. With this option, students turn in one copy of their work with both names. Partners are renegotiated for each week/assignment (i.e., working together once with one person doesnt mean that you have to team up this way each time).
Late Policy No late work will be accepted. All homework will be due on the dates clearly listed on the syllabus. All in-class lab activities will be due at the end of the lab session. Students with truly exceptional circumstances may request but are not guaranteed exceptions to this policy. (NOTE The same policy holds for assignments in the lecture [article review, project phases ])
Redo Policy Due to the nature of the assignments this semester, re-doing work for additional points will not be an option this semester. All grades will be based on what was originally turned in.
Word Processing All work that is done outside of lab and turned in must be typed/word processed (except for the rare instance of hand calculations even with these, however, the interpretation part of assignment must be typed). Five points will be deducted from work turned in that is not typed. Work done (and turned in the same day) in-class/lab may be hand written.
Supplies. Due to the fact that students will be working extensively with a large database in SPSS, it is strongly recommended that they obtain a ZIP disk on which to save work this semester. Also, bring your course notes and text books/readings to lab each week.
PSYC 612 - Spring 2001 - Student Information
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Name ___________________________________________
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Program/Year __________________________________________
Phone Number(s) ___________________________________________
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Primary Email Address ___________________________________________
GMU (Mason) Username ___________________________________________
(i.e., awinsler)
Previous (Pre PSYC 611) Statistics Coursework Taken:
Course Taken _______________________ Year ___________ Grad / Undergrad
Course Taken _______________________ Year ___________ Grad / Undergrad
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Course Taken _______________________ Year ___________ Grad / Undergrad
Winslers Psyc 612 Resource/Reference List
(* = Required reading for this course)
The Scientific Method
Klahr, D., & Simon, H.A. (1999). Studies of scientific discovery: Complementary approaches and convergent findings. Psychological Bulletin, 125, 524-543.
McCall, M.W., & Bobko, P. (1990). Research methods in the service of discovery. In M.D. Dunnette & L.M. Hough (Eds.), Handbook of industrial and organizational psychology (2nd ed.) (Vol. 1) (pp. 381-418). Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press.
McGuire, W. J. (1997). Creative hypothesis generating in psychology: Some useful heuristics. Annual
Review of Psychology, 48, 1-30.
Phillips, D.C. (1987). Philosophy, science, and social policy: Contemporary methodological controversies in social science and related applied fields of research. Elmsford, NY: Pergammon.
Ethics
American Psychological Association. (1992). Ethical principles of psychologists. American Psychologist, 47, 1597-1611.
Cooper, H., DeNeve, K., & Charlton, K. (1997). Finding the missing science: The fate of studies submitted for review by a human subjects committee. Psychological Methods, 2, 447-452.
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Student issues
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Experimental Designs
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Quasi-Experimental Designs
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Single Subject Designs
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Survey Research, Scale Construction
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Qualitative Methodology
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Longitudinal Research, Measuring Change Over Time, Change/Difference Scores
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Reliability
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Validity
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Power
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Effect Size, Practical Significance, Hypothesis Testing
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Exploratory Data Analysis, Data Screening, Outliers, Data Reduction, Missing Data, Graphs
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ANCOVA
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Repeated Measures ANOVA
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Nonparametric Analyses
Cliff, N. (1993). Dominance statistics: ordinal analyses to answer ordinal questions. Psychological Bulletin, 114, 494-509.
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Categorical Data
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Factor Analysis
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MANOVA
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Multiple Regression
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Discriminant Analysis
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Cluster Analysis
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Meta-Analysis
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Hedges,L.V. (1987), How hard is hard science, How soft is soft science. American Psychologist, 42, 443-455.
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Carlberg, C. G., Kulik, C. C., Kulik, J. A., Johnson, D. W., Johnson, R. Maruyama, G., Kavale, K., Lysakowski, R. S., Pflaum, S. W., & Walberg, H. J. (1984). Meta-analysis in education: A reply to Slavin. Educational Researcher, 13, 16-23.
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Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)
Anderson, J.C. & Gerbing, D.W. (1988). Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach. Psychological Bulletin, 103, 411-423.
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MacCallum., R.C., & Austin, J.T. (2000). Applications of structural equation modeling in psychological research. Annual Review of Psychology, 51, 201-226.
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The Publication Process
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Levels of Analysis
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General
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