James Murray

Course Information

Instructor:
James Murray, Ph.D.
Office: 403T Wimberly Hall
Office hours: 2:00pm-4:00pm Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Phone: 608-406-4068
E-mail: jmurray@uwlax.edu

Syllabus (PDF)
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Poll Everywhere Questions

Practice Exams

Practice Exam #1
Practice Exam #2

Module 8: Data Visualization and Presentation

Data Visualization: Slides, Printer Friendly Version, Dataset: cars.xls.

Death by PowerPoint, by Alexei Kapterev, Offshore Presentation Design and Consulting.

Final Project Presentation Guidelines

Module 7: Review of Introductory Statistics

Univariate and Bivariate Statistics: Slides, Printer Friendly Version
SPSS Handout. Datasets: eduspending.sav, econoutlook.sav, gradeschool.sav.

Indentifying Relationships/Co-movements between variables: Slides, Printer Friendly Version
SPSS Handout. Datasets: hotel.sav, publicexp.sav.

Module 6: Sampling Design

Class notes: Slides, Printer Friendly Version

Module 5: Questionnaire Design

Class notes: Slides, Printer Friendly Version

Daily Show: Economist Daniel Hammermesh (University of Texas) measures looks on a 5-point scale.
Hammermesh wrote a serious New York Times Opinion Piece on this research.

In-Class Exercise: Writing a Questionnaire from Wednesday, February 22. Due to D2L Dropbox on Sunday, February 27 at 11:59pm.

A complete questionnaire for your projects is also due on Sunday, February 27 at 11:59pm. Write up your questionnaire in Microsoft Word and upload to the appropriate D2L Dropbox.

Informed Consent Statement is also due on Sunday, February 27 at 11:59pm to the appropriate D2L Dropbox.

In-Class Exercise: Questionaire Peer Evaluation from Wednesday, March 21. Due to D2L Dropbox on Sunday, March 25 at 11:59pm.

Module 4: Survey Research

Class notes: Slides, Printer Friendly Version
In-Class Exercise: Survey Approaches from Monday, February 13.

Module 2: Ethics in Research

Class notes: Slides, Printer Friendly Version

Homework #2: National Institute of Health course on Protecting Human Research Participants (PHRP). due on Monday, February 13.

• At the end, you will be able to print out an official NIH PHRP certificate. Print to a PDF (can do this on campus), and upload to D2L dropbox.
• This is something that can go on your resume!

Module 1: Introduction to Research Process

Class notes: Slides, Printer Friendly Version

Homework #1 due on Wednesday, February 1: End of chapter 4 problems 2,3,4,5,6,7 (page 72-73). Legibly write or type your answers to turn in a hard copy at class time, or type your answers and upload to D2L dropbox.

In-class Exercise: on Project Ideas, February 1, 2012.

Project Information

Contract Assignment
Weekly Meeting Minutes Assignment
Presentation Guidelines

Writing your Research Paper and your Research Proposal

Writing Tips

Group Project Assignment due on Wednesday, February 15: Annotated Bibliography
In-Class Exercise: Dissecting a Literature Review from Wednesday, February 15. Due to D2L Dropbox on Sunday, February 19 at 11:59pm.

Class Notes: Slides, Printer Friendly
Introduction First Draft is due on Wednesday, February 22 at 11:59pm.

Group Writing Assignment: A research proposal is due on Wednesday, March 28 at 11:59pm.

Methodology Section of your paper is due on Wednesday, April 11 at 11:59pm. Please see these Methodology Guidelines.

Using Qualtrics

Qualtrics is online survey software for creating and administering electronic surveys. The University of Wisconsin - La Crosse subscribes to this service for its faculty and staff, and employees of the University may request limited access for students for educational purposes or for student employees. You have all been recently granted access to Qualtrics to be used only for BUS 230, and only as instructed. Any unauthorized usage of Qualtrics is extremely serious, and as such will result in removal of your access to the software, and failure for your entire project grade.

In this class you will take your survey questions which you have already prepared and create your online survey. There are features in Qualtrics that you may need to include in your survey, including "display logic" and "skip logic" which allow you to only ask questions if appropriate, and based on answers from previous questions. For example, if you find out someone does not have any brothers or sisters, you should skip the next questions that ask for their ages. Click on both links below to 1) login to Qualtrics and 2) access the online tutorial (Qualtrics University).

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Qualtrics University

Video tutorial on how to send an email reminder to your sample in Qualtrics