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Business and Economic Research and Communication

Spring 2013


Course Information


Instructor:
James Murray, Ph.D.
Office: 403T Wimberly Hall
Office hours: 10:00am-11:00am Monday through Thursday.
Phone: 608-406-4068
E-mail: jmurray@uwlax.edu

Syllabus (PDF)
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Project Information


Final Paper due on Friday, May 17 at 5:00pm.
Presentations on Monday May 6 and Wednesday May 8.
Presentation Schedule
Final Paper Section: Methodology due on Friday, April 26
Informed Consent Statement due on Wednesday, April 3
Final Paper Section: Introduction due on Wednesday, March 6
Research Proposal due on Monday, Februay 25
Annotated Bibliography due on Monday, February 18
Contract Assignment due Monday, February 4
Weekly Meeting Minutes Assignment, due every week with a project deadline.


Practice Exams


Practice Exam 1
Practice Exam 2


Module 9: Data Visualization


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Module 8: Statistics Investigating Relationships


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SPSS Handout, Datasets: hotel.sav, publicexp.sav.


Module 7: Univariate and Bivariate Statistics


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SPSS Handout, Datasets: eduspending.sav, econoutlook.sav, gradeschool.sav, Job Satisfaction.sav

Homework assignment due on Monday, April 22, 2013. Datasets: eurointernet.sav, training.sav.


Module 6: Sample Design


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Module 5: On Writing


General Tips for Writing
Class Notes on Writing Introductions: Slides, Printer Friendly Version
Wednesday, February 27, In-class exercise: Decomposing a literature review. Type up your responses and upload your submission to the appropriate D2L dropbox.


Module 4: Writing Questionnaires


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Wednesday, March 6, In-class exercise: Brainstorming for your questionnaire. Type up your responses and upload your submission to the appropriate D2L dropbox.

Using Qualtrics:
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Instructions for sending an email reminder to your potential participants

Qualtrics Questionnaire:
First draft due on Wednesday, March 27 by 2:15pm.
Practice run in class on Wednesday, March 27. We will complete each other's surveys.
Considerations for peer evaluation of questionnaires
Final draft due on Wednesday, April 3 by 2:15pm.


Module 3: Survey Research


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Module 2: Ethical Considerations in Research


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Homework: National Institute of Health course on Protecting Human Research Participants (PHRP). due on Monday, February 18, 11:59pm.

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

Module 1: Introduction to Research Process


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Wednesday, February 6, In-class Exercise: Exploring Research Project Ideas

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