Schedule:

9/7 Course Introduction
9/9 Codebooks and Data Architecture

Submission Due: Quiz 1 (before start of class) 
9/10 NO DROP-IN HOURS

Submission Due by 6pm: Mini-Assignment 1 and Blog Entry 1

Blog Entry 1 (Your blog entry should include the information below and any additional reflection or questions you have moving forward. Please refer to the syllabus for instructions on how you should submit your blog).

  • Project Component A
  • Are you happy with your research question? Are you having trouble focusing on one topic or association of interest?
9/14 Literature Review
9/16 Writing about Empirical Research

Submission Due: Quiz 2 (before start of class) 
9/17 Drop-in Hours

Submission Due by 6pm: Blog Entry 2

Blog Entry 2

  • Discuss any changes to your research question
  • Project Component B
  • Did you struggle to find literature that pertained to your project?
9/21 Working with Data

Submission Due: Quiz 3 (before start of class) 
9/23 Working with Data (cont.) and Continue work on Research Plan Outline
9/24 Drop-in Hours

Submission Due by 6pm: Mini-Assignment 2 and Blog Entry 3

Blog Entry 3

  • Discuss any changes to your research question and the reason for these changes
  • Project Components C&D
  • Any general concerns about your project as you move forward?
9/28 Data Management

Submission Due: Quiz 4 (before start of class), Mini-Assignment 3 (due 3/3 by 6PM)
9/30 Exam 1
10/1 Drop-in Hours

Submission Due by 6pm: Blog Entry 4

Blog Entry 4

  • Project Component E
  • Do you feel like your project is on track? If not, what type of support do you feel you need in order to move forward?
  • What type of data management decisions do you still have left?
10/5 Graphing Variables

Submission Due: Quiz 5 (before start of class)
10/7 Graphing Relationships

Submission Due: Quiz 6 (before start of class)
10/8 Drop-in Hours

Submission Due by 6pm: Mini-Assignment 4 and Blog Entry 5

Blog Entry 5

  • Project Component F
  • Describe any current roadblocks on your project. What is your next step in moving forward?
10/12 Hypothesis Testing and ANOVA

Submission Due: Quiz 7 (before start of class)

 
10/14 Chi-square

Submission Due: Quiz 8 (before start of class)
10/15 Drop-in Hours

Submission Due by 6pm: Mini-Assignment 5 & Research Plan Paper
10/19  

Correlation

Submission Due: 

Quiz 9 (before start of class)

Mini-Assignment 6 (by 6pm)
10/21 Exam 2
10/22 Drop-in Hours

Submission Due by 6pm:  Blog Entry 6

Blog Entry 6

  • Project Components G&H
  • Does your graph meet your expectations about the relationship between the variables under consideration?
  • How do these components connect to your research question?
10/26 Fall Break
10/28 Regression and Study Design

Submission Due: Quiz 10 (before start of class)

  
10/29 Drop-in Hours

Submission Due by 6pm: Mini-Assignment 7

 
11/2 Multiple Linear Regression

Submission Due: Quiz 11 (before start of class)

  
11/4 Confounding and Multivariate Models

Submission Due: Quiz 12 (before start of class)

  
11/5 Drop-in Hours

Submission Due by 6pm: Mini-Assignment 8 & 9 & Blog Entry 7

Blog Entry 7

  • Project Component I
  • Describe additional variables you want to bring into your study. Why do you think they are important or interesting to explore?
  • How do these additional variables of interest connect to the literature?
  
11/9 Moderating Variables

Submission Due: Quiz 13 (before start of class)

  
11/11 Logistic Regression

Submission Due:  Quiz 14 (before class) 

  
11/12 Drop-in Hours

Submission Due by 6pm: Mini-Assignments 10-11 & Blog Entry 8

Blog Entry 8

  • Project Component J
  
11/16 Logistic Regression (cont.)  
11/18 Exam 3  
11/19 Drop-in Hours

Submission Due by 6pm: Blog Entry 9 (Project Component K&L), also complete Project Component M in WordPress 

  
11/23 Making Posters

Submission Due by 6pm: Blog Entry 10

Blog Entry 10

  • Describe anything that you are working on. This may include:
    • A new visualization or graph you think you would like to use on your final poster.
    • A new analysis you have performed
  • Do have any questions or concerns about your project? This will be your last opportunity to get written feedback from your peer mentor?
  
11/25 Thanksgiving Break  
11/26 Thanksgiving Break  
11/30 Analysis and Poster Work (cont.)  
12/2 Analysis and Poster Work (cont.)  
12/3 Drop-in Hours

Submission Due by 6pm: Posters on WordPress page AND Moodle

  
12/7 Exam 4 Practice

Submission Due: Project Abstract on WordPress page by end of day 

  
12/9 Exam 4  
12/10 POSTER SESSION – NOON TO 3PM