Schedule

Week 1

Tuesday 9/9Course Introduction
Thursday
9/11
Codebooks and Data Architecture
Submission Due: Quiz 1 (before start of class) 
Friday
9/12
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?

Week 2

Tuesday
9/16
Literature Review
Thursday
9/18
Writing about Empirical Research
Submission Due: Quiz 2 (before start of class) 
Friday
9/19
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?

Week 3

Tuesday
9/23
Working with Data
– Section 1 – Stats – (Exley 184 – Woodhead Lounge)
– Section 2 – R – (Exley 189 – Normal classroom)
– Section 3 – Python students only – (Exley 184 – Woodhead Lounge)
– Section 4 – R & Section 3 – R (Exley 189 – Normal classroom)
Thursday
9/25
Working with Data (cont.)
Submission Due: Quiz 3 (before start of class) 

Continue work on Research Plan Outline
Friday
9/26
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?

Week 4

Tuesday.
9/30
Data Management

Submission Due:
Quiz 4 (before start of class)
Mini-Assignment 3 (by 6pm)
Thursday
10/2
Exam 1
Friday
10/3
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?

Week 5

Tuesday.
10/7
Graphing Variables

Submission Due: Quiz 5 (before start of class)
Thursday
10/9
Graphing Relationships

Submission Due: Quiz 6 (before start of class)
Friday
10/10
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?

Week 6

Tuesday.
10/14
Hypothesis Testing and ANOVA

Submission Due: Quiz 7 (before start of class)
Thursday
10/16
Chi-square

Submission Due: Quiz 8 (before start of class)
Friday
10/17
Drop-in Hours

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

Week 7

Tuesday
10/21
FALL BREAK
Thursday
10/23
Correlation

Submission Due: 
– Quiz 9 (before start of class)
Friday
10/18
Drop-in Hours

Submission Due by 6pm:  Blog Entry 6 & Mini-Assignment 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?

Week 8

Tuesday
10/28
Exam 2
Thursday
10/30
Regression and Study Design

Submission Due: Quiz 10 (before start of class)
Friday
10/31
Drop-in Hours

Submission Due by 6pm: Mini-Assignment 7

Week 9

Tuesday
11/4
Multiple Linear Regression
Submission Due: Quiz 11 (before start of class)
Thursday
11/6

Logistic Regression

Submission Due: Quiz 12 (before start of class)
Friday
11/7
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?

Week 10

Tuesday
11/11
Continuation of Work
Thursday
11/13
Moderating Variables

Submission Due: Quiz 13 (before start of class)
Friday
11/14
Drop-in Hours

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

Blog Entry 8
– Project Components J & K

Week 11

Tuesday
11/18
Confounding

Submission Due: 
Quiz 14 (before class)
Mini-Assignment 11 (by 6pm)
Thursday
11/20
Exam 3
Friday
11/21
Drop-in Hours

Week 12

Tuesday
11/25
Making Posters
Submission due by end of class: Project Component L (no extensions)
Thursday
11/27
Thanksgiving Break
Friday
11/28
Thanksgiving Break

Week 13

Tuesday
12/2
Analysis and Poster Work (cont.)
Thursday
12/4
Analysis and Poster Work (cont.)
Friday
12/5
Drop-in Hours

Finalize project code (Project Component M) and WordPress page

Submission Due by 6pm:
Project Component M
Finalized poster submitted on WordPress
Completed abstract on WordPress page
Finalized poster submitted on Moodle
(Late submissions will receive a 5 point deduction per day on final project.)

Week 14

Tuesday
12/9
Final Checklist
Exam 4 Practice
Thursday
12/11
Exam 4
Friday
12/12
POSTER SESSION – 1PM TO 3PM