Calendar for Fall, 2009

PADM 5502

Research Methods and Data Analysis

(Please see summary of changes in this calendar at the bottom

of this calendar.)

 

 

WEEK 1 -- Week beginning August 16, 2000

 

August 17

Classes begin; Faculty begin ongoing attendance verification process

 

Thursday, August 20

FIRST CLASS MEETING

 

WEEK 2 -- Week beginning August 23, 2009

Thursday, August 27

Reading assignment prior to class:

  • Chapter 1: Beginning a Research Project
  • Chapter 2: Designs for Description

WEEK 3 -- Week beginning August 30, 2009

Thursday, September 3

Reading assignment prior to class:

  • Chapter 3: Designs for Explanation
  • Chapter 4: Measuring Variables

WEEK 4 -- Week beginning September 6, 2009

Thursday, September 11

Reading assignment prior to class:

  • Chapter 5: Sampling

 

WEEK 5 -- Week beginning September 13, 2009

Thursday, September 17

Reading assignment prior to class:

  • Chapter 6: Contacting and Talking to Subjects
  • Chapter 7: Data Collection

WEEK 6 -- Week beginning September 20, 2009

Thursday, September 24

Reading assignment prior to class:

  • Chapter 8: Protection of Human Research: Ethics and Other Ethical Issues

 

WEEK 7 -- Week beginning September 27, 2009

Thursday, October 1

  • REVIEW
  • INSTALLMENT ONE OF TERM PAPER DUE

 

WEEK 8 -- Week beginning October 4, 2009

 

October 9 

Mid-term grades for all students due in Banner Web by 3 p.m. 

 

Thursday, October 8

 

MIDTERM EXAMINATION -- over chapters 1 through 8 plus other material presented in class

 

WEEK 9 -- Week beginning October 11, 2009

 

October 14 

Last day to drop a course and withdraw from school with a grade of “W” 

 

Thursday, October 15

Reading assignment prior to class:

  • Chapter 9: Secondary Data Analysis

 

WEEK 10 -- Week beginning October 18, 2009

Thursday, October 22

Reading assignment prior to class:

  • Chapter 10: Combining Indicators: Index Construction

 

WEEK 11 -- Week beginning October 25, 2009

Thursday, October 29

Reading assignment prior to class:

  • Chapter 11: Univariate Analysis

 

WEEK 12 -- Week beginning November 1, 2009

Thursday, November 5

  • INSTALLMENT TWO OF TERM PAPER DUE

Reading assignment prior to class:

  • Chapter 12: Examining Relationships among Variables: Tests of Statistical Significance

 

WEEK 13 -- Week beginning November 8, 2009

Thursday, November 12

Reading assignment prior to class:

  • Chapter 13: Examining Relationships among Variables: Contingency Tables with Measures of Association, Analysis of Variance

 

 

WEEK 14 -- Week beginning November 15, 2009

 

November 17

Deadline to remove “I” and “IP” grades before automatic “F”

 

 

Thursday, November 19

Reading assignment prior to class:

  • Chapter 15: Communicating Findings and Completing the Project

 

 

 

WEEK 15 -- Week beginning November 22, 2009

November 25 - 27

Thanksgiving Holidays

 

Thursday, November 26

 

THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

 

WEEK 16 -- Week beginning November 29, 2009

 

December 3

Grades due in Banner Web before 3 p.m. for potential graduates 

 

Thursday, December 3

  • INSTALLMENT THREE OF TERM PAPER DUE
  • FINAL EXAM FOR POTENTIAL GRADUATES
  • FINAL EXAM FOR ALL STUDENTS (subject to possible change)

WEEK 17 -- Week beginning November 27, 2009

 

 

Thursday, December 10

 

 

 

UPDATES/AMENDMENTS T CALENDAR: