Quantitative Research Methods
- Syllabus
- Assignments
- Video Game Related Links
- Chen & Ringel article
- Groups and Topics for Content Analysis Project
- Content Analysis Introduction Powerpoint
- More Content Analysis Notes
- Coding Sheet for Advergames - a doc file to download
- Coding Sheet for Photos
- Dorm Photos data
- Quiz on SPSS Stuff - due Monday 10/31 by 5pm
- Mean, Medians, Modes example
- Midterm Review
- Hypothesis Make-Up Assignment
- Second Quiz
Methods
- Trochim's Knowledge Base
- Content Analysis Resources
- Intercoder Reliability for content analysis
- An Overview of Content Analysis
- An Introduction to Content Analysis
- Content Analysis Flowchart
- Survey Research Site
- Web Survey Methodology
- Basics of Experimental Design
- Web Psychology Experiments - they have one on instant messenger
- State of the News Media 2004 - an excellent example of content analysis in action
- Tyndall Report - content analysis report of television evening news
SPSS Resources
- SPSS Homepage - has a 30 day free trial you can download (probably does not work on the Mac - boooo)
- Resources for learning SPSS - put together by stats people at UCLA (not IC maintained)
- SPSS Tutorial Lessons
- Statistics Tutorial/Refresher
Statistics Resources
- HyperStats
- Statistics Glossary
- Pitfalls of Data Analysis
- Statistics Section of WWW Virtual Library
- Java Applets for Understanding Statistics
- Knowledge Base - online textbook by Bill Trochim from Cornell
- Online Statistics Book and Statistics Homepage
- Online SPSS book
- APA Style Guide to Electronic References and APA StyleGuide FAQ and APA Style Tips
- Business Statistics - a good reference for everyone, especially IMC folks
- Statistics Online Handbook
Writing Resources (including finding articles for literature review
- APA Style
- Some APA Style Guidelines - for writing papers
- Evaluating Quality on the Net
- Writing the Empirical Research Journal
Data & Sample Instrument Resources
- National Opinion Research Center - possible data source, definitely source for info on survey research
- Social Science Data Collection - data, data, data - for possible extra credit work, for playing with SPSS before exams, for your lit review, etc.
- Personality Tests List - from Google directory - might be some good questions to include in your survey project
- Statistics Sources on the Web
- DASL - data and stories library -has data in text files - have to figure out how to download into spss
- Finding Information on Psychological Tests
- Pew Internet & American Life Project - has data and reports
Other
- Teaching Research Ethics - info from a workshop at Indiana University
- Web Credibility project - from Stanford University
- Monitoring the Future - research on American Youth - may have some findings to include in your lit review
- Kurylo's Research Links - huge page of all kinds of links for research, writing up results, data
- American Association of Public Opinion Research
This page last updated 20 september 2005 by Kim Gregson
