Wednesday, September 5
Discussion of Homework Assignment from Aug. 29
Introduction to Experimental Designs
Assigned Reading: Neutens - pages 67-76
Supplemental Reading:
Types of Designs
Experimental Design
Homework: (1) Handout. Answer questions related to the 2 newspaper articles. Have answers ready for discussion on Sept. 10.

Wednesday, September 12
Discussion of homework assignment from Sept. 10
Sampling Techniques
Assignment #1 explained
Assigned Reading: Neutens - pages 82-87.
Supplemental Reading: Patten'97 pp.39-50
Sampling Techniques (be sure to read the links on this page to "key terms in sampling", "statistical terms used in sampling", "probability sampling", "non-probability sampling"), Sampling in Research,
Homework: None

Monday, September 17
Quasi-Experimental Designs
Assigned Reading: (1) Handout given in class and (2) Neutens - Chapter 2 - pages 15-38 (3) APA Manual - Chapter 2 - Expressing Ideas and Reducing Bias in Language (have this chapter read by next Monday (Sept. 24))
Supplemental Reading: (1) Advances in Quasi-Experimentation; (2) Quasi-Experimental Design
Homework: (1) Handout. Answer questions related to the 3 abstracts. Have answers ready for discussion on September 19.

Wednesday, September 19
Ethical Issues
Assigned Reading: The articles handed out in class (1) Yes, But by Gray (2) Why Business needs Scientists by Schulhof.
Supplemental Reading: Take a look at the text Ethical Decision Making in Physical Activity Research by Drowatzky (on reserve in the library)
Homework: (1) Read the research article handed out in class titled Validity of the modified back-saver sit-and-reach test: A comparison with other protocols by Hui & Yuen. (2) Read the information about Florence Griffith Joyner's Autopsy

Wednesday, September 26
Guidelines for Human Subject Research
Handout study to read for discussion October 1
Assignment #1 due
Assigned Reading:
(1) Guidelines for Human Subjects Research at Ithaca College
(2) 2001 Submission Deadlines for Human Subject Research
(3) The following articles (these articles have been placed in envelopes in the Grad Office... please pick them up)
(a) Excerpts from the text Proposals That Work (b) Handout titled "Editor's Viewpoint: Who's on First, What's on Second?"
Supplemental Reading: None...
Homework: Read (1) Adams et al. (2001). Progressive strength training in sedentary, older African American women, Med. Sci. Sports Exerc., 33(9): 1567-1576 and (2) Spence, J.C. & Blanchard, C. (2001). Effect of pretesting on feeling states and self-efficacy in acute exercise. Research Quarterly for Exerc. and Sport, 72(3): 310-314.

Monday, October 15
Guest speaker: Dr. Sandra Herndon, Chair of the Graduate Program in Communications
Skills you will need to be a qualitative researcher - interviewing, focus groups, etc.
Assigned Reading for next class:
Supplemental Reading: Chapter dealing with - Communication Processes in the Field Research Interview Setting and the Chapter dealing with - Using Qualitative and Quantitative Methods to Triangulate the Research Process in the text Qualitative Research : Applications in Organizational Communication by Herndon (1993). This text is on a 2-hour reserve in the Library.
Homework:

Wednesday, October 17
Guest speaker: Dr. Greg Shelley
Comparing and contrasting other types of qualitative research designs - grounded theory, symbolic interaction, culture, ethnomethodology
Assigned Reading for next class:
Supplemental Reading:
Homework:
 

Monday, October 29
Guest speaker: Dr. Mary Bentley, Chair of the Department of Health Promotion and Human Movement
What qualitative research is really like: Levels of decision making from paint by number to Picasso
Handout article for October 31 discussion
Assigned Reading:
Supplemental Reading:
Homework:

Wednesday, October 31
Research study discussion
Assignment #2 due
TAKE-HOME EXAM #2 handed out in class
Assigned Reading:
Supplemental Reading:
Homework:

Wednesday, November 7
Non-experimental designs
Survey Research
Assigned Reading: Neutens - Chapter 6
Supplemental Reading:
A Brief Guide to Questionnaire Development
The Survey Research Design
Methodologic Terminology
TOP 2 Guide To The Design Of Questionnaires (pdf file)
Homework: