EDMS 646 Quantitative Research Methods II 0306 Benjamin Building Wednesday 4 15 7 00pm 2007 Fall Semester Syllabus Instructor Dr Jeffrey Harring 1230F Benjamin Building Phone 301 405 3630 Email harring umd edu Office Hours Tuesday 2 00 4 00pm or by appointment Teaching Assistant TBD Office Hours TBD Required Textbook Lomax R G 2007 Statistical Concepts A Second Course Third Edition Mahwah NJ Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Maybe some supplemental readings placed on reserve in the Benjamin Building Circulation Desk basement Additional Reference Textbooks Agresti A Finlay B 1997 Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences 3rd ed Upper Saddle River NJ Prentice Hall Novice to intermediate Hinkle D E Wiersma W Jurs S G 2003 Applied Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences Fifth Edition Boston MA Houghton Mifflin Novice to intermediate Howell D C 2002 Statistical Methods for Psychology 5th edition Pacific Grove CA Duxbury Press Intermediate Glass G V Hopkins K D 1984 Statistical methods in education and psychology 2nd ed Englewood Cliffs NJ Prentice Hall Moderately advanced Hays W 1999 Statistics 5th ed New York Hot Rinehart Winston Advanced Neter J Kutner M H Nachtsheim C J Wasserman W 2004 Applied linear statistical models 5th ed Chicago Irwin Advanced Course Description EDMS 646 is the second course of the EDMS graduate level statistics sequence The course builds on topics which were introduced in EDMS 645 An understanding of all of the following is assumed i normal distributions ii z tests iii Student s t distribution iv t tests v bivariate correlation and simple linear regression and vi 2 tests of goodness of fit and independence I am also assuming familiarity with SPSS Windows The class is applied meaning that course material will be presented to facilitate your conceptual understanding of fundamental statistical methods typically employed in educational and psychological research settings This does not mean that underlying statistical and mathematical theory will not be presented it just won t be the focal point of the course Technical aspects of analyses will be presented and stressed as the material warrants 1 EDMS 646 Quantitative Research Methods II 0306 Benjamin Building Wednesday 4 15 7 00pm 2007 Fall Semester Syllabus Blackboard and Course Delivery I will be using Blackboard the University of Maryland s new course delivery system For those of you who have used WebCT in the past the transition to blackboard should be seamless To access the course please use the following URL https elms umd edu webapps portal frameset jsp You will be directed to the Blackboard homepage where you will be asked to provide your Username Directory ID and a Password If you have difficulty logging in there is a self help page that takes you step by step through the process located by clicking on Student Logging into your Course s housed within the Login help box on the homepage What you will find on the course site Folders for assignments course notes data sets exam materials etc Grades Announcements and other types of communication Prior to coming to class each week students are to print out and bring with them the lecture notes for that week s class Please follow the syllabus for topics and dates Materials should be posted by the morning on the day of class If they are not please don t fret I will make copies of the notes and bring them to class for you Statistical Software You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader http www adobe com downloads to read and print most of the course materials This program is free and comes already installed on most new computers You may also want to install Java on your computer http java sun com This will allow you to open any web applets that we may use in the course While there are numerous statistical packages available to researchers today the EDMS department supports SPSS versions 11 0 and higher Windows and Macintosh Examples in class will come from SPSS Windows 14 0 15 0 which is available in the Benjamin Building s computer lab in the basement Students may use whichever recent package they wish but they should know that slight differences may exist between what I present and the options available on their chosen version There are three possible courses of action for using SPSS Option 1 Buy nothing Use a campus lab to do SPSS for this class Option 2 Buy a version of the Student Ware package which include a manual and should get you through EDMS 651 except for repeated measures However as with most student versions this package is limited by the amount of data that can be stored and manipulated 2 EDMS 646 Quantitative Research Methods II 0306 Benjamin Building Wednesday 4 15 7 00pm 2007 Fall Semester Syllabus Option 3 Buy a version of the GradPack which historically costs about 225 and manuals must be purchased separately This is for the student who plans to take more quantitative classes beyond EDMS 651 and or who plans to conduct serious quantitative research e g a dissertation Course Topics and Readings Below is a list of topics and readings we will cover throughout the semester For the most part we will follow the order of listed topics Students should keep up with the readings whether or not the material is explicitly covered in class or not Topics Readings Independent samples t test review extensions Review hypothesis testing Factors affecting power Power analysis and sample size calculations Tests for variance 2 distributions and F distributions One way analysis of variance ANOVA model with fixed effects Power analysis and sample size calculations Multiple comparison procedures Familywise error rate Pairwise comparisons complex contrasts trend analysis Factorial ANOVA Two way factorial ANOVA Simple effects interactions Multiple comparisons Higher order designs Concomitant variables Randomized block designs ANCOVA Models for repeated measures designs Repeated measures ANOVA Sphericity and epsilon adjustments Multiple comparisons Models with between within subjects factors MANOVA EDMS 645 notes Harring s notes Pages Harring s notes Lomax Harring s notes 1 26 Lomax Harring s notes 27 51 Lomax Harring s notes 52 81 Lomax Harring s notes 82 105 Lomax Harring s notes 106 139 3 EDMS 646 Quantitative Research Methods II 0306 Benjamin Building Wednesday 4 15 7 00pm 2007 Fall Semester Syllabus The calendar below lists the dates of the lecture topics and the due dates for the homework assignments and the exams Session Date Topic Due Date 1 29 Aug Course overview review