Review of Research Basics  

Since this is review material, read or skim as needed.

• Text: de Vaus (5th and 6th editions): Chapters 1, 2, 3, 12, 13

• Variables and Scales of Measurement (practice exercise)

• Hypotheses 

• Notes on Writing Hypotheses 

• Videos explaining how to write hypotheses and avoid common errors (videos from EDUR 8131 course):

  • (a) Writing Hypotheses
  • (b) Practice Writing Hypotheses
  • (c) Common Errors When Writing Hypotheses
  • Notes presented in videos are linked above as "Writing Hypotheses"

• Literature Review

• Reliability - brief review of concepts

  • Measurement: Instrument/Test Reliability

  • William Gabrenya's Reliability 

• Measurement: Instrument/Test Validity (practice exercise)   

• Descriptive Statistics and Graphical Displays
  • Practice exercise for displaying data
• Inferential Statistics
  • Practice Exercise
• Logic of Hypothesis Testing
• B. Burt Gerstman's: Hypothesis Testing and p-values (see especially misconceptions of p-values on page 4)