Schedule

Resources

Syllabus [pdf]

Discussions

Instructors: Dr. Robert Lange and Ms. Rebecca Fiedler
Schedule: Wednesdays, 6:00 to 8:50 pm
email Becky or Dr. Lange

Week 3: Jan. 21

Lecture

• Hypotheses [pdf]
• ST: Measures of Central Tendency [pdf]
• QN: Causal-comparative [pdf]
• QL: Oral History [pdf]

In-class activity

Quiz 1 - Quiz 1 has been moved to next week. Download the review guide here.

Yummy data activity: You'll just have to come to class to find out! Download and print your data collection instrument before coming to class.

EndNote demonstration - This is one of my very favorite software packages. No graduate student should be without it. Since we won't be having the quiz tonight, I'm going to show you how to use EndNote (available for free!). Don't miss it!

Homework 3

Due January 28

Part 1

Be sure to read the Patten text topics listed on the course schedule.

Part 2

Questions from Patten text

• p. 16 Questions 1-5
• p. 100 Questions 1-9
• p. 112 Questions 1-5
• p. 116 Questions 1, 4, and 10

Part 3

Draft hypotheses - Begin thinking about research you might do someday. Please turn in 3 draft hypotheses or research questions for work in that area. I want at least one of each. For each, please note if you think the question or hypothesis is best examined using a qualitative or a quantitative study. In one or two sentences, please explain your choice.

Part 4

Quiz 1 next week. Download the review guide here. Questions on the quiz will be drawn from this review sheet. The quiz will not be nearly as long as the review.

Resources

Einstein is reported to have said, "No amount of evidence can prove me right, and any amount of evidence can prove me wrong." I don't know if he was talking about hypothesis testing, but he could have been!

Elements of a Research Study - Tutorial outlining a research study, starting with the hypothesis.

Hypotheses - What do they mean?

Oral History

• How to Do an Oral History - Advice for doing oral history projects with high school students.
• How to Do an Oral History - This is geared specifically to Vietnam War Era oral histories, but the advice is sound.
• Oral History - The principles and standards from the Oral History Association.
• Examples
  • American Life Histories (Manuscripts from the Federal Writers Project) - Be sure to read about the how and they why of the Federal Writers' Project.
  • Becoming American: The Chinese Experience - A Bill Moyers special
  • Chicago Architects - Read about the people who have shaped Chicago
  • Ellis Island Oral History Project - relating the experience of immigrants
  • Experiencing War - Be sure to see the Tracy Sugarman's story. This oral history project is sponsored by the Library of Congress. They offer suggestions for getting students involved as researchers.
  • Holocaust Survivors - Sponsored by the University of Michigan-Dearborn
  • Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History project - Sponsored by the New York Public Library.
  • Southern Oral History Program - Sponsored by the UNC at Chapel Hill, this collection contains over 2000 interviews.
  • The Whole World Was Watching - An oral history of 1968, conducted by Brown University and a high school.