Lecture Notes and Handouts

Week 1 Overview of Course and Research Methods

• Lecture Notes
• Handout

Week 2 Elements of Research and Survey Research Designs

• Lecture Notes (Word document)
• Handouts (Word document)
• Handout—Survey process (PDF document)

Week 3 Secondary Sources

• Lecture Notes (Word document)
• Handouts (Word document)

Week 4 Sampling

• Lecture Notes (Word document)
• SPSS NELS files (Compressed file)
• SPSS Data Entry Builder—Hawaii Teacher Survey (Compressed file)

Week 5 Questionnaire Design

• Lecture Notes (Word Document)
• Handout—Examples of questionnaires (Word Document)

Week 7 Data Collection Procedures

• Lecture Notes (Word Document)
• Handout—Examples of Consent Forms (Word Document)

Week 8 Data Processing Prodecures

• Lecture Notes (Word Document)
• SPSS files for examining response bias (ZIP file)