Readings

Survey Research & Design in Psychology

Textbooks

• E-Reserve
• Francis, G. (2004). Introduction to SPSS for Windows v11.0 & v12.0 (4th ed.). Sydney: Pearson Education. AU$65 | Spiral | Support site
• Howell, D. C. (2007). Statistical methods for psychology (6th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. ISBN-10: 0495012874 | ISBN-13: 9780495012870. $115 | Hardbound | Support site | Wadsworth site

Readings (Tutorials)

• Assumed knowledge and exercises to be completed from Francis are indicated in the notes for each tutorial.

Readings (Lectures)

Weeks 1 & 2 (Lectures 1 & 2) - Survey Design

• Howell Ch1 Basic Concepts
• Cannell, (n. d.). Designing questions to be good measures.
  Creative Research Systems (2006). Survey design.

Week 3 (Lecture 3) - Describing & Graphing Data

• Howell Ch2 Exploring and Describing Data
• Decision tree (Howell, 2007, Fig 1.1; pdf)

Week 4 (Lecture 4) - Correlation

• Howell Ch9 Correlation and Regression
• Howell Ch10 Alternative Correlational Techniques

Weeks 5 & 6 (Lecture 5 & 6) - Factor Analysis

• Bryman, A. & Cramer, D. (1997). Concepts and their measurement (Ch. 4). In Quantitative data analysis with SPSS for Windows: A guide for social scientists (pp. 53-68). Routledge.  [E-Reserve]
• DeCoster, J. (2000). Scale construction notes. [pdf]
• Fabrigar, L. R., Wegener, D. T., MacCallum, R. C., & Strahan, E. J. (1999). Evaluating the use of exploratory factor analysis in psychological research. Psychological Methods, 4, 3, pp. 272-299. [E-Reserve] - Summary
• Howitt, D. & Cramer, D. (2005). Reliability and validity: evaluating the value of tests and measures (Ch. 13). In Introduction to research methods in psychology (pp. 218-231). Pearson. [E-Reserve]
• Tabachnick, B. G. & Fidell, L. S. (2001). Principal components and factor analysis. In B. G. Tabachnick & L. S. Fidell, Using multivariate statistics. (4th ed., pp. 582 - 633). Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon. [E-Reserve]

Week 11 & 12 (Lectures 8 & 9) - Multiple Linear Regression

• Howell Ch9 Correlation and Regression
• Howell Ch15 Multiple Regression
• Writing up a MLR: Tabachnick, B. G. & Fidell, L. S. (2001). Multiple regression. In B. G. Tabachnick & L. S. Fidell, Using multivariate statistics. (4th ed., pp. 159 - 170). Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon. [E-Reserve]
• Optional online readings:
  • Linear regression
  • Multiple linear regression

Week 13 (Lecture 10) - Advanced ANOVA

• Howell Ch3 The Normal Distribution
• Howell Ch4 Sampling Distributions and Hypothesis Testing
• Howell Ch7 Hypothesis Tests Applied to Means
• Howell Ch11 Simple Analysis of Variance
• Howell Ch12 Multiple Comparisons Among Treatment Means
• Howell Ch13 Factorial Analysis of Variance
• Howell Ch14 Repeated-Measures Designs
• Howell Ch16 Analyses of Variance and Covariance as General Linear Models

Week 14 (Lecture 11) - Power and Effect Sizes

• Howell Ch3 The Normal Distribution
• Howell Ch4 Sampling Distributions and Hypothesis Testing
• Howell Ch7 Hypothesis Tests Applied to Means
• Howell Ch8 Power
• Optional

  • A Coin-Flipping Exercise to Introduce the P-Value

Week 15 (Lecture 12) - Review

• None