IS4800 – Empirical Research Methods in Information Science

 

 

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Schedule

 

Date

Topics & Readings

Assignments

Lectures

 

Due

Start

1/13

Introduction.

 

I1

1/16

The Scientific Method (B&A Ch 1). Doing background research (B&A Ch 3, 65-95).

I1

I2-3

1/20

Human subjects research (B&A Ch 6 & 7, NU IRB Policy).

 

 

1/23

Ethnography (B&A pp 234-238, Fetterman, Klasnja, Chen). R: Introduction

I2-3

I4
1/27
   Blizzard Juno.


1/30

Research models (B&A Ch 4). R: Data manipulation and plotting



I5 

2/3

Objective measures (B&A Ch 5). Descriptive statistics (B&A Ch 13 to 412). R: Descriptive statistics.

I4,I5


2/6

 Information system measures (Nielsen Ch 6, Sensing Techniques for Mobile Interaction, Usability Study of Physicians).



I7

2/10

 Blizzard Marcus.

 


 

2/13

Behavioral measures & Qualitative methods (B&A Ch 8). R: Interrater reliability.

 


I8

2/17

 Survey measures (B&A Ch 9, debate). R: Internal consistency.

I7

  I9

2/20

   Hypothesis testing. Chi-square tests (Aron Ch 13). R: Chi-square tests.

I8


2/24

Correlational designs (B&A Ch 13 from 413). R: correlation.

  I9

  I11

2/27

   The experimental method I – Between subject designs (B&A Ch 10 to 300). R: 1 sample t-test.

 

 

3/3

The experimental method II – the t-test for independent means (B&A Ch 14 to 435). R: Normal dist; 2 sample t-test. Review for midterm.



  T1

3/6

MIDTERM EXAM [Study guide]

 


 

 

SPRING BREAK

 I11 (3/10)

 

3/17

 Identifying research questions (B&A Ch 2, Ch 3 to 65). Power & Effect Size (B&A Ch 14, 450-454).

 


3/20

Data preparation. Reporting results (B&A Ch 16).

  
 

3/24

Study presentations I. 

T1 


  T2

3/27

 Within-subjects designs (B&A Ch 10 300-314). The t-test for dependent means. Example (Rigby)

 

 

3/31

One-way ANOVA (B&A Ch 14, 436-441). Example (Jonsson)

 

 

4/3

Multi-factor between-subjects designs & ANOVA (B&A Ch 10, 314-321, B&A Ch 14, 442-446). Example (Rickenberg).

 



4/7

Study presentations II.  Some advanced study designs (B&A Ch 11-12).

T2 

  T3 

4/10

 Non-parametric statistics (B&A Ch 14, 446-450).

 

 

4/14

 Regression (Gilbert). Factor Analysis (B&A 468-470; Buys & Brown).

 

 

4/17

 Multivariate design and analysis (B&A Ch 15)

 

 
4/21
 Study presentations III.  Review for final.  T3
 
4/30
FINAL EXAM: 8-10am, Location: Ryder 220 [Study guide]