IS4800 - Empirical Research Methods in Information Science

 

 

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Schedule

 

Date

Topics & Readings

Assignments

Lectures

 

Due

Start

1/9

Introduction.

I1

1/12

The Scientific Method (B&A Ch 1). Doing background research (B&A Ch 3, 67-100). Sample research plan.

I1

1/16

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




1/19

Ethnography (B&A pp 242-247, Fetterman, Klasnja, Chen). R: Introduction



I2a

1/23

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



I2b 

1/26

Objective measures (B&A Ch 5). Descriptive statistics (B&A Ch 13 to 421). R: Descriptive statistics.


1/30

Information system measures (Nielsen Ch 6, Hinckley, Rodriguez).

I2

I3

2/2

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


2/6

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

I3

I4

2/9

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


2/13

Correlational designs (B&A Ch 13 from 422). R: correlation.

 

2/16

The experimental method I - Between subject designs (B&A Ch 10 to 312). R: 1 sample t-test.

I4

I5

2/20

The experimental method II - the t-test for independent means (B&A Ch 14 to 447). R: Normal dist; 2 sample t-test.

 

2/23

Power & Effect Size (review B&A Ch 14, 440-444). Review for midterm.

 

2/27

MIDTERM EXAM [Study guide]

I5


3/2

Identifying research questions (B&A Ch 2, Ch 3 to 67). Team projects.

T1

SPRING BREAK


3/13

 BLIZZARD

 

 

3/16

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

 

 

3/20

IS4800 Study presentations I. Single-subject designs (B&A Ch 12).

T1

T2

3/23

Within-subjects designs (B&A Ch 10 312-326). The t-test for dependent means. Example (Rigby)

 

3/27

One-way ANOVA (B&A Ch 14, 448-451). Example (Jonsson)

 

 

3/30

Multi-factor between-subjects designs & ANOVA (B&A Ch 10, 326-331, B&A Ch 14, 453-457). Example (Rickenberg).

 

 

4/3

IS4800 Study presentations II. Non-parametric statistics (B&A Ch 14, 458-466).

T2

T3

4/6

Advanced study designs (B&A Ch 11).

 

 

4/10

Regression (B&A 426-428; Gilbert). Factor Analysis (B&A 478-480; Buys & Brown).


4/13

CS6350 project presentations. Review for final.


4/17

IS4800 Study presentations III. CS6350 project presentations.

T3

 

 

4/20

FINAL EXAM:  8-10am Forsyth 202 [Study guide]