Introduction
Exam Four covers materials presented in the class lectures and chapters 8-12 of the Babbie textbook. It contains two sections. In the first section, students will be asked to answer fifteen multiple-choice questions worth 2 points each. In the second section students will be asked to answer two short-answer questions worth 15 points each.
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Readings:
Babbie Textbook: Chapters 8-12.
Survey Question Wording
Class Notes.
Key Terms
Chapter 8: control group, experimental group, matching, posttesting, pretesting, randomization, double-blind experiment, one-shot case study, one-group, pretest-posttest design, static group comparison.
Chapter 9: survey response rate, item response rate, contingency questions. Be prepared to recognize wording problems that can occur on questions asked on a questionnaire.
Chapter 10: naturalism, ethnomethodology, grounded theory, participatory action research, focus groups.
Chapter 11: content analysis, operationalization, manifest coding, latent coding, inter-rater reliability.
Chapter 12: quasi-experimental designs, time-series designs, nonequivalent control groups, multiple-time series designs.
Discussion Topics
- Be prepared to describe the Total Design Method for administering a mailed questionnaire (notes for Chapter 9).
- Be prepared to describe advantages and disadvantages of mailed, telephone, and personal interview surveys. (notes for Chapter 9).
- Be prepared to describe the key characteristics of the first question on a survey questionnaire (notes for Chapter 9).
- Be prepared to describe the three "false dichotomies" of qualitative and quantitative methods (notes for Chapter 10).
- Be prepared to describe the roles of the researcher in qualitative data collection (notes for Chapter 10).
Help Session
Wednesday, November 19th, 5:00pm to 6:00pm, First Floor, East Hall.
