Reading materials | Weekly Q&A | Lecture notes

Before class

Review the readings and practices from previous weeks.

Empirical research foundations

  • Key concepts:
    • Week 2: Qualitative and mixed-methods research - General process and data collection
    • Week 3: Quantitative research - Data management and measures
  • Test questions:
    • Qualitative Group Project.
    • Quantitative Test: Q1

Descriptive statistics: Week 4

  • Key concepts:
    • Distribution: frequency, percentiles
    • Central tendency: mean, weighted mean, median, mode
    • Dispersion: standard deviation, skewness
  • Test questions:
    • Quantitative test: Q2

Foundation for inferential statistics: Weeks 5 and 6

  • Key concepts:
    • Probability: Z-scores
    • Distribution tables
    • Standard errors
    • Confidence Intervals and p-values
    • Type I and type II error
  • Test questions:
    • Quantitative test: Q3

Testing differences: Week 7

  • Key concepts:
    • Estimating population proportions
    • Testing difference of means
    • Contingency tables and Chi-Square test of independence
  • Test questions:
    • Quantitative test: Q4


In class

  • Concepts review lecture.
  • In-class quiz (Kahoot!).
  • Hands-on practices.

After class