Reading materials | Weekly Q&A | Lecture notes

Before class

Review the readings and practices from previous weeks.

Research design foundations: Weeks 2, 3, 4

  • Key concepts:
    • Week 2: Quantitative research - Measures and validity
    • Week 3: Quantitative research - Research hypothesis and data management
    • Week 4: Qualitative and mixed-methods research - General process and data collection
  • Test questions:
    • Qualitative group project.
    • Quantitative test: Q1

Descriptive statistics: Week 5

  • 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 6 and 7

  • 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 8

  • 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