BUS 230: Business and Economics Research and CommunicationFall 2011 |
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Instructor: James Murray, Ph.D. Office: 403W Wimberly Hall Office hours: 9:00am-11:00am; Monday, Wednesday; 8:00am-9:00am Tuesday, Thursday. E-mail: jmurray@uwlax.edu How to Study Effectively: Slides from class Videos on How to Study Effectively from Dr. Stephen Chew a Cognitive Psychologist at Samford University Group Project Assignments: Writing Tips Group Assignments, i.e. who is in your group. Contract Assignment due on Tuesday, September 13. Minutes Assignment due every Tuesday beginning Sept 20. In-class Exercises: Tuesday, September 13: Exploring Research Project Ideas Tuesday, September 27: Survey Approaches Tuesday, September 27: Biases in questionnaires. Login to D2L Course to do and turn exercise. Tuesday, October 25: Tips for critiquing questionnaires Tuesday, October 25: Using Qualtrics Panels to Distribute Surveys Tuesday, December 6: Data Visualization Notes: Week 2, September 12: Business Research Process (Chapter 4, pages 51-69). Week 3, September 19: Research Problem (Chapter 6, pages 119-127). Week 3, September 19: Ethics in Research (Chapter 5, pages 88-103). Week 3, September 20: Writing Introductions / Literature Reviews. Week 4, September 26: Overview of Survey Research Week 5, October 3: Questionnaire Design (Chapter 15, pages 335-351) Week 6, October 10: Sampling Design (Chapter 16, pages 386-402) Week 9, October 31: Univariate and Bivariate Statistics Week 10, November 7: Measuring Relationships Among Variable Week 13, December 5: Data Visualization Week 13, December 5: PowerPoint Presentations |