This page is provided for the benefit of students enrolled in courses on Research Methods and Statistics. In addition to links to the course syllabus, class notes and other class support materials, links are provided to worldwide library resources and web search engines to help students do literature reviews for research projects. Links to download statistics software from the web are also provided.
Links on this Page
- Library Resources
- Web Search Engines
- Course Syllabus
- Class Notes/PowerPoint Slides
- Other Class Support Materials
- Statistics Software
Library Resources
- Hunt Library Support Home Page (A must stop for all research efforts!)
Search the Web for Background Material
Use the search engines below to search the Internet for keywords that relate to your research topic
The Course Syllabus Information
- Weekly Content Overviews and Learning Objectives
- Course Schedule Summary
- List of Course Materials and Grading Scale
Class Notes / PowerPoint Slides
The links below will allow you to either view or download Microsoft PowerPoint slides comprising the visual aids used in the course for each block of instruction. You do not need PowerPoint loaded on your computer to view the slides from this page. They will be displayed on your Internet browser. Copies of the actual PowerPoint files can also be downloaded -- either individually (one file per week) or all together as a single zipped file which contains the slides for all of the weeks. A copy of pkunzip.exe is also available for download to use to unzip the collection of slides.
- Week 1 (What is Research & Library) View or Download
- Week 2 (Problem Statement and Hypothesis) View or Download
- Week 3 (Intro to Data & Scales) View or Download
- Week 4 (Selecting a Sample from a Population) View or Download
- Week 5 (Measures of Central Tendency) View or Download
- Week 6 (Measures of Variability) View or Download
- Week 7 ( Formatting Written Reports) View or Download
- Week 8 (Critique Classmates' Papers) View or Download
- Week 9 (Qualitative, Historical and Descriptive Research) View or Download
- Week 10 (Comparative Research) View or Download
- Week 11 (Correlational Research) View or Download
- Week 12 (Experimental Research) View or Download
- Week 13 (Final Exam) View or Download
- Week 14 (Review of GRP Proposal Requirements) View or Download
- Week 15 (Turn in GRP Proposal) NO SLIDES THIS WEEK
- Download the PowerPoints slides for all the chapters in a zipped file
- Download "pkunzip.exe" for unzipping the the PowerPoint slides
Other Course Support Materials
- Table of Contents (Suggested Layout for Research Proposal)
---- View as
Web Page
---- Download
in Microsoft Word 6.0 Format
Warning: This page contains lots of
graphics, so it may take several minutes to download
- Statistical Exercises for Use with Microsoft Excel
---- Exercise #1 (View or Download )
---- Exercise #2 (View or Download )
---- Exercise #3 (View or Download )
---- Exercies #4 (View or Download )
---- Exercise #5 (View or Download )
---- Exercise #6 (View or Download )
Statistics Software and Reference Material
- Link to Statistical Resources on the Internet
- Link to Texasoft Home Page (producers of Kwikstat and WINKS)
(WINKS and Kwikstat
are two excellent stand alone shareware statistics packages)
---- Download an
evaluation copy of Kwikstat (for DOS)
---- Download an
evaluation copy of WINKS
(for Windows)
- Link to xlStat for Microsoft Excel
(xlStat is a set of shareware add-ins for expanding statistical features of Microsoft Excel )