Week Fourteen - Alternative Research
Designs: Experimental Research and Qualitative Field Research
Week Fifteen - Last day of class May 5. Review for Final. All students are asked to attend to fill out the course evaluations and get guidance for preparing for the final exam.
Reading:
Monday: Lecture on Experiments - A Powerpoint on this topic is in Sakai/Resources/Week Fourteen
Wednesday: Lecture on Qualitative Field Research. - A Powerpoint on this topic is in Sakai/Resources/Week Fourteen
Wednesday: Review Lecture - Attendance required for all students with an expected grade less than 70 and recommended for al; others
A big strength of experiments is resolving questions that involve different recollections of events, e.g., children's reports of abuse. You don't know what "really" happened and people disagree on how well they accept the recollections of different people. In an experiment, you know what really happened, so you can check the accuracy of perception. We find that children often remember things that didn't really happen. "20/20 report on Child Abuse experiments (VIDEO shown in class from an ABC News 20/20 show aired October 22, 1993, hosted by Hugh Downs. demonstrates false memory because we know what really happened since it happened in a controlled experimental setting. This is much more difficult to establish in real life case histories: Loftus: Who Abused Jane Doe? There is other information online on the Kelly Michaels case and other cases.
Week Fifteen - Last day of class May 5. Review for Final. All students are asked to attend to fill out the course evaluations and get guidance for preparing for the final exam.
Reading:
- Babbie, Chapter 8 on Experiments
- Babbie Chapter 10 on
Qualitative Field Research excluding the section on "Some Qualitative
Research Paradigms"
- Child Abuse Experiment Transcript from ABC 20/20 -
Video shown in class. - Transcript
Here.
- Experimental Macro Sociology: Predicting the Next Best
Seller - Powerpoint Presentation in SAKAI/Resources/Week Fourteen
Monday: Lecture on Experiments - A Powerpoint on this topic is in Sakai/Resources/Week Fourteen
Wednesday: Lecture on Qualitative Field Research. - A Powerpoint on this topic is in Sakai/Resources/Week Fourteen
Wednesday: Review Lecture - Attendance required for all students with an expected grade less than 70 and recommended for al; others
| Quiz Fourteen covering
Experimental Research and Field Research will open by May 1 and be due
on Monday, May 5. |
| Due Monday May 5 or any time before:
Complete the the official
Rutgers
Office
of Research and Sponsored
Programs certification test for research with human
subjects.
This is explained on an ORSP site.
The test, and the material you need to study to pass it, are in SAKAI
and are accessed HERE.
Once you enter SAKAI, click on "MyWorkspace" on the left. Then
click on "Membership" Then click on "Joinable Sites" Then
type "Human Subjects" in the Search box. This will pull up the
course called "Human Subjects Certification Course". Then click
on that course to go to the course page. Once you are within the course, you will find the information you need to learn under "modules" and the test itself iunder "tests and quizzes". You need 80% or better to pass the test. When you have passed, click on "Print Human Subjects Certificate" on the left to print your certificate. Bring the printout to class or email it to me. Do not worry about getting 100% on the test, you will get 100 on this assignment if you pass and bring or email in the letter. If you passed this before, obtain a letter and bring it to class. If you passed it before on the WEBCT system, there is a link on the ORSP site where you can obtain your letter . |
| Due
Wednesday April 30 - Ayers 12 and 13 Plus Crime Drop
Quiz. This quiz can be taken as many times as you like up until
the deadline at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, April 30. You will get
feedback telling which items are wrong. |
A big strength of experiments is resolving questions that involve different recollections of events, e.g., children's reports of abuse. You don't know what "really" happened and people disagree on how well they accept the recollections of different people. In an experiment, you know what really happened, so you can check the accuracy of perception. We find that children often remember things that didn't really happen. "20/20 report on Child Abuse experiments (VIDEO shown in class from an ABC News 20/20 show aired October 22, 1993, hosted by Hugh Downs. demonstrates false memory because we know what really happened since it happened in a controlled experimental setting. This is much more difficult to establish in real life case histories: Loftus: Who Abused Jane Doe? There is other information online on the Kelly Michaels case and other cases.