PSY 3970
Over the course of the semester, students review relevant literature, generate research questions and hypotheses, analyze data, and summarize their findings. While conducting secondary data analysis, students learn about the ethical considerations of conducting research with children or learn about informed consent with convenience/snowball sampling methodology. Students work extensively with SPSS throughout the semester. They clean their data before conducting their analyses, which includes assessing the reliability of multi-item measures using Cronbach’s alpha, reverse-coding survey items, and creating variables They run and interpret descriptive analyses and utilize linear regression models to test their hypotheses and understand relationships among variables in their data. Achieves technology student learning outcomes a, d, and e.