====== Research Projects ======

This is targeted at undergraduate research projects of the type I facilitate in my Research Methods and Advanced Research Methods courses. These suggestions and tools are likely to be insufficient for other kinds of projects. 

===== What to study? =====

  * [[research_start|How to even start]]
  * [[research_hyps| Hypotheses and research questions]]

===== Literature reviews =====

  * [[lit_basics|Literature reviews -basics]]
  * [[lit_howmanyrefs|How many articles?]]
  * [[lit_structure|How to structure a literature review]] (Dr. R's hard-won method)
  * [[lit_cite|How to cite sources]]

===== Research designs by variable measurement scale =====

=== Numerical outcome (Y) ===

  * Multiple categorical predictors: [[factaov|Factorial ANOVA]]
  * Multiple numerical predictors: [[multrgj|Multiple regression]]
  * Numerical and categorical predictors: [[ancova|ANCOVA (analysis of covariance)]]

=== Binary outcome (Y) ===

If you're in my class, please try to avoid this. It can be done in ways (conceptually and functionally) similar to designs with a numerical outcome variable, but you will need to learn how to set things up a bit differently, and you will need to learn how to interpret some new kinds of statistics.

=== Categorical outcome (Y) ===

If you're in my class, don't do this.

===== Manipulating variables =====

  * [[manip_btw_ss|Between subjects]]
  * [[manip_rpt_meas|Repeated measures]]

===== Multi-item scales =====

  * [[scales_choose|Choosing scales]]
  * [[scales_score|Scoring & instructions]]
  * [[scales_write|Writing up scales in papers & posters]]

===== Surveys =====

=== Survey basics ===

[[survey_design|Survey design basics]]

=== Qualtrics-specific tips ===
  * [[qualtrics_basics|Qualtrics basics: Questions, blocks, etc.]]
  * [[qualtrics_names|Naming questions & blocks]]
  * [[qualtrics_recodes|Recodes (this is really, really important)]]
  * [[qualtrics_data|Getting your data from Qualtrics]]
  * [[qualtrics_code|You Want a Researcher Code Box]] (You don't know it, yet, but you definitely do)
  * [[qualtrics_advanced|Advanced stuff most people won't need]]
  * [[qualtrics_flow|Survey flow]] 
=== SONA ===

  * [[sona|SONA basics]]
  * [[qualtrics_sona|Link Qualtrics to SONA]]

===== Ethics =====

[[informed_consent|Informed consent]]

===== Data preparation =====


You will probably need a spreadsheet program/application like Calc, Excel, Numbers, or Google sheets, to do data wrangling.

  * [[data_wrangling|Data wrangling, cleaning, tidying, preparation]]
  * [[data_scales|Scoring multi-item scales (for analysis)]]
  * [[data_conditions|Creating a single variable for manipulated conditions]]

===== Data analysis =====
Note: Most of this assumes you are using JASP. If you're using another stats program like Minitab, Stata, SPSS, or SAS, you will probably have to adapt these instructions. If you're using R, you probably don't need these instructions.

  * [[jasp_getdata|Getting data into JASP]]
  * [[jasp_descriptives|Descriptive statistics]]
  * [[jasp_rgj|(Multiple) Regression in JASP]]
  * [[jasp_ttest|t-tests in JASP]]
  * [[jasp_graphs|Graphs in JASP]]
  * [[jasp_alpha|Cronbach's alpha in JASP]] (internal consistency reliability for multi-item scales)

===== Papers and posters =====

  * [[pp_structure|Scientific paper/poster structure]]
  * [[pp_intro|Introduction/literature review]]
  * [[pp_hyps|Hypotheses]]
  * [[pp_methods|Method(s)]]
  * [[pp_results|Results]]
  * [[pp_discussion|Discussion]]
  * [[pp_refs|References]]
  * [[pp_citedr|Cite for Dr. Rogers' classes]]
  * [[pp_misc|Miscellaneous notes & tips]]