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Research Projects

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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?

Hypotheses and research questions

Literature reviews

Research designs by variable measurement scale

Numerical outcome (Y)

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

Surveys

Survey basics

Qualtrics-specific tips

SONA basics

Qualtrics-SONA integration

Multi-item scales

Ethics

Data preparation

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

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.