URBS/PLSI 492 "Research Methods"
Richard LeGates Spring, 1999
Office HSS 137 Office Hours M 1 – 3 and by appt.
Phone (415) 338-2875 e-mail dlegates@sfsu.edu
FAX (415) 338-2391
Terms for Midterm
Feb 1 Introduction
BSS computer lab
Deductive reasoning
Empirical research
Inductive reasoning
Interview
PSIRUS Lab
Public policy research
Social science research
Qualitative research
Quantitative research
Theory
8 Choosing Research Topics and Asking Questions.
Questionnaire Design. Experiments. Research Design.
Close-ended question
Control group
Cross-sectional study
Dependent variable
Double blind experiment
Ecological fallacy
Experiment
Experimental group
Independent variable
Likert scale
Longitudinal study
Open-ended question
Operationalization
Pretest
Post-test
Quasi-experimental design
Reliability
Replication
Research Design
Response rate
Unit of analysis
Validity
Variable
22 Survey Research. Literature Searches. The World Wide Web.
Amazon.com
Boolean operator
CARL
Computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) system
Cyburbia
Data
Download
EBSCO Host
FASTDOCS
Investigator
Lexis-Nexis
Literature search
Melvyl
Response rate
Search Engine
Social Science Research and Instructional Council (SSRIC)
World wide web (www)
Yahoo!
March 1 Field Research. Data Collection. Data Entry. Sampling.
Case study
Census
Coding
Data cleaning
Data entry
Ethnography
Field research
Filename
Value
In-depth interview
Index
Indicator
Interval level data
Nominal level data
Non-probability sample
Observation
Optical scan sheet
Ordinal level data
Participant observation
Probability sample
Purposive sample
Random sample
Ratio level data
Sample
Scale
Snowball sample
Spreadsheet
Stratified sample
Validity
Value
Value label
Variable
Variable name
8 Introduction to SPSS
Case study
Coding
Crosstabulation
CROSSTAB command (SPSS)
Data dictionary
Data file
Frequency distribution
FREQUENCIES command (SPSS)
Graphical user interface (GUI)
LIST command (SPSS)
Local area network (LAN)
Mean
Median
Measure of central tendency
MAX command (SPSS)
MEAN command (SPSS)
MIN command (SPSS)
Missing observation
Mode
Operationalization
Recoding data
Statistical package
Statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS)
Value
Value label
Variable
Variable name
15 Introduction to Quantitative Data Analysis
Archival research
Bivariate analysis
Cell
Central tendency
COMPUTE command (SPSS)
Data reduction
Dispersion
Distribution
Graphical user interface (GUI)
IF command (SPSS)
LIST command (SPSS)
Local area network (LAN)
Multivariate analysis
Table
Text file
Univariate analysis
Windows '98 (and '95)