HSS 601 Introduction to Graduate Study

 

Tuesday, 5:00-9:00 p.m.                                                           Grover West 211

Office Hours: M, W, Th 10-12 a.m.                                          Gordy 367

 

e-mail: Bond@ohio.edu

 

Text: Mildred L. Patten, Understanding Research Methods (3rd ed.), 2002.

 

Purpose: The course provides you with background for reading research reports and for conducting research.

 

Schedule of Topics:

 

September 10   Introduction to the course

                        Speech Language & Hearing Sciences

                        The organization and presentation of research

                        Look over Part A of Understanding Research Methods.

 

September 17   Cheryl Ewing: Finding sources in the library (meet in Alden lab)

Read ‘The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax’, on reserve in Alden, and

Part B in Understanding Research Methods.

 

September 24   APA Reference format

Variables, levels of measurement and validity

Look over Topics 23-27 & 39 in Understanding Research Methods.

Read “Perceptual judgment of voice pitch”

 

October 1        Descriptive statistics: Determining central tendency, variability and normalized scores.

                        Look over Topics 43-46 in Understanding Research Methods.

 

October 8        Using Excell (meet in Grover Computer Lab)

                        Data for the class experiment

 

October 15      Midterm examination

 

October 22      Distributions, significance testing and the independent t-test

                        Topics 38 and 48 in Understanding Research Methods.

 

October 29      Research paper evaluation

Dependent measures t-test

 

November 5     Expect a guest lecture from Becky Cale, Compliance Manager,

Ohio University Institutional Review Board

                       

November 12   Correlation

Topic 4 in Understanding Research Methods.

 

 

We will meet on Friday. November 22, at 7 p.m. (time scheduled for the final examination) to talk about the results of the experiment. The final examination is also due.

 

Course requirements:

 

Midterm examination, 15 October                                             25%

Final examination (take-home)                                      25%

References using APA format                                       10 %

            (Due 1 October)

Analysis of a publication in the technical literature                       15%

            (Due 29 October)

Written report on class experiment                                            25%

            (Due at the time of the final examination, 22 November)

                                               

Some matters of business:

 

1. Academic conduct

 

Academic misconduct is a Code A violation of the Ohio University Student Code of Conduct. Academic misconduct refers to dishonesty in examinations (cheating), presenting the ideas or the writing of someone else as one's own (plagiarism), or knowingly furnishing false information to the University. If you are found to be involved in academic misconduct, you will receive, depending on the seriousness of the offense, an "F" grade on the project/test or for the class, and/or a referral to the Director of Judiciaries with the possible sanctions of suspension or expulsion. Since people coming from different cultures may have a different understanding of these issues, you should confer with me about any questions you may have about the above statement. In an institution of higher learning, we must all be held to the highest standards of academic integrity.

 

2. Regrettably, late work will be penalized.

 

3. Excessive absences will lower your grade in the course.