Basic Course Items and Foundational Concepts

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# Basic Course Items and Foundational Concepts
## EDP 612 Week 1
### Dr. Abhik Roy

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# Welcome!

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# Your Teachers

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Dr. Abhik Roy

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Carinna Ferguson

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# Course Content

The purpose and nature of scientific research.

How knowledge gained from scientific research differs from other types of knowledge.

How to formulate and articulate research problems.

The different types and uses of variables in a research study.

The methods and techniques for establishing and evaluating reliability and validity.

How to critically access and review literature relevant to a particular research problem.

How to write a literature review.

The relationship between research questions and particular research designs.

The most common forms of quantitative and qualitative approaches to research in education and the social and behavioral sciences.

The strengths and shortcomings of these approaches to research.

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# Course Materials

- [eCampus](https://ecampus.wvu.edu/) access: for submissions and grades only

- [Materials](https://edp612.asocialdatascientist.com/materials/) and [Extras](https://edp612.asocialdatascientist.com/extras/) pages

- Text: Leavy, P. (2017). *Research design: Quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods, arts-based, and community-based participatory research approaches* (1st ed.). The Guilford Press.

>- [Digital edition](https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/wvu/detail.action?docID=4832778) (very free)
  
  >- Softcover edition (not legally free) - ISBN: 9781462514380

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# Type

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In-class
  >- Lectures
  >- Activities
  >- Work
  >- Breaks
  >- No exams
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Out-of-class
  >- Work
  >- Literature Review
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# What I expect

- Coming to Class

- Keeping an open line of communication

- Not staying quiet

- Asking questions

- Participating like crazy

- Coming to visit me on Zoom (and hopefully at some point in my office 504O Allen Hall)

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# Assignments

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   <th style="text-align:center;color: #f7f7f7 !important;"> Percent </th>
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   <td style="text-align:center;width: 5em; color: #ffffff !important;vertical-align: middle !important;"> 15 </td>
   <td style="text-align:left;width: 12em; color: #ffffff !important;vertical-align: middle !important;"> Engagement </td>
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   <td style="text-align:center;width: 5em; color: #ffffff !important;vertical-align: middle !important;"> 35 </td>
   <td style="text-align:left;width: 12em; color: #ffffff !important;vertical-align: middle !important;"> Literature Reviews </td>
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   <td style="text-align:center;width: 5em; color: #ffffff !important;vertical-align: middle !important;"> 15 </td>
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   <td style="text-align:center;width: 5em; color: #ffffff !important;vertical-align: middle !important;"> 35 </td>
   <td style="text-align:left;width: 12em; color: #ffffff !important;vertical-align: middle !important;"> Weeklies </td>
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# Grading

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   <td style="text-align:center;width: 5em; width: 5em; color: #ffffff !important;vertical-align: middle !important;"> A </td>
   <td style="text-align:left;width: 12em; color: #ffffff !important;vertical-align: middle !important;"> 90–100% </td>
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   <td style="text-align:center;width: 5em; width: 5em; color: #ffffff !important;vertical-align: middle !important;"> B </td>
   <td style="text-align:left;width: 12em; color: #ffffff !important;vertical-align: middle !important;"> 80%-89% </td>
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   <td style="text-align:center;width: 5em; width: 5em; color: #ffffff !important;vertical-align: middle !important;"> C </td>
   <td style="text-align:left;width: 12em; color: #ffffff !important;vertical-align: middle !important;"> 70–79% </td>
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   <td style="text-align:center;width: 5em; width: 5em; color: #ffffff !important;vertical-align: middle !important;"> D </td>
   <td style="text-align:left;width: 12em; color: #ffffff !important;vertical-align: middle !important;"> 60–69% </td>
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   <td style="text-align:left;width: 12em; color: #ffffff !important;vertical-align: middle !important;"> &lt; 60% </td>
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# Things We <b>Don't</b> Cover About Research

- Purpose

- Audience

- Guiding Questions

- Interpretation of Findings

- Reporting of Results

- Usage of Findings

- Professional Standards & Ethics

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# Things We <b>Do</b> Cover About Research

- (Some) Analyses

- Approaches

- Designs

- Data Collection

- Methodology

- Reliability

- Validity

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# Keep These in Mind

<i>Research</i>

- is a systematic process of collecting and logically analyzing information (data) for some purpose

- does not care about your feelings or views
  
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- demands ethics and trust or we're all screwed

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Types
  >- Descriptive
  >- Relational
  >- Causal
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Purposes
  >- Theoretical
  >- Empirical
  >- Probabilistic
  >- Causational
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# Common Sense v. Science!

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 Common Sense - Grounded in how we come to know the world

- Subjective
  
  - Objective
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Science - Grounded in prominent theoretical constructs

>- Epistemology
  
  >- Methodology
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# How do we know things?

- Beliefs

- Intuitions

- Logic

- Opinions of others

- Personal experiences

- Scientific method

- Sensory experiences

- Traditions

- Failures!

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# Human Nature v. Science!

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Human Nature
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Science
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- usually observations are inaccurate
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- ensure observations are accurate
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- generalize from a few cases
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- explicitly sample for generalizing
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- observe selectively to see what we’re looking for
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- consciously decide what and how to observe
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- make things up to fulfill gaps
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- base conclusions on evidence alone
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- get personally and emotionally involved
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- respect scientific norms regardless of opinions
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- form views with little or no revisions and stick with them
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- constantly revise views
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- think we can figure out everything
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- accept that not everything is knowable
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## That's it. Questions?