02+Methodology

=Tuesday, January 04, 2011=

Methodology
· Experimental Design o DV’s versus IV’s o Experimental control versus post hoc statistical control · Types of data (general: qualitative/quantitative; specific: discrete, discrete orderable, continuous) · Measurement o Construct Validity § Measurement Validity Types § Idea of Construct Validity § Convergent & Discriminant Validity § Threats to Construct Validity o Reliability § True Score Theory § Measurement Error § Theory of Reliability § Types of Reliability § Reliability & Validity · Surveys · Probability Samples o Simple random sample o Stratified random sample o Cluster sampling

Readings
Wikibooks: Introduction to Sociology/Sociological Methods. [] Campbell and Stanley pp. 1-26 (pdf) Online statistics primer: Christopher L. Heffner, Statistics Primer ( [] ). Experimental Methods: [] Internal Validity: [] External Validity: [] The True Experiment: [] Types of Research: [] Measurement: [] Validity: [] Reliability: [] True Score Theory: [] Estimated True Scores and the Confidence Interval (pdf) Reliability: [|http://www1.appstate.edu/~bacharachvr/3100%20reliability.pdf] Validity: [|http://www1.appstate.edu/~bacharachvr/3100%20validity.pdf] The Two Disciplines of Scientific Psychology, Lee J. Cronbach (1957) []