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- The additional exam has been graded and the new final results have been calculated. You can find the results on this page.
- The additional exam will take place on Thursday January 5.
If you have already passed the course but want to partake in
the exam, please contact me first.
- The list of material that you have to study for the additional exam is:
- Book:
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 6 (except page 186)
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13 (page 337-374, just before "Factor Scaling")
- Chapter 16 (Paragraph 16.5 only)
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18 (except: page 558, section "Type II error";
page 572, section "Non-parametric test"; page 579,
section "Non-parametric test"; page 581, section
"Non-parametric test")
- Chapter 19 (except pages 608-610; you also do not need to study page 601, section "Predictions" and the top half of page 602)
- Handouts:
- Handouts of all Statistics lectures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
and 7. (From lecture 4, you do not need to study slides
49-53 about Cohen's kappa).
- Handouts of the Methods lectures 1 (What is Research),
2 (Only part II: Measurement and Scales), 3 (Survey
research), 4 (Sampling and Experiments) and 6 (Case
Study).
- All exercises from the exercises classes.
- There will be an opportunity to inspect your end-of-term exam results on Wednesday Nov 30 between 13:15-15:00 in BBL-518.
- The results of the end-of-term exam have been calculated
and the final papers for the research project have been
evaluated. You can find all the grades and the final grade
for the course on this
page.
- The re-exam has been rescheduled to Thursday Jan 5, between 09:00 and 12:00, room BBL-023.
- The list of material that you have to study for the end-of-term exam is (recent changes to previous version are marked in red):
- Book:
- Chapter 6 (except page 186)
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 18 (except: page 558, section "Type II error";
page 572, section "Non-parametric test"; page 579,
section "Non-parametric test"; page 581, section
"Non-parametric test")
- Chapter 19 (except pages 608-610; you also do not need to study page 601, section "Predictions" and the top half of page 602)
- Handouts:
- Handouts of the Statistics lectures 4, 5, 6, and 7.
(From lecture 4, you do not need to study slides 49-53
about Cohen's kappa).
- Handouts of the Methods lectures 4 (Sampling and
Experiments) and 6 (Case Study). Since there
are no English handouts of the Design Research
lecture, these are not part of the material to study
for the exam.
- The exercises of week 6, 7 and 8.
- The material of the mid-term exam is not part of the final exam.
- I have made some corrections to lecture and exercise
materials. You can find the whole list here.
- Some corrections were made to the lambda's in the solutions to exercise 3 of Oct 20.
- Each student has to send a copy of his completed feedback form (be email) to the team of the paper in question. Per team the feedback forms must be bundled into one PDF and submitted into SUBMIT. The deadline as indicated in the SUBMIT system is the deadline for submission via SUBMIT and for providing the authors with feedback.
- There will be an opportunity to inspect your mid-term exam results on Thursday Oct 27 between 11:00-12:00 in BBL-518.
- The grades for the mid-term exam are online.
- The Statistics lecture that was originally planned for Mon
Oct 17 is moved to Thu Oct 20. The Methods lecture on
Reporting and Fraud is moved from Thu Oct 20 to Mon Oct 17.
This is essential material for all students participating in
a research project, so come to the lecture and/or read the
slides of the lecture carefully.
- The webpage with online questionnaires can be found here.
- Made a small correction
to the solution to exercise 3.c of the exercises of week 3.
- The procedure for the online surveys is as follows:
- Each team member gets assigned a unique number from 1 to
5 (or 1 to 6 for the two teams with 6 members). Teams have
to do these assignments themselves and must be able to
provide a list of team members and their respective
reference numbers, when required. I will request this list
only if necessary (see next bullit).
- To assure a high response rate the first two questions of every questionnaire must be: (1) What is your team name (2) What is your number within the team. This ensures that we know who to blame when the response is too low.
- Every team has to mail the URL that points to their online questionnaire to me before the Submit deadline. I also require a PDF submission of the questionnaire for the same deadline.
- On Monday October 10 I will compose a webpage with links to all the questionnaires and post this on this webpage. Students are then required to fill in the questionnaires before Tuesday October 11 23:59h. This allows every team to start analysing the data on Wednesday.
- The number of questions per team is not allowed to exceed 25 (excluding the two required questions as mentioned above)
- For the discussion of the preliminary questionnaires in
the workshop of October 4 it is sufficient to bring 10
copies of each questionnaire for the other teams, so each
team will have two copies of each questionnaire.
- You are allowed and adviced to bring a calculator to the
midterm exam. A mobile phone, tablet computer or laptop is
not allowed. A scientific or graphical calculator is
allowed, but not necessary.
- The solutions to
the exercises of week 3 are online. I have also included an
extra document
which shows how you can do calculations with Table E.1.
- (29/09/2011) Some information about the midterm exam on Thursday October 6. The exam will have 19 multiple choice questions, and 6 open questions. The topics will be about 50% methods and 50% statistics. There is no mock exam to practice, but doing the exercises of weeks 2-4 is a good preparation. The material that you have to study is:
- Book:
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 6 (pages 179-185, just before "Calculating ... proportions' question")
- Chapter 13 (page 337-374, just before "Factor Scaling")
- Chapter 16 (Paragraph 16.5 only)
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18 (pages 551-565, just before "Non-parametric test")
- Handouts
- Handouts of the first three lectures of the Statistics track
- Handouts of the first three lectures of the Methods track (including the lecture on Survey Research, you may skip the slides that are in Dutch)
- The exercises of weeks 2-4.
- (27/09/2011) The list of formulas
and the tables with Z and
t-distribution that will be provided during the exam are
available online.
- (27/09/2011) The handouts
for the 2nd statistics lecture are online. I have made some
alterations to slides 33-35, that will hopefully clarify the
calculations.
- (23/09/2011) The handouts
of the lecture on survey research are online.
- (22/09/2011) The solutions to the exercises for week 2 are online.
- (20/09/2011) Handouts
of the 2nd methods lecture are online now.
- (16/09/2011) Two corrections were made to the first statistics lecure. See the corrections list.
- (15/09/2011) The solutions
to the first exercises are online.
- (14/09/2011) The instruction
manual for the workshops has been updated (the first
requirement for the conceptual model, as listed on page 4 is
more exact now: there should be at least one variable
measured by an interval or ratio scale). Both links to the
instruction manual (on the Structure and on the Material
pages) now link to the English version of the manual.
- (13/09/2011) The handouts of the first lecture are online,
and so are the exercises for the first exercise class
(practicum). See the Schedule
page.
- (12/09/2011) The list with groups can be found here. Look up the number
of the group you have been assigned to and find the correct
room on this schedule
(under werkcollege).
- (08/09/2011) This announcement message has been sent to
all registered students of the course.
- (30/08/2011) The website for INFOWO is up-to-date. The schedule has been updated for
the 2011 course and the instructions for the workshops has
been updated and translated (Look on the Structure page). The first
lecture will be on Monday 12 September.
- (08/07/2011) This is the website for INFOWO. It is
currently under construction. You can find the website of
the 2010 course here. Note
that from 2011 the course will be taught in English. This
implies, among other things, that the mandatory literature
has changed. Consult the education
page for more details. This website will be updated in
August.