Online Tutorials
A Lab Manual for POL242y: Introduction to Research Methods was developed through the generous support of the University of Toronto's Information Technology Courseware Development Fund.
Pol242y Lab Manual:
1. Studying the Social Part A Part B
2. Data Description Part A Part B
3. Measures of Association Part A Part B Part C
4. Creating an Index Part A Part B
5. Testing Significance Part A Part B Part C
6. Correlation
7. Elaboration
8. Regression
10. Dummy Variables and Interaction
12. Reports
The Lab Manual was prepared by Joseph Fletcher, Thineish Ramanathan, Sebastien Dallaire, Michael Szala Anna Saini and Renan Levine.
Babbie's View of Social Research
Reliability with CES2000 & CES2004
A sample bi-variate report
A second sample bivariate report
Syntax Keyed to deVaus Chapters
Online quizzes keyed to the
Chapters in Babbie's text are available at:
http://sociology.wadsworth.com/book/babbie/students.html
On-line materials keyed to Babbie and Benaquisto's book:http://www.fundamentalssocialresearch.nelson.com/
Craig McKie's social science website is
located at:
http://www.socsciresearch.com
Troubleshooting in POL242
Statistical Jeopardy: http://www.usi.edu/libarts/socio/stats.htm
David Stockburger's Introductory
Statistics Text http://www.psychstat.smsu.edu/introbook/sbk00.htm
Modelling Frequency and Count Data http://emedia.netlibrary.com/reader/reader.asp?product_id=22944
A sample research design prepared by a student for Pol242 design.htm
The Pol 242 Student Survey: pol242yEsurvey.htm
Calculator for Probability Distributions http://graphpad.com/quickcalcs/probability1.cfm
Exact Probabilities (choose frequencies) & Plots (choose distributions) http://faculty.vassar.edu/~lowry/VassarStats.html
Correlation Put-point demo www.stat.uiuc.edu/courses/stat100//java/guess/PPApplet.html
Regression least squares demonstration http://www.keypress.com/sketchpad/javasketchpad/gallery/pages/least_squares.php
Tri-Council Ethics Policy Statement http://www.pre.ethics.gc.ca/english/policystatement/policystatement.cfm
Additional Ethics Policy Statement at Ted Palys' site http://www.sfu.ca/~palys
Evaluation Research http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods//
Advice on Making Oral Presentions