URBP 204A
Course Learning Objectives
The department has approved official course learning objectives for this course. Learning objectives support the overall goal of each course and describe what information students should know, or what skills students should have learned by the end of the course.
Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to:
- Identify the overall strengths and weaknesses of quantitative, qualitative, experimental, and survey research methods; and assess which research method/s, given the resource constraints, are most appropriate for answering the research question.
- Develop research question worthy of informing public policy, and identify the statistical tool appropriate for answering the research question. The tools learned in this class are: Tests between Means of Different Groups, Tests Between Means of Related Groups, ANOVA, Factorial ANOVA, Correlation, and One- and Two- Factor Chi Square.
- Develop survey research questions that conform to conventional best practices in survey design.
- Critically evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of various non-probability and probability-based sampling techniques.
- Present quantitative data and results in text and graphic formats.
- Identify the policy implications of statistical test results.
- Read a research article that uses multiple regression method
and:
- Identify the aim of the paper;
- Identify the data sources;
- Identify the dependent and the independent variables;
- Using the regression result table, identify the level of statistical significance, and the direction and magnitude of the impact of each independent variable on the dependent variable.
