Quantitative Methods in Psychology (01:830:200)

Lecture: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:40 - 8:00 PM, LSH Auditorium

Recitations:

Section 11: Wednesdays, 3:20 - 4:40 PM, LSH B267
Section 12: Thursdays, 3:20 - 4:40 PM, LSH B117
Section 13: Thursdays, 5:00 - 6:20 PM, LSH B115
Section 14: Tuesdays, 8:10 - 9:30 PM, LCB 103

Dr. John Ackroff

ackroff@rci.rutgers.edu

Office: Tillett 613

Phone: (732) 445-2635

Fax: (732) 445-0036

Office Hours: Wednesdays, 1:15 – 2:30, and by appointment

Teaching Assistants

Sections 11 and 14: Kenia Castellanos (keniac@rci.rutgers.edu), Office Hours Tuesdays, 5:30 - 6:30, and by appointment, TIL 411 .

Sections 12 and 13: Azi Grysman (agrysman@rci.rutgers.edu), Office Hours Mondays, 2:30 - 4:30, and by appointment, TIL 407.

Required Course Materials

Karlin, Robert A. Behavioral Statistics in Plain English. 5th Edition - Revision 1

Please make the following corrections to the text.

Copies of the book are on reserve at the Kilmer Area Library.

We will also be using CPS RFclickers from eInstruction.

If you already have one, you can reuse it for this course. You must have the "RF" model, which allows you to enter numbers as well as letters.

Both are available at New Jersey Books, 108 Somerset St.

Copies of the text are on reserve at the Kilmer Area Library.

A middle level scientific calculator (in the $10 - $25 range, with the ability to take square roots, and to square numbers and store them in several registers) would be useful. A more expensive one will not necessarily be better since you will have to show your calculations on exams and homework problems.

Register your clicker:

Go to www.einstruction.com.
Click the "Students" button at the top of the page.
Select "Rutgers University" from the drop-down menu in the right-hand pane, and click on "Choose Site".
Enter your email address.
Turn on your clicker. Your serial number should be displayed for several seconds. Enter it in the appropriate field and click on "Submit".
If you already have a CPS Username and Password, enter them. Otherwise, click on the "Create your account" link and create your account.
Enroll in the course. The Course ID is I43220A788. Please be sure to enter your RUID -- NOT your NetID -- in the "Student ID Number" field. You will be asked for credit card information in order to pay a $15 fee.
You will receive an email that contains, among other things, your "Pad ID". This will allow you to verify that your responses have been received while the questions are being displayed in class.

If you have any problems registering your clicker or enrolling in the course, please contact eInstruction technical support at (888) 333-7532.

Syllabus

The Syllabus contains information about how the course is structured and how various activities contribute toward your grade. This checklist will help you remember which exercises are due when, and keep track of which ones you've completed.

General Course Information

Copies of the class PowerPoint Presentations will be available here before each class meeting. These presentations are intended to help you follow the structure of the lecture; they are not intended to be a substitute for attending class. Here are some tips on Printing PowerPoint Presentations

Chapter Exams will be available on-line. You can access them using your Rutgers NetID and password at ecollege.rutgers.edu. Alternatively, you may access them via rutgersonline.net; using your NetID and your password which is your date of birth in YYYYMMDD format.
You should be able to access the site after September 15.

You are responsible for any announcements I send to the class via email. You may use this link to update the address used for class email.

Walk-in tutoring is available through the Rutgers Learning Centers. Check the schedule to find out where and when.

Exams and Grading

The exam dates are shown in the schedule below. Each exam is given in two parts: a conceptual part, consisting of multiple choice and/or essay questions, and a computational part. You may use your book, notes, and calculator for the computational part, but not for the conceptual part. You may not use any electronic device other than your calculator. You may not use your cell phone calculator.

The first two exams are given on two nights: the conceptual part is given during the regular class meeting on Tuesday night, and the computational part is given the following night, Wednesday, 8th period (8:10 - 9:30). The conceptual and computational parts of the final are given during the regularly scheduled final exam, shown on the schedule below.

If you have a schedule conflict with an exam, you may be allowed to take the exam before the scheduled date at the discretion of the instructor. If you miss an exam, you will be allowed to take a make-up exam only if you present a note from your Dean's office verifying that you missed the exam due to an excused absence. This note should also indicate a reasonable time frame in which you will be able to make up the exam. You should give this note to the instructor within 1 week of the scheduled date of the exam. If you have a legitimate conflict for a Wednesday, you must present documentation prior to the exam, and take the computational part of the exam during your recitation section the week of the exam.

If an exam is cancelled or postponed on the day of the exam, there will be a member of the Psychology Department in the room at the scheduled time to make the announcement. Notices posted on doors or the blackboard are likely to be hoaxes.

Grading is described completely in the Syllabus. All grades will be posted to SAS Gradebook.

Attendance and Correspondence Policies:

Attendance: You should attend all meetings of all of your classes. If you arrive late or must leave before class is over, please sit near a door and try to be as inconspicuous as possible. It is distracting to everyone to have people walking in and out of the classroom during class.

Classes are held according to the schedule below as long as the University is open. If the weather appears to be threatening, you can check the Campus Operating Status here.
Classroom Etiquette: Please turn off all cell phones, etc., before class begins.

If you wish to use a laptop computer to take notes, that is fine. If you wish to use a laptop computer to surf the web, play games, IM your friends, etc., I would suggest you go to the nearest Student Center. This advice also applies to having side discussions with your classmates, reading newspapers, doing puzzles, etc.
Questions: I encourage you to ask questions during class. If something is unclear, or if you have a question related to the material being discussed, please ask your question then. Chances are that some of your classmates would also like some additional discussion of the topic.

Because of schedule-related issues, I prefer not to answer questions before or after class.
Email: I try to answer email promptly. Having said that,
- Please use a Subject that gives me some idea what you are writing about. This is especially important if you send mail from an account other than eden. Mail from sexgoddess@aol.com with a subject of "hello" is likely to be considered spam and deleted unread.
- If you ask me a question whose answer is on the course web page or Syllabus, my reply is likely to say that.
- If you ask me a question about your standing in the course, please include your name and which course and section you are enrolled in.
- Please re-read the section on "Questions" above. I realize that there are times when you are reviewing notes after class and/or before an exam when you will discover that you have a question. But it is in everyone's best interest for you to ask your questions in class, rather than after the fact, if you have a question while class is in session.
- As stated on the course web page, you are responsible for any announcements, etc., I send to the class via email. Emails are sent to the address that appears when your name is entered into "Search People" on the "Search Rutgers" page. There is a link on the course web page that allows you to update this address.

PowerPoint Presentations

I consider the course materials used for lecture content and the course web page to be my personal intellectual property or the intellectual property of other parties, as identified. I view the sale or purchase of these materials as a violation of copyright laws.

Lecture Schedule

Date	Lecture	Due	Assignment for next class
Tuesday, Sep 2	Class business and basic math test		Get book, read Syllabus and Chapter 1. Register your clicker.
Thursday, Sep 4	The basics: Mean, variance, & standard deviaton		Read Chapter 2.
Tuesday, Sep 9	Frequency Distributions: Actual and Theoretical	Chapter 1 CPE. (Each CPE should be stapled; keep a copy!)	Read Chapter 3.
Thursday, Sep 11	The Normal Curve	Chapter 2 CPE.	Read Chapter 4.
Tuesday, Sep 16	z scores are THE scores	Chapter 3 CPE.	Review Chapter 4.
Thursday, Sep 18	The standard error of the mean and Confidence Intervals (Begin hard material.)	CPE 4.1 - 4.6	Read Chapter 5.
Tuesday, Sep 23	Degrees of freedom and establishing population parameters	CPE 4.7 - 4.9	Read Chapter 6.
			Check your login on rutgersonline.net
Thursday, Sep 25	The t distribution, estimated CIs, and hypothesis testing	Chapter 5 CPE.	Read Chapter 7.
Tuesday, Sep 30	No Class, but all recitations meet this week.
Thursday, Oct 2	Correlation 1	Chapter 6 CPE.	Review Chapter 7.
Tuesday, Oct 7	Correlation 2		Read Chapter 8.
Thursday, Oct 9	No Class, but all recitations meet this week.
Tuesday, Oct 14	Regression 1	Chapter 7 CPE.	Review Chapter 8.
Thursday, Oct 16	Regression 2 and residual variance and the standard error of the estimate		Review the null hypothesis, p levels, etc.
Tuesday, Oct 21	Hypothesis testing: H₀ and H₁, individual differences, and the limits of inference in correlational research		Review for midterm.
Thursday, Oct 23	Review for midterm -- Chapters 1 - 8	Chapter 8 CPE.
	Exam Policies, Tips, and a few more review slides.
Tuesday, Oct 28	Midterm -- Chapters 1 - 8.	Conceptual part.
Wednesday, Oct 29	Midterm -- Chapters 1 - 8.	Computational part.	Read Chapter 9.
LSH Aud, 8:10 - 9:30 PM
Thursday, Oct 30	One-way independent groups ANOVA 1		Review Chapter 9.
Tuesday, Nov 4	One-way independent groups ANOVA 2		Read Chapter 10.
Thursday, Nov 6	Factorial ANOVA 1	Chapter 9 CPE.	Review Chapter 10.
Tuesday, Nov 11	Factorial ANOVA 2		Review Chapters 9 and 10
Thursday, Nov 13	ANOVA Review		Review ANOVA for exam
Tuesday, Nov 18	ANOVA Exam	Conceptual part.
Wednesday, Nov 19	ANOVA Exam	Computational part.	Read Chapter 11.6 through 11.9.
LSH Aud, 8:10 - 9:30 PM
Thursday, Nov 20	Dunnett's t		Read Chapter 11.10 through the end.
Tuesday, Nov 24	Tukey's HSD		Read Chapter 13.
Thursday, Nov 27	No Class
Tuesday, Dec 2	Statistical assupmtions, ordinal data, nominal data, and F_MAX	CPE 11.3 - 11.7	Read Chapter 14.
Thursday, Dec 4	Chi Square	Chapter 13 CPE.	Review for Final
Tuesday, Dec 9	Last class. Review for final (cumulative).	Chapter 14 CPE.
Tuesday, Dec 16	Final Exam, 8:00 PM

Recitation Schedule

NOTE: Recitation sections do not meet until the week of September 15.

Week of	Topic	Chapters
September 15	Basics and the normal curve	Chapters 1 - 3
September 22	z scores, scale scores, standard errors, CIs, and df	Chapters 4, 5
September 29	t scores, df, standard errors, and CIs with t	Chapters 5, 6
October 6	Correlation	Chapter 7
October 13	Regression and the null hypothesis	Chapter 8
October 20	Review for the midterm exam
October 27	Computational part of Midterm Exam for students with documented conflicts
November 3	Single factor designs: F tests and the t test	Chapter 9
November 10	Factorial ANOVA	Chapter 10
November 17	Computational part of ANOVA exam for students with documented conflicts
December 1	t-tests and F_MAX; Chi square	Chapters 11, 13, and 14
	EXTRA CREDIT DUE THIS RECITATION
December 8	Chi square; review

Online Exam Schedule

Chapter	Available Online	Corrections Due
1	September 15 - October 6	Recitation 4, week of 10/6
2	September 15 - October 6	Recitation 4, week of 10/6
3	September 15 - October 6	Recitation 4, week of 10/6
4	September 22 - October 13	Recitation 5, week of 10/13
5	September 22 - October 13	Recitation 5, week of 10/13
6	September 22 - October 13	Recitation 5, week of 10/13
7	October 6 - October 20	Recitation 6, week of 10/20
8	October 13 - October 27	Turn in at beginning of exam Tuesday night 10/28.
9	October 27 - November 17	Turn in at beginning of lecture Tuesday night 11/25.
10	November 3 - November 24	Turn in at beginning of lecture Tuesday night 11/25.
11	No online exam
12	No online exam
13	November 24 - December 16	No corrections allowed
14	November 24 - December 16	No corrections allowed