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CSE 5800
Empirical Methods in Computer Science Seminar
Textbook
Our textbook will be How to Design and Evaluate Research in Education by Fraenkel & Wallen. Get the June 2000 4th edition (which is slightly different from the August 1999 4th Edition).The book has a website. http://w ww.mhhe.com/socscience/education/fw/. You can download powerpoint slides that summarize the book at this site. (I recommend going to the book itself, but the slides might be a stopgap until you can get the book.)
Seminar Minutes
- [Cem's minutes from 16 January 2002]
Presentations
Topic
Presenter
Date
Documents
Statistics Refresher
Pat
Not in class
[Link]
Evaluating research papers (aka "The good, the bad, and the ugly")
Becky
16 Jan 2002, 23 Jan 2002
Assignment [PDF] [Word]
Presentation [HTML with notes] [PowerPoint]
Sampling Techniques
Amit
30 Jan 2002
Case Studies
Pat
6 Feb 2002
[First lecture (powerpoint)] [Assignment] [Second Lecture (ppt)] ,[Definition of Case Study]
Interviewing Skills
Helayne
13 March 2002, 20 March 2002
Ethics
Nadim
10 April 2002, 17 April 2002
Demonstrative Research
Giri
No date yet
Documents
Threats to validity
Ibrahim
6 February 2002, 13 February 2002, 20 February 2002
Surveys
Lucia
20 march 2002, 27 March 2002
[Slides]
How do I know when my project is in trouble?
Attila
17 April 2002, 24 April 2002
Narrowing and focusing a research topic
(Your name here?)
Date
Documents
More research papers (review / evaluate)
(Your name here?)
Date
Documents
Control of variables in experiments
(Your name here?)
Date
Documents
Benchmarking
Ramon
3 April 2002
Interesting Links
- Cornell University, Research Methods resources. [http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/kb/contents.htm]
- University of Mass, CS650 Empirical Methods for Computer Science.
[Course Notes]
Ryan Knowles wrote the first version of this website. Thanks, Ryan.