Overview
The main goals of this class are to help you design, critique, code, and interpret rigorous regression analyses that investigate causal relationships. Each type of assignment in this class is designed to help you achieve one or more of these goals.
For more detailed instructions, please refer to the pages for the reading reactions, practice assignments and data-analytic memos, and the exam. For the final paper, you will produce a short research paper that uses regression analysis to investigate a causal relationship. You may either (a) write a replication paper and present extensions to an existing study, or (b) write a research paper that uses your own data. Throughout the quarter, there will be two milestones related to your research paper.
As you’ve seen on the syllabus and schedule pages, the assignment dates are as follows.
| Category | Release date | Due date |
|---|---|---|
| Survey 1 | Thu, Jan 01 09:00AM | Mon, Jan 05 11:55PM |
| Assignment 1 | Wed, Jan 07 09:00AM | Mon, Jan 12 11:55PM |
| Assignment 2 | Wed, Jan 14 09:00AM | Mon, Jan 19 11:55PM |
| Assignment 3 | Wed, Jan 21 09:00AM | Mon, Jan 26 11:55PM |
| Milestone 1 | Sun, Feb 01 11:55PM | |
| DAM 1 | Wed, Jan 28 09:00AM | Mon, Feb 02 11:55PM |
| Survey 2 | Wed, Feb 04 09:00AM | Sun, Feb 08 11:55PM |
| 1:1 meeting | Tue, Feb 10 05:00PM | |
| Exam | Thu, Feb 12 01:00PM | Thu, Feb 12 02:50PM |
| DAM 2 | Wed, Feb 11 09:00AM | Mon, Feb 16 11:55PM |
| Milestone 2 | Sun, Mar 01 11:55PM | |
| DAM 3 | Wed, Feb 25 09:00AM | Mon, Mar 02 11:55PM |
| DAM 4 | Wed, Mar 04 09:00AM | Mon, Mar 09 11:55PM |
| 1:1 discussion | Fri, Mar 13 05:00PM | |
| Course evaluation | Fri, Mar 13 11:50PM | |
| Final paper | Fri, Mar 20 11:55PM |
All reading reactions on Perusall are due by 11:55PM on the day before class. All times are in Pacific time.
Also, to recap what you already saw on the syllabus page, here is how each of your various course contributions and assignments contribute to your overall grade. There are no group assignments, and all contributions are graded individually.
| Category | Percent of final grade |
|---|---|
| Reading reactions | 9% |
| Participation, surveys, feedback | 6% |
| Assignments and DAMs | 30% (written, verbal) |
| Exam | 25% |
| Milestones 1 & 2 | 2% each |
| Your final paper | 26% |
When calculating the final assignment and DAM portion of the overall grade, I will drop the lowest score and use the remaining six scores. You may also skip one of the ten reading reactions. Thus, if you have an emergency that forces you to miss a submission, your grade will not be affected.
All grades will be posted through Canvas.
Bump-up policy: I reserve the right to “bump up” the grades of students who have made valuable contributions to the course in the in-person course and discussions/Perusall. This also applies to students who show tremendous progress and growth over the quarter.
Please refer to the syllabus page for the course policies.