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 02 09:00AM | Mon, Jan 06 11:55PM |
| Assignment 1 | Wed, Jan 08 09:00AM | Mon, Jan 13 11:55PM |
| Assignment 2 | Wed, Jan 15 09:00AM | Mon, Jan 20 11:55PM |
| Assignment 3 | Wed, Jan 22 09:00AM | Mon, Jan 27 11:55PM |
| Milestone 1 | Sun, Feb 02 11:55PM | |
| DAM 1 | Wed, Jan 29 09:00AM | Mon, Feb 03 11:55PM |
| Survey 2 | Wed, Feb 05 09:00AM | Sun, Feb 09 11:55PM |
| 1:1 meeting | Tue, Feb 11 05:00PM | |
| Exam | Thu, Feb 13 02:30PM | Thu, Feb 13 03:50PM |
| DAM 2 | Wed, Feb 12 09:00AM | Mon, Feb 17 11:55PM |
| Milestone 2 | Sun, Mar 02 11:55PM | |
| DAM 3 | Wed, Feb 26 09:00AM | Mon, Mar 03 11:55PM |
| DAM 4 | Wed, Mar 05 09:00AM | Mon, Mar 10 11:55PM |
| Course evaluation | Fri, Mar 14 11:50PM | |
| Final paper | Fri, Mar 21 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% |
| 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.