21 Course meetings

POL 138 Final exam: Tues May 6 from 7:50am to 9:50am

Mon Jan 13

• In-class assignment: Practice 00A INTRODUCTION

• Covered course notes through 1.6 “Proportions, percentages, and percentage points”

• Canvas assignment: OC Batch 01: A01 Syllabus

Wed Jan 15

• Covered course notes through the fourth practice item under 2.6 “The normal distribution”

• Canvas assignment: OC Batch 02: A01a Basic tools of quantitative reasoning and OC Batch 02: A01b Basic tools of quantitative reasoning

Mon Jan 20

• No class: MLK Day

Wed Jan 22

• In-class assignment: Practice 02A SAMPLING

• Covered course notes through the end of Chapter 2

Mon Jan 27

• Covered course notes from 3.1 through 3.6 (Hypothesis testing)

• Canvas assignment: OC Batch 03: A02a Sampling

Wed Jan 29

• Covered course notes through the end of Chapter 3 (p-values)

• In-class practice: Practice P-VALUES REVIEW

Mon Feb 3

• Covered course notes for Chapter 4 (Linear regression)

• Canvas assignment: OC Batch 04: A03a p-values and OC Batch 04: A04a Linear regression

• In-class practice: Practice Linear Regression

• So far we have covered all the material for Exam 1. Feel free to work on Practice Exam 1. Note, though, that completing Practice Exam 1 is not for points.

Wed Feb 5

• Covered course notes for Chapter 5 (Alternate explanations) and Chapter 6 (Randomized experiments)

• In-class practice: Practice LINEAR REGRESSION 3 (not part 2 yet)

Mon Feb 10

• In-class practice: Exam 1 Practice

• Canvas assignments: OC Batch 05: A05a Alternate explanations, OC Batch 05: A06a Randomized experiments, and Bonus survey 1

Wed Feb 12

• Exam 1

Mon Feb 17

• Covered course notes for Chapter 7 (Non-random comparisons) and the part of Chapter 8 (Statistical control) until section 8.2 Multiple linear regression

• In-class practice: Pages 1 and 2 of POL 138 Practice STATISTICAL CONTROL.docx

• Canvas assignments: OC Batch 06: A07a Non-random comparisons

Wed Feb 19

• Covered course notes for Chapter 8 (Statistical control)

• In-class practice: Pages 3 and 4 of POL 138 Practice STATISTICAL CONTROL.docx

Mon Feb 24

• Nothing in the course notes

• In-class practice: POL 138 Considerations about statistical control.docx, POL 138 Exam 2 practice.docx, and pages 5 and 6 of POL 138 Practice STATISTICAL CONTROL.docx,

• Canvas assignments: OC Batch 07: A08a Statistical control

Wed Feb 26

• Nothing in the course notes

• In-class practice: POL 138 Exam 1 Most missed.docx, and pages 1, 2, 3, and 4 of POL 138 Practice MISCELLANY.docx

Mon Mar 3

• Covered course notes for 9.1 Peer review and 9.2 Pre-registration

• In-class practice: POL 138 More Exam 2 practice.docx

• No Canvas assignments

Wed Mar 5

• Exam 2

Mon Mar 17

• Covered course notes for 9.3 Meta-analysis

• In-class practice: Pages 1 through 4 of POL 138 Threats to inference.docx

• Canvas assignments: OC Batch 09: A09 Imperfect indicators of quality and Bonus quiz 1

Wed Mar 19

• In-class practice: items 12 through 29 in the packet POL 138 Threats to inference.docx

Mon Mar 24

• In-class practice: items 30 through 43 in the packet POL 138 Threats to inference.docx

• No Canvas assignments this week

Wed Mar 26

• In-class practice: items 44 through 47 in the packet POL 138 Threats to inference.docx

• Covered course notes for 10 (Threats to inference 1), from 10.1 through 10.4 (Using a less relevant measure)

Mon Mar 31

• Finished course notes for 10 (Threats to inference 1) and covered 11 (Threats to inference 2) up through most of 11.8 (Participant effects)

• Canvas assignments: OC Batch 11: Threats to inference 1

Wed April 2

• Finished course notes for 11 (Threats to inference 2)

• In-class practice: items 48 through 57 in the packet POL 138 Threats to inference.docx

Mon April 7

• Finished course notes for 12 (Ethical issues)

• Covered enough Microsoft Excel for the Excel assignment

• In-class practice: first two pages of POL 138 Practice for Exam 3.docx

• Canvas assignments: OC Batch 12: Threats to inference 2, OC Batch 12: Ethical issues, and (posted a week early) OC Batch 13: A13 Meta-analysis in Microsoft Excel

Wed April 9

• In-class practice: second two pages of POL 138 Practice for Exam 3.docx

• In-class practice: final two pages of the packet POL 138 Threats to inference.docx

• In-class practice: review of Tigges et al. p-value bonus.docx

Mon April 14

• In-class practice: POL 138 More review.docx

Wed April 16

• Exam 3

Mon April 21

• Prepare for OC14 using the practice page POL 138 R CODE DATA VISUALIZATION

• Canvas assignment: OC Batch 14: Data visualization in R

Wed April 23

• Student evaluations. Stata practice. In-class bonus assignment

Mon April 28

• Discussion of R simulations in the course notes

• Prepare for the final exam using the practice pages POL 138 Practice for the Final Exam 1 to 3

Wed April 30

• In-class bonus review assignment, final two pages of this file