• Research project pitch: short written proposal + presentation 10%
• Final project presentation 15%
• Final written project report 30%
• NOTE: Regular attendance and active, supportive participation in class and team activities is necessary to pass; else could result in point reduction/no-pass. In particular, failure to contribute sufficiently to in-class activities, individual and team assignments, failure to responsibly do your part of the teamwork, or failure to reliably attend and contribute in team meetings can result in additional point reductions beyond the participation & peer evaluation. NOTE: Any kind of plagiarism or other forms of academic dishonesty will automatically result in zero points for that assignment, and potentially in more serious consequences, including course failure. null%
• OLI learning outcomes 40%
• Participation 5%

NOTES:

Our goal will be to give SIAT students and others the tools that they need to understand, critically evaluate, and participate in the rhetoric of science. At the conclusion of the course students should be able to evaluate the validity, reliability and relevance of quantitative analyses, to generate a well-formed research question and a chain of inference that argues an answer to that question based upon quantitative tests of statistical significance that they conduct using statistical software.

Teaching/learning activities may include

• Interactive lecturing and demonstrations
• Group discussions (in-class and online chat- and discussing forums)
• Short in-class writing activities
• Weekly reading, writing and/or revision/reviewing assignments
• Online and in-class tutorials on experimental design, probability, and statistics
• Peer-reviewing (formal & informal)
• Student presentations (including elevator pitch presentations and final project presentation)

Several items provided in this course and through Canvas or other means have been copied of the Copyright Act as enumerated in SFU Appendix R30.04A - Application of Fair Dealing under Policy R30.04. You may not distribute, e-mail or otherwise communicate these materials to any other person.

REQUIREMENTS:

There are no formal pre-requisites, although IAT804 will be quite useful. If you have never taken any quantitative research methods courses before, make sure to reserve enough time for reading especially during the first half of the course.