Research Methods Tutorials

This page consists of tutorial Web projects put together by the graduate students in Program Evaluation and Planning at Cornell University. Each of these projects teaches a specific research methods topic that the student selected. Students were instructed to write these tutorials for undergraduate or graduate student audiences that are new to social research methods. Please send any comments or questions to Bill Trochim.

• The Layman's Guide to Social Research Methods (Colosi)
• Steps for a Succesful Policy Analysis (Barrientos)
• You're the Evaluator (Durgan)
• Validity (Rymarchyk)
• In Search of Truth Through Quantitative Reasoning (Maldonado)
• Ethical Dilemmas in Program Evaluation and Research Design (LaPolt)
• Before The Inquiry: Scoping the Research Terrain (Raymer)
• Identifying & Focusing Research Questions (Ruiz-Casares)
• Q & A: What is Concept Mapping? (Katsumoto)
• Epidemiology (Kim)
• Action Research (SenGupta)
• Qualitative Research Methods (Mensah-Dartey)
• Research Inferences: Understanding Validity, Validity Types, and Threats to Validity (Lo)
• The Use of Pattern Matching and Concept Mapping in Community Organizing Projects (King)

Sampling & External Validity

• Procedures in Sampling (Ojwaya)
• Sampling in Research (Mugo)

Measurement & Construct Validity

• Phenomenologists Behind Bars:  How to do qualitative research interviews with incarcerated youths (Bedard)
• Observational Field Research (Brown)
• Threats to Construct Validity (Dreibe)
• How Stable and Consistent Is Your Instrument? (Johnson)
• The NEP and Measurement Validity (Pelstring)
• Reliability Learning Maze (Levell)
• Validity Issues in Measuring Psychological Constructs: The Case of Emotional Intelligence (Young)

Research Design & Internal Validity

• Introduction to Research Design (Abrahams)
• Choosing a Research Design (Belue)
• Research Design and Mixed Methods Approaches: A Hands-On Experience (Sydenstricker)
• Threats to Internal Validity (Wells)
• Designs to Rule Out Threats to Internal Validity (Kong)
• Securing Internal Validity - How to Avoid the Threats (Burns)
• Single Group Threats to Internal Validity (Martin)
• Regression Toward the Mean (Cheng)
• Randomized Experiments (Hussain)
• Factorial Design (Coffin)
• Analysis of Covariance Experimental Designs (Lee)
• Correlational Research Designs (LaMar)
• The Basics of Regression-Discontinuity Designs (Nieves)
• The Regression-Discontinuity Design (Rwampororo)
• The Regression-Discontinuity Design in Teacher Education (Parapi)
• Validity and the Regression-Discontinuity (RD) Design (Walkley)
• The Nonequivalent Dependent Variables Design with Pattern Matching (Volz)
• Non-Experimental Design (Blakesley)
• STS Science Curriculum Research Designs (Chakane)
• Comparative Research Design Simulation for Program Evaluation (Rueda)
• Longitudinal Research (Cho)

Data Analysis & Conclusion Validity

• Statistical Analysis (Scott-Pierce)
• Introduction to Statistical Power (Biswas)
• The Decision Matrix on Trial: The OJ Simpson Trial Analogy (Becker)
• Multivariate Statistics: An Introduction (Flynn)
• The Concept of Analysis of Variance(Rehberg)
• Categorical Data Analysis (Cho)
• Analyzing the Multitrait Multimethod Matrix (Jabs)
  

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