Research Design Explained
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• Chapter Overview
  • Chapter Outline
    
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  • Professor-oriented summary
  • Key Terms
    
  • Key Issues

• Lectures
  
  • Lecture 3.1: Introduction to operational definitions
    
  • Lecture 3.2: Reliability
    
  • Lecture 3.3: Finding, refining, and devising measures
    
  • Lecture 3.4: Devising a valid measure
    
  • Powerpoint lecture/Chapter outline

• Handouts
  
  • Handout 3.1: Interpreting reliability coefficients
    
  • Handout 3.2: Measures of internal consistency
    
  • Handout 3.3: Coding sheet for content analysis of personal ads
    
  • Handout 3.4: Reporting on articles that attempt to validate a scale.
    
  • Handout with visual highlighting relationships between reliability and validity
    
  • "Quiz" over reliability-validity handout
    
  • Crossword puzzle
    

• Thirteen Class Activities/Discussion Topics
  
  • Discuss the history of a measure
    
  • Have students critique a measure
    
  • Have students report on the validity of a scale
    
  • Have students generate their own operational definitions
    
  • Have students create their own scale
    
  • Let students code personal ads
    
  • Evaluate Facilitated Communication
    
  • Theory and measurement
    
  • Debate the validity of self-report
    
  • Discuss reliability
    
  • Discuss psychological tests
    
  • Have students practice concept mapping
    
  • Discuss subject biases