Mass Communication Research

Mass Communication Research
Table of Contents

Page Index
Course Materials	Statistics	Labs
Assignments	Survey Materials	News Releases

Course Materials
Course Overview	Why Study Research?	Uses of Research
AAPOR Standards	Finding Polls	Research Procedures
Elements of Research	Research Ethics	Measurement & Levels of Measurement
Levels of Measurement — Rules of Thumb	Qualitative Research	Hypothesis Testing
Steps in Statistical Hypothesis Testing	Logic of Statistical Hypothesis Testing	Why Test Hypotheses?
Survey Research		Sampling
Content Analysis	Computerized Content Analysis	Experimental Research
Print Media Research	Ratings Research	Glossary of 300 Terms
Statistics
Intro to Statistics	Descriptive Statistics for News Research	Chi-square
t-test	ANOVA	Correlation
Labs
CourseInfo Instructions	Using CourseInfo's Discussion Board	First Day Class Survey
Finding News and Poll Data	Sample Poll Press Release	Sample News Story
NCSS menu	NCSS Rules of Thumb	Re-coding Data
Descriptive Statistics Lab 1	Descriptive Statistics Lab 2	Chi-square lab
T-test lab	ANOVA lab	Correlation Lab
SPSS menu	SPSS Rules of Thumb	Coding Data
Descriptive Statistics Lab 1	Descriptive Statistics Lab 2	Chi-square lab
T-test lab	ANOVA lab	Correlation Lab
Assignments
Group Project 1: Finding and Evaluating Polls	Group Project 2: News Release	Project_2 Codebook
Group Project 3: Report of Student Issues	Group Project 4: Designing Survey Questions	Final Group Project
Survey Materials
Spring 2009 Survey Report	Spring 2009 Online Survey	Spring 2009 Codebook
Spring 2009 Frequencies	Spring 2009 Descriptive Statistics	Spring 2009 ANOVA
Spring 2009 Independent t-Tests	Spring 2009 Paired t-Tests	Spring 2009 Correlation
Spring 2002 Codebook	Spring 2002 Descriptives	Spring 2002 Administration Instructions
Fall 2001 Codebook	Fall 2001 Descriptives	Fall 2001 Administration Instructions
Spring 2001 Codebook	Fall 2000 Survey Codebook	Spring 2000 Codebook
Spring 2000 Frequencies	Fall 1999 Survey Report	Fall 1999 Survey Codebook
Presentations/News Releases
Spring 2009 Survey Report	Spring 2009 APA Survey Overview	Spring 2009 Survey Respondents
Spring 2009 APA - Courses	Spring 2009 APA - Graduates	Spring 2009 APA - Applicants
Spring 2009 APA - Expected Training	Spring 2009 APA - Recent Hires	Spring 2009 Conclusions
Fall 2001 9-11	Fall 2001 UTK Budget Crisis	Fall 2001 UTK Master Plan
Fall 2001 UTK Party School	Fall 2001 Student Analysis	Spring 2000 Survey Report

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