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Research Workshops

The Research Office is committed to providing the Landmark community with information about research projects, common research methods, and other research topics. A series of research workshops were offered from Fall 05-Spring 2007. The attached documents are available for reference from this series. For further questions please contact the Research Office at X6807.

Handouts from Past Workshops

Spring 2007

 

April 6 Agenda

  1. Research Workshop Notes
  2. Survey Guidlines (activator)
  3. Faculty and Staff Activities Survey
  4. Survey Design Worksheet

March 9th, Grants: Federal, State, Foundation, and Mini-grants

Updated Schedule March 23, 2007 [pdf]

January 26 Agenda [pdf]

  1. Updates to workshop schedule
  2. Characteristics of "good" research
  3. Research designs and methods
  4. Research design activity

Fall 2006

September 8th [pdf]

  1. Research notes on goals and roles
  2. Handout on general terms and concepts
  3. Framework for research workshops
  4. Incomplete review of research themes, resources, and initiatives

September 22nd [pdf]

  1. Goals, roles, and expectations for this series
  2. Defining research
  3. Current topics of interest
  4. Sample studies
    1. Experiment
    2. Quasi-experiment
    3. Survey
    4. Questionnaire
    5. Interview
    6. Focus group
    7. Case study

October 20th [pdf]

  1. Selecting research questions
  2. Developing hypotheses
  3. Understanding variables

November 10th [pdf]

  1. Differences between research and evaluation
  2. Literature and data available from LCIRT

November 17th [pdf]

  1. Conducting literature reviews
  2. Theories and constructs that shape our current knowledge and approach

December 1st [pdf]

  1. Overview of Literature Review Workshop
  2. Search Alerts in Academic Search Premier
  3. Journal Alerts in Academic Search Premier