ARTICLES FOR CRITIQUES
 

1/30/01 INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE
O'Sullivan & Rassel, CH. 1.
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2/6/01 RESEARCH DESIGN I
O'Sullivan & Rassel, CH. 2. RESEARCH DESIGN I: DESIGNS FOR DESCRIPTION
Articles:
1) Descriptive Design
Kingery, P. M., B. E. Pruitt, and G. Heuberger. 1996. "A Profile of Rural Texas Adolescents Who Carry Handguns to School." Journal of School Health 66(1):18-22.

2) Case Study Design
Speer, P. W., D. M. Gorman, E. W. Labouvie, and M. J. Ontkush. "Violent Crime and Alcohol Availability: Relationships in an Urban Community." Journal of Public Health Policy 9(3):303-318.

3) Cross-Sectional Design
Melkers, J. and J. C. Thomas. 1998. "What Do Administrators Think Citizens Think? Administrator Predictions as an Adjunct to Citizen Surveys." Public Administration Review 58(4):327-334.

4) Longitudinal Design
Greene, J. D. 1997. "How Much Privatization? A Research Note Examining the Use of Privatization by Cities in 1982 and 1992." Paper presented at the Western Political Science Association, Tucson, Arizona, March 13-15.
 

2/13/01 RESEARCH DESIGN II
O'Sullivan & Rassel, CH. 3. RESEARCH DESIGN II: DESIGNS FOR EXPLANATION
Articles:
1) Experimental Design
Medvene, L. J. and R. G. Bridge. 1990. "Using Television to Create More Favorable Attitudes Toward Community Facilities for Deinstitutionalized Psychiatric Patients." Journal of Applied Social Psychology 20(22):1863-1878.

2) Quasi-Experimental Design
Oldham, G. R., A. Cummings, L. J. Mischel, J. M. Schmidtke, and J. Zhou. 1995. "Listen While You Work? Quasi-Experimental Relations Between Personal Stereo Headset Use and Employee Work Responses." Journal of Applied Psychology 80 (5): 547-564.

3) Interrupted Time-Series Design
Maxwell, D. M. 1981. "Impact Analysis of the Raised Legal Drinking Age in Illinois." National Highway Transportation and Safety Administration Technical Report DOT HS-806-115.
 

2/20/01 REVIEW OF RESEARCH DESIGN
First Research Article Critique Due
 

2/27/01 VARIABLES, MEASUREMENT, and INDEXES
O'Sullivan & Rassel, CH. 4 VARIABLES & MEASUREMENT; Ch. 10 INDEXES
Articles:
1) Levels of Measurement
Steel, B. S. and R. L. Warner. 1990. "Job Satisfaction Among Early Labor Force Participants: Unexpected Outcomes in Public and Private Sector Comparisons." Review of Public Personnel Administration 10(3):4-22.

2) Index Construction
Rogers, L., M. D. Resnick, J. E. Mitchell, and R. W. Blum. 1997. "The Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status and Eating-Disordered Behaviors in a Community Sample of Adolescent Girls." International Journal of Eating Disorders 22:15-23.
 

3/6/01 SAMPLING AND ETHICS
O'Sullivan & Rassel, CH. 5 SAMPLING; Ch.8 ETHICS
Articles:
1) Random Sampling
Broman, C. L., V. L. Hamilton, and W. S. Hoffman. 1990. "Unemployment and Its Effects on Families: Evidence from a Plant Closing Study." American Journal of Community Psychology 18(5):643-659.

2) Systematic Sampling
Crewson, P. E. and B. S. Fisher. 1997. "Growing Older and Wiser: The Changing Skill Requirements of City Administrators." Public Administration Review 57(5):380-386.

3) Random Digit Dialing
Rosenberg, W. L. and W. R. Elliott. 19??. "Comparison of Media Use by Reporters and Public During Newspaper Strike." Journalism Quarterly 66(1):18-32 SRR.

4) Ethics
Connor, M.E., et al. 1994. "Reduction of Maternal-Infant Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 with Zidovudine Treatment." New England Journal of Medicine 331(18):1174-1180.

Whalen et al. 1997. A Trial of three Regimes to Prevent TB in Ugandan Adults Infected with HIV." New England Journal of Medicine 337(12):801-808.
 

3/13/01 INSTRUMENTATION & DATA COLLECTION
O'Sullivan & Rassel, CH. 6 DATA INSTRUMENTS; Ch. 7 DATA COLLECTION
Articles:
1) Questionnaire Design
Colsanto, D., E. Singer, and T. F. Rogers. 1992. "Context Effects on Responses to Questions about AIDS." Public Opinion Quarterly 56:515-518.

2) Focus Groups
Flores, E. T. and A. G. Mata. 1995. "Latino Male Attitudes and Behaviors on Their Spouses' and Partners' Cancer-Screening Behavior: Focus Group Findings." Journal of the National Cancer Institute Monographs No. 18:87-93.

3) Observations Methods
Sykes, R. E., R. D. Rowley, and J. M. Schaefer. 1993. "The Influence of Time, Gender, and Group Size on Heavy Drinking in Public Bars." Journal of Studies on Alcohol 54(2):133-138.

4) Qualitative Design
Parker, R. G. and M. Carballo. 1990. "Qualitative Research on Homosexual and Bisexual Behavior Relevant to HIV/AIDS." Journal of Sex Research 27(4):497-525.
 

3/20/01 SECONDARY DATA SOURCES & COMPUTERS
O'Sullivan & Rassel, CH. 9. SECONDARY DATA SOURCES & COMPUTERS
Articles:
1) Existing Data
Duncan, G. J., J. Boisjoly, and T. Smeedling. 1996. "How Long Does it Take for a Young Male Worker to Support a Family?" NU Policy Research 1(1), www.nwu.edu/IPR/publications/nupr
 

3/27/01 REVIEW & MIDTERM EXAM
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4/3/01 ONE-VARIABLE ANALYSIS
O'Sullivan & Rassel, CH. 11. ONE-VARIABLE ANALYSIS
Articles:
1) Means, Medians, and Modes
Welch, S., Combs, M., Sigelman, L., and Bledsoe, T. "Race or Place? Emerging Public Perspectives on Urban Education." PS: Political Science & Politics 30(3):454-458.
 

4/10/01 SPRING BREAK
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4/17/01 STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE
O'Sullivan & Rassel, CH. 12. STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE
Articles:
1) Chi Square
Hildreth, D. J. 1996. "Do Baseball Positions Correspond with a Player's Race?" Mathematics Teacher 89(4):334-338.

2) T-Test
Swindell, D. and M. S. Rosentraub. 1998. "Who Benefits from the Presence of Professional Sports Teams? The Implications for Public Funding of Stadiums and Arenas." Public Administration Review 58(1):11-20.
 

4/24/01 CONTINGENCY TABLES
O'Sullivan & Rassel, CH. 13. TWO-VARIABLE ANALYSIS
Articles:
1) Contingency Tables
Liou, K. T., and E. G. Savage. 1998. "Citizen Perception of Community Policing Impact." Public Administration and Management: An Interactive Journal www.hbg.psu.edu
 

5/1/01 CORRELATION AND REGRESSION
O'Sullivan & Rassel, Ch. 14 CORRELATION AND REGRESSION
Articles:
1) Correlations/One-Variable Regression
Bernick, F. L. and D. J. Pratto. 1994. "Improving the Quality of Information in Mail Surveys: Use of Special Mailings." Social Science Quarterly 75(1):212-219.

2) Multiple Variable Regression
McGarrell, R. F., and Pratto, D. J. 1991. "Differential Effects of Juvenile Justice Reform on Incarceration Rates of the States." Crime & Delinquency 37(2):262-280.
 

5/8/01 RESEARCH FINDINGS
O'Sullivan & Rassel, CH. 15. INTERPRETING AND COMMUNICATING RESEARCH
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5/15/01 REVIEW
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5/22/01 FINAL EXAM; RESEARCH PROSPECTUS DUE
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