Does it Work and Why Does it Work?
Get Some Advice
Items
- This week and only this week please complete the R training modules before reading the Albano text.
- Please make sure to look over the Writing on Slack and Responding on Slack prior to posting.
Review Website
Far be it from us to disagree with Snoop, so you should probably go read the syllabus as soon as possible! Additionally look over the other areas on this site: modules, tasks, trainings, walkthroughs, to do list, and resources pages for this class.
Download Literature
Read Some Papers
For the readings below, write a single post on Slack addressing each question:
| Title | Paper | Question | Post | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Psychopathic Sims: Testing the Cheater-Hawk Hypothesis in a Video Game | Visser, Batinic, Worth, Book, & Toll (2020) | Focusing on just the measures, what are your thoughts regarding the validity and reliability of the study? | #wk1-psychopathic-sims |  |
| What is the difference between evaluation and research - and why do we care? | Mathison (2006) | How is evaluation viewed in your field? Is it generally feared, welcomed, both, neither? | #wk1-#evaluation-views | |
| What is Evaluation? | Davidson (2004) | Knowing that there is no set definition of program evaluation, how would you define the term? | #wk1-#evaluation-definition | |
Read Some Text
Note: It is absolutely fine if you cannot understand some of what is presented, especially with the syntax which can be overwhelming right now. You won’t benefit much at this point (or ever) by reinventing the wheel, rather you learn by copying, pasting, and tweaking. Its not stealing - this is how open source works!