PDD/UST
601, Fall 2008
Applied
Quantitative Reasoning I
Date/Time:
Tuesday 6:00
PM – 10:00 PM
Location:
College of Urban Affairs
Instructor:
Dr. Sugie Lee
Tel: 216-687-2381 Fax: 216-687-2386
Email: s.lee56@csuohio.edu
Office Hours (
Graduate
Assistants/Tutors:
Timothy Kobie, Ph.D. Candidate
Email: t.kobie@csuohio.edu
Office
Hours:
by appointment
Uday Kandula, Ph.D. Student (SPSS Only)
Email: u.kandula@csuohio.edu
Office
Hours:
by
appointment
This course includes basic quantitative methods
designed primarily for graduate students in planning and public policy.
Quantitative reasoning that entails the collection, analysis, and interpretation
of quantitative data is increasingly important in planning and public policy
fields. This course is intended to provide students with both a theoretical
background of statistical analysis and technical components of statistical
analysis using quantitative method tools (e.g., SPSS).
This course is organized into four components—lectures, short quiz,
homework assignment, and exams. Students are expected to learn quantitative
methods and their theoretical concepts and quantitative data analysis and its
interpretation using descriptive and inferential statistics.
Class Text and Materials
Required
Textbook:
Kachigan
S. (1982, 1986). Statistical Analysis.
Required Material and Equipment:
Calculator
Recommended:
Healey,
Joseph F. (2004). Statistics: A Tool for Social Research (7th
edition).
Other Class Materials
Class
materials and articles will be available on the class website.
http://urban.csuohio.edu/~sugie/ust601/index.htm
30%
Midterm Exam
40%
Final Exam
20% Homework
10% Class Participation (5%) and
Short Quiz (5%)
Class Policies
Missed Exams
The make-up exam will be given only
in cases of extreme and documented circumstances or documented illness. You must
make these arrangements in advance of the exam.
The student must schedule the make-up exam within 7 days of the in-class
exam. This is the responsibility of
the student. The make-up exam will vary in form, content, and length from that
given in class. Except in these extreme circumstances,
students earn a score of zero on missed exams. In addition, all
exam answers should include calculation procedures to get correct answers. If
you fail to show all calculation procedures, you are not going to get full
credit. All exams will be drawn from the text and lecture materials. Please keep
in mind that all lecture materials does not originate from the textbook.
Homework Assignment
Late
homework submissions will result in a penalty of 5 % of
your grade
within a week. If students submit
their assignments after a week from the due date, students
will get the additional
5% reduction of their grades on the assignments.
However, students are allowed only one
time to delay their homework assignment without any penalty. In this case, they
have to submit their home works within a week after
the due date.
Most
of the assignments in this class are individual works. Students are encouraged
to work in groups to understand basic concepts on statistics, but they are not
allowed to cooperate for class assignments and exams. As mentioned earlier,
students also must include all calculating procedures and correct answers for
their homework questions.
All
work must be handed in as a “hard-copy” (no
e-mail, e-mail attachments, faxes, etc). When you put your
homework in my mailbox or my office, you have to notify your submission through
email.
Class Working Load
This
class is four credit course. According to CSU’s recommendation regarding class
working loads, students have to invest at least 12 hours (4 credits * 3 hours)
per week except four hours for class.
Class Participation
Sometimes, students are going to participate in homework
solutions or short quiz solution on the class board at the beginning of class. Students will be randomly selected, but they will have equal chance to
participate in this practice.
Extra Credit
There
are no
“extra credit” opportunities to improve your grade in
this class.
Communications
I will only use CSU email addresses when I need to
communicate with students through email.
Computer Labs
Please check the schedule of Lab 39/40 in the urban
college.
http://www.csuohio.edu/offices/ist/services/student/labs.html
Monday–Thursday:
7:30am to 10:00pm; Friday
& Saturday: 7:30am to 5:00pm;
Sunday: Closed
University Policies
http://www.csuohio.edu/studentlife/conduct/StudentCodeOfConduct2004.pdf
When
dealing with homework or assignments completed in a lab setting, students often
find it difficult to distinguish between “helping out” a fellow student, or
“working together” on a project and academic misconduct.
These guidelines may be helpful:
Never
share any of your written or electronic materials with another student.
This includes your homeworks, data, tables, files, etc.
This is academic misconduct.
Work
only at your own computer. Do
not sit in front of a classmate’s computer and “take control” by using
the mouse, typing on the keyboard, etc.
By doing so, you are actually doing the work that your classmate will
hand in and take credit for. This
is academic misconduct.
Write
independently. When assignments
are graded, sentences that are duplicated, or even highly similar, in more
than one assignment are blatantly obvious.
Writing up your answers without consultation avoids this situation.
Handing in an assignment containing verbatim passages from another
student’s work is academic misconduct.
Reference
your information sources. When
you use a piece of information in your write up that you learned from
another source (for example, your text book), that source must be
referenced. Information taken
verbatim must be quoted (to give the original author credit) and information
that is paraphrased must be referenced.
Failing to reference your sources is academic misconduct.
http://www.csuohio.edu/studentlife/conduct/index.html
The
last day to drop this course will be listed on the Registrar’s website.
http://www.csuohio.edu/registrar/calendar.html
Be
sure to check with the Office of Student Services when considering to drop a
course to see if your financial aid, assistantship, or scholarship will be
effected.
Class
will only be cancelled due to weather when the university is closed.
CSU will cancel evening classes by 2 pm each day.
Check www.csuohio.edu/csu_snow
to see if class is cancelled.
Students
who will need special arrangements for exams or assignments must speak with the
instructor by the end of the second week of class.
This includes both physical handicaps and learning disabilities.