Welcome to the Instructor's Resource Center for the Third Edition of Graziano and Raulin's Research Methods. This center contains a variety of useful resources, many of which can be downloaded and modified for your individual needs. This is a dynamic resource center, with additions and updates occurring regularly. We welcome your ideas and/or contributions. Direct your questions, comments, suggestions, and contributions to Mike Raulin at the addre ss listed below.
We have set up a listserv discussion network for instructors who are using the Graziano and Raulin Research Methods text. If you are unfamiliar with listserv discussion networks, these networks use standard e-mail to exchange ideas among all the membe rs of the network. Messages are sent by members of the network to a single address (grazraul-list@listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu), and the message is resent to all other members of the network. We have set up this listserv so that contributions can only be m ade by members and people can only be included in the network by us. This should prevent the problem found in many listserv discussion groups where anyone can join in by simply sending a subscribe message. All instructors who are currently using or cons idering using the Graziano and Raulin Research Methods text are eligible to subscribe. To become a member, send your request to Mike Raulin at raulin@acsu.buffalo.edu. Be sure to include (1) your name, (2) a phone number or address we can reach you at if your e-mail address fails, and (3) where you teach.
This network is open to discuss any topic relevant to a research methods course and this textbook. Feel free to bring up problems that you have encountered, strategies that have worked well or even failed miserably. We can all learn from both the suc cesses and failures of others. We will both be on the network and are eager to hear your ideas. Teaching research methods is a difficult task at best.
The handouts that were included in the last appendix of the Instructor's Manual are available in several formats for downloading. You are welcome to modify these handouts to meet your own needs. We have saved the handouts in the formats listed below for your convenience. Our computer consultant tells us that most of these formats will be recognized by both DOS/Windows and MAC software. If they are wrong about that, let us know. The filename for each handout is the same except for the extens ion, which indicates the format in which they were saved. The extension for each format is indicated in brackets below. Unfortunately, the equations for the statistical handouts did not always translate into the various formats.
We have begun by including handouts that we have available from the Instructor's Manual, but we will be adding additional handouts as they are developed. We welcome any contribution that you might want to make to this collection to be shared am ong your colleagues. We will see to it that the contribution is professionally copyedited and prepared in all of the above formats for distribution. Of course, you will be acknowledged as the author. Please submit only original material. Copyedited ma terial requires special handling that may delay its posting for months.
Click here to check out the files available for downloading.
We have recently added template pages to set up your own web site. The package includes (1) detailed instructions for the novice on how to set up basic web pages, (2) who to contact at your computer center for more information, and (3) basic template pages for the research methods course, where all you need to do is fill in the blanks.
Creating web sites is getting easier all the time. We have included this package to give you the technology to set up a web site now with virtually no investment in software. If you want to get fancier, there are a number of excellent web creation so ftware packages available. You may want to check with your instructional technology staff on campus, because many universities will provide these software packages to their faculty free in order to encourage use of web technology. In addition, the newly released Microsoft Office 97 has the option to save output from most of its component programs (e.g., Word, Excel, etc.) in html format (the language of the web), making web creation about as simple as writing a letter.
We have just added a complete set of basic PowerPoint Lectures. For those who may be unfamiliar with PowerPoint, this is a program that is part of the Microsoft Office Package (also available individually). With PowerPoint, you can create very profes sional looking slides in a matter of minutes. You can easily modify the slides because they exist as a computer file. You can insert new slide that you create, modify current slides, move the slides around, change the slide format and background, all wi th very little effort. If you want, you can have the graphics specialists at your university make 35 mm slides (inexpensive) or color overheads (more expensive), but by far the easiest is to have the computer project the slides for you. Check with your audiovisual specialists to find out if this capability is available at your university. Finally, you can easily printout handouts of your slides for distribution to students. Handouts make it easier for students to follow the lecture because they spend less time writing down the details and more time listening to you.
The lectures provided here cover all of the chapters and appendices. They are a basic outline of the textbook material. There is plenty of room for you to customize the lecture to your own class, add your own examples, or expand or delete coverage. But we have done most of the basic work for you. The current version provides basic lecture slides, but as the technology becomes available, we will add more multimedia to spice up your lectures and illustrate some otherwise difficult-to-illustrate conce pts.
Even compressed, the basic lecture slides are 1.2 megs. The download is relatively quick if you have an ethernet connection to your mainframe as your web access. With a 28.8 modem, you should be able to download the file in one to two hours depending on the quality of your phone connection. Downloading with a slower modem may be impractical. If you want a copy of the lectures but do not want to execute a long download, you can request a copy on disk from Mik e Raulin. Be sure to include a mailing address in your e-mail request. This offer to provide the lectures on disk is open to course instructors ONLY, but students are welcome to download the lecture slides as a study aide.
The PowerPoint files have been zipped using WINZIP to dramatically reduce the download times. WINZIP, a windows version of the orginial DOS-based program Pkzip, is an inexpensive shareware utility available from hundreds of sources on the web. If you do not have a copy, I recommend downloading a copy and trying it. You may soon wonder how you ever got along without it. It can save tremendous space on your disk, while still giving you easy access to necessary files. If you do not want to bother to d ownload WINZIP, you can probably find someone in the department who already has a copy and could unzip your files for you.
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