A course in quantitative research workflow for students in the higher education administration program at the University of Florida
Students are expected to complete the following assignments as part of the course (percentage of final grade in parentheses):
Class participation (10%): We will use class time to work through lesson modules together. Students are expected to follow along with the presentation and run code on their own machine. Students are also expected to answer questions and work through example problems throughout the class session.
Problem sets (45%):Every lesson module will end with a set of questions that students must answer. Students can work together to solve the problem sets, but everyone must submit their own work and do their best to give accurate attribution for borrowed/repurposed code. In general, problem set answers will need to be submitted via GitHub a week after they are assigned.
There are a few supplemental lessons that include supplemental assignments. Though these are not required, you may find them useful. Please note that the supplemental assignments may be more difficult than the normal problem set assignments. Students may complete more than the required numbered of lessons during the second half of the course and submit the problem sets as supplemental assignments. Students may replace up to two (2) problem set submissions with submissions from the supplemental assignments.
Reproducible report (45%): Everyone must produce a 3-5 page report on a higher education topic of interest. The report should be a combination of writing, tables, and figures, have minimal citations (if any), and be fully reproducible with minimal effort. You must use data that is either publicly available or that can be shared with others (no IRB restrictions). Everyone will submit three preliminary assignments in addition to the final report. Each product is worth the following percentage of the final grade: