A course in quantitative research workflow for students in the higher education administration program at the University of Florida
Prior to first meeting, please follow the software link to download and install all relevant software.
In the schedule below, items are marked as follows:
Assignments are by start of class in the week noted.
| Week | Topic |
|---|---|
| Week 1 (1/10) |
> Course welcome > Getting and installing required software > Introduction to RStudio (R, RMarkdown, git) |
| Week 2 (1/17) |
> Computer file structure > Organizing a script and project directory + Supplemental: Getting higher education data from common sources < Assignment 1 |
| Week 3 (1/24) |
> Data wrangling I: Enter the Tidyverse + Supplemental: Data wrangling with base R < Assignment 2 < Final project: proposal |
| Week 4 (1/31) |
> Data wrangling II: Appending, joining, and reshaping data < Assignment 3 |
| Week 5 (2/7) |
> Data visualization with ggplot2 < Assignment 4 |
| Week 6 (2/14) |
> Creating research reports with RMarkdown < Assignment 5 |
| Week 7 (2/21) |
> Data wrangling III: Working with strings and dates < Assignment 6 |
| Week 8 (2/28) |
> Functional programming < Assignment 7 |
| Week 9 (3/7) |
> Data wrangling IV: A philosophy of data wrangling < Assignment 8 |
| Week 10 | NO CLASS SPRING BREAK (3/14) |
| Week 11 (3/14) |
> Choose your own module based on interests < Assignment 9 < Final project: initial set of analyses |
| Week 12 (3/21) |
> Choose your own module based on interests < Assignment 10 |
| Week 13 (3/28) |
> Choose your own module based on interests < Assignment 11 |
| Week 14 (4/4) |
> Choose your own module based on interests < Assignment 12 |
| Week 15 (4/11) |
> Choose your own module based on interests < Assignment 13 < Final project: draft of final report |
| Week 16 (4/18) |
> Presentations |
| FINALS (4/25) |
< Final project: final report < Supplemental problem sets from after break (if any) |