Web Exercises
- Using the site: http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/nels88/index.asp, discuss how researchers may go about studying the test scores of elementary school students over a time series, and how this data might be used to uncover relationships between variables.
- Review the following site: http://www.npc.umich.edu/news/events/healtheffects_agenda/Morenoff.pdf. Afterward, please discuss how observational studies were used in this case study project to better understand whether policy initiatives have a measureable impact on health. Would you have approached this study the same or differently if you were the researcher?
- Find an example of an observational study on the internet. Discuss the sources of data, methodology, and limitations of the study. How would this example help a researcher who is interested in designing a similar study of his/her own? What would he/she take from this study?