Survey of Applied Research Methods in Public Policy.

Catalog description

Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Enrollment is restricted to doctoral students. The study of the methods of policy and organization analysis including the assumptions, applications and limits of various research methodologies. Includes quantitative and qualitative methods; focus groups; probability and non-probability sampling; mail, telephone and in-person interviewing; design of instruments; evaluation research, experiments and quasi-experiments; content analysis; observational and unobtrusive methods; cost-benefit and forecasting models; sources for secondary data analysis; and ethics of research.