The Last Blog Entry
Hi All
Well, here it is, the last blog entry after a year of being together. I suffer with a certain sense of sadness at all of you leaving and yet, I am so proud of all of you for hanging in there through this course. I know that many of you have had a hard time facing all of the demons that live in this class. And I am really pleased to see you all emerge the stronger for it. No longer are you my students - though you taught me so much this year - ou are now all colleagues.
Remember when you first received the syllabus and you wondered, what have I gotten myself into? Am I really going to complete all of this work on time? And you did. You faced your math demons and succeeded. You are now certified by the CITI examination as human subject research qualified. You are IRB examined and approved. You have formulated a research topic. Turned it into a question. Developed hypotheses. Carried out a literature research project on that question. Wrote a literature review. Developed research tools to study your hypotheses. Carried out the study project. Wrote it up as a final paper. And now you will present your work. All in all, that is something that each of you should be very proud of. And, along the way, you managed to make it through a whole truckload of statistical theory and practice. I would say that that is quite a bit for which you should be patting yourself on the back.
Welcome to the world. May you all go forth in it and do great things. I believe that you will. And, when things get tough for you in the future. Remember me and remember this class. If you could get through Tarynn, you can get through anything.
Please remember the following for the last day of class:
(1) Bring a CD with your talk, paper, and SPSS dataset on it. Make sure it has your name on it.
(2) Bring a handout copy of your presentation for everyone in class (18 copies)
(3) Bring a #2 pencil to class <--- yes, you will need it
(4) Those of you with fake datasets may just throw them out
(5) Those of you with real datasets must shred them or bring them to class for me to shred
(6) All datasets must be removed from any computer on which they reside
(7) All scraps related to the project must be destroyed
(8) Class will be in the teaching lab unless I can get the conference room
(9) Class starts at 3pm this week ---- Don't be late
For those of you having a hard time figuring out how to structure your powerpoint presentation, here is a sample of a powerpoint presented at a national meeting. Sample Powerpoint Presentation
See you all then
Tarynn