This course prepares students to construct and answer research
questions. Students will review literature, develop and
implement a questionnaire, create a codebook, and conduct data
entry and analysis to answer a specific research question.
Reporting results and presentation skills will be practiced.
Athena Title
HPRB Research Methods
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in HDFS 6800, HPRB 7510, SOWK 7126, SOWK 7126E
Non-Traditional Format
This course will be taught 95% or more online.
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
Students will understand how to construct a health promotion research question.
Students will understand how to apply the Scientific Method to answer a research question.
Students will understand how to discriminate amongst the types of validity and reliability for measures and study designs.
Students will understand how to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of study designs commonly used in health promotion research and practice.
Students will understand how to identify the components of informed consent and the historical events that led to protection of human subjects
Students will understand how to describe the process of data collection, including recruitment, enrollment, and survey administration.
Students will understand how to interpret results from survey data with commonly used statistical procedures to answer health promotion research questions.
Topical Outline
Developing research questions and surveys
Reliability and validity of measures
Recruitment, enrollment, retention, and working with human subjects
Matching your research question to statistical tests
