Founder & Director.
Sociology Quantitative
Research Lab
Sociology Department
Northern Illinois University
EMAIL: ccappell@niu.edu
PHONE:
(815) 753-1173
OFFICE:
Social Science Research Institute 188
148 N. 3rd St.
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Descriptions of Courses Taught |
| SOCI377A:
Sociological Inquiry I: Introduction to Qualitative Analysis SOCI377B: Sociological Inquiry II: Introduction to Quantitative Analysis SOCI476A: Survey Research SOCI476D: Quantitative Analysis (Intermediate) |
Current
Research Projects |
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Community
Sociology / Chicago Collar County Project |
Recent Papers |
Sociology of Education |
| “Individual,
School, and District Level Effects on Reading Achievement of 8th
Grade Illinois Students,
2002-03.” with Harvey Smith. Paper presented at the American
Educational Research Association. April 15, 2005, Montreal QUE. (PDF
Format) "Modeling Latino/a Performance at a State University." with George Gutierrez and Susan Timm. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociolgoical Association, San Francisco, CA Aug. 17, 2004. (PDF Format) "The Decomposition of Racial Differences in Reading Test Scores using Multi-level Modeling." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego April 14, 2004.(PDF Format) "Curriculum
Assessment: A Case Study in Sociology",
with David H. Kamens. |
| Sociology of Violence |
"Finding
and Explaining Typologies of Violent Familes" Paper presented at the 9th International Family Violence Research
Conference, University of New Hampshire, Portsmouth, NH, July 10-13,
2005 (PDF Format) |
| Sociology of Law and Political Sociology |
| "The
Political Cultural Field of the 2000 Presidential Vote." With
David H. Kamens. Paper presented at the American Sociological Association
Conference, Montreal Que, CA, Aug. 12, 2006. (PDF Format).
"Confidence and Cynicism in American Institutions: Consequences for Political Participation." With Prof. David H. Kamens. Paper presented at the Cultural Turn IV Conference, University of California @ Santa Barbara, March 8, 2003. "An
Inquiry into the Application of Dubuque Packing Standards:
NLRB Decisions regarding the Duty
to Bargain
over Work Relocation." With Prof. Lorraine Schmall. Paper presented at the annual meeting
of the Law and Society Association, Vancouver, BC. May 26, 2002
(PDF Format) |
| Community Analysis |
| “A Case Study in Planned Growth in the Context of Smart Growth and New Urbanism.” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, PA, August , 2005. |
| Network Analysis & Social Structure |
| "Cognitive Representations of Social Structure in a Tongan Village" with Giovanni Bennardo. Paper presented at the Sunbelt Conference of the International Social Network Analysts, San Diego, CA, Mar. 12, 2009. PDF Format. |
| "Influence Structures in a Tongan Village: 'Every Villager is not the Same!'", with Giovanni Bennardo. Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences: Vol. 3: No. 1, Article 2. (2008). http://repositories.cdlib.org/imbs/socdyn/sdeas/vol3/iss1/art2. (PDF Format) |
| Quantitative Reasoning |
| "Knowledge
Gains about Sampling as a Function of Software Tutorial User
Behavior" Paper presented at the annual joint meetings of the American Statistical Association, San Francisco, Aug. 3,2003. (PDF Format) "Evaluation of an Interactive Sampling Tutor." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL, April 21, 2003. (PDF Format) "Using Interactive Tutors to Overcome Cognitive Learning Hurdles in Quantitative Reasoning." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis, April, 2001. (PDF Format) "Computer
Based Training in Quantitative Reasoning and Analysis" |
| Vita: Long Version |