SOCQRL supports the
teaching of quantitative research skills. Our computer network
provides statistical
software: SAS, SPSS, EXCEL and MICROCASE. Dozens of data sets
used in courses and
for student research are available including the complete set of
General Social Surveys
and locally produced surveys of the Chicago Collar Counties. A
growing number of
interactive online tutorials support course materials which are also
available online.
Links to other university,
sociological, and statistical resources on the World Wide Web
are provided at the
bottom of this page. There is a mini-library of reference and research
books stored in the
DU202B lab to help you.
Need help with a software
application? You will find extensive on-line support by clicking
on the topics listed
to the left, or by using the HELP function found in all applications. Still
don't get it? Ask
your local lab attendant for assistance. Though our Lab Attendants look
overworked and harried,
they are really compassionate and knowledgable. They, too, are
sociology majors who
were trained in SOCQRL from scratch, so they know where you're
coming from.
SOCQRL was founded
in Feb. 1996 by Prof. Charles Cappell with partial support
provided by the National
Science Foundation, Division of Undergraduate Education,
through grant DUE-9551910
and matching funds from the College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences at Northern
Illinois University. |
