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.
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