Course Materials
Pre-readings, Exercises, and course handouts
2021 Research Staff Training materials (slides, exercises, and software) will be posted here once the training begins.
Zoom: All lectures will be hosted on Zoom meetings. The most up to date Zoom links can always be found on the RST Google calendar. Please see this Zoom guide for additional information.
Week 1
Welcome and Intros
Project Lifecycle - slides
IPA's Research Protocols - slides
Stakeholder Engagement - slides, exercise
Measurement - slides
Stata 101 lecture + Stata/R self-paced lab
SurveyCTO 1 and 2 - see software page and download the exercises
Administrative Data - slides
Week 2
Research Ethics - slides, Belmont Report
Research Transparency - slides
SurveyCTO 3 - slides, exercise
PI Perspective Panel - Baysan paper and Raffler paper
Sample Size and Power - background lecture video, STATA exercise, R exercise, and slides
Week 3
Coding Best Practices - slides
Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) - slides
IPA Ethics and IRBs - slides, pre-reading: The Belmont Report
Data Validation - slides
High Frequency Checks and Back Checks:
Pre-recorded Data Security lecture
Data Flow for Phone Surveys - slides
Project Management (IPA) - slides
Project Management (J-PAL) - slides
Research Methods: Experiments for Phone Surveys - slides