Course Materials
Pre-readings, Exercises, and course handouts
2022 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
Monday October 17th
IPA Research Protocols
Project Lifecycle (J-PAL)
Research Ethics
Pre-reading: The Belmont Report
Stata 101
Tuesday October 18th
Wednesday October 19th
Coding Best Practices
Data Validation
Exercise (zip folder)
Exercise key (zip folder)
SurveyCTO 3
Data Security
Thursday October 20th
Sample Size and Power
Week 2
Monday October 24th
Tuesday October 25th
Implementation Monitoring
IPA and IRBs
Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) J-PAL
'Think like an IRB' exercise (corresponds with slide 44 in the presentation)
Wednesday October 26th
High Frequency Checks and Back Checks
Please install DMS on your computer using the instructions on the IPA GitHub page (note: you will need Stata 17 to run DMS on your computer)
Download the do-file for installing DMS
Recommended pre-reading: DMS Wiki
Github
Writing Stata Commands
Thursday October 27th
Visualizing Data
Communicating about RCTs