The Uses of Survey Research in Social Sciences

该奖项为东蒙大拿学院社会学系建立本科生研究体验网站提供资金。数据收集和数据分析是独立研究人员必须掌握的两项基本技能。该项目将努力培养学生的技术能力，培养他们通过调查收集数据的技能，以及通过使用SPSS-X进行定量分析的技能。同样重要的是，如果不是更重要的话，这个项目将试图培养学生对喜悦的独特感觉和对整个研究过程本身的兴奋，特别是产生研究“结果”的能力。PI将以美洲原住民本科生为目标参与这一计划。

This award provides funds to the Department of Sociology at Eastern Montana College to establish a Research Experience for Undergraduates Site. Data collection and data analysis are two of the basic skills an independent researcher must master. The project will attempt to foster technical competence in students, their skills in the collection of data through survey and in quantitative analysis through the uses of SPSS-X. Equally importantly, if not even more so, this project will attempt to cultivate in students the unique sense of joy and excitement from the research process itself in general, and the ability to generate research "findings" in particular. The PI will target Native American undergraduate students to participate in this program.