Colleagues: I would like to make you aware that the Center for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis (CARMA) at Wayne State University if offering a set of short courses May 13-18 that may be of interest to strategy researchers. As can be found on our website (http://carma.wayne.edu/ShortCourses2013WSU.asp), we have courses on a variety of analytical approaches, including structural equation and multilevel techniques, meta-analysis, network analysis, and use of R in data mining (among other topics). Amd we also have a course by Jeremy Short that focuses on content analysis via computer aided text analysis (CATA). The abstract for this course can be found below. I hope you can join us, and let us know if you have any questions. Thanks. Larry Williams
CARMA Short Course
May 16-18:
Short Course: "Assessing Constructs Using Content Analysis"
Instructor: Dr. Jeremy Short, University of Oklahoma
The class focuses on content analysis as a quantitative research method that uses a set of procedures to classify or categorize communication from organizationally produced texts and narratives such as CEO shareholder letters, annual reports, and mission statements for use with traditional multivariate techniques such as ANOVA, cluster analysis, and regression. This course focuses on using content analysis to measure multidimensional constructs and assess their content, external, discriminant, and predictive validity. A particular focus will include computer-aided text analysis (CATA). The use of CATA as a content analytic method is particularly attractive because of the ability to process large samples with high speeds and reliabilities. Example data sets and exercises will be provided. Participants are encouraged to bring a dataset of organizational narratives along with some idea of constructs that may be gleaned from such texts and, ideally, other archival data that could serve as antecedents or consequences of the constructs measured using CATA. Participants will conduct text analysis exercises by using the free Windows-based CAT Scanner application (more info here http://www.amckenny.com/CATScanner/index.php). An overview and evaluation/demonstration of DICTION 6 software will also be conducted.