| Tentative
Agenda (as
of 03/07/2006)
| Sunday,
July 23, 2006 |
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5:00-6:00 |
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Registration
and Connection to UNC Campus Wireless Network*
The Carolina Inn |
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6:00-8:00 |
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Dinner at Carolina Inn
Introductions (Mark W. Fraser, Coordinator, Summer Institute)
Welcome (G. Stephane Philogene, OBSSR, NIH and Jack M. Richman, Dean, UNC School of Social Work)
Dinner Speaker (David B. Abrams, Director, OBSSR, NIH) |
*Participants
are STRONGLY ENCOURAGED to bring a laptop to the Summer Institute.
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| Monday,
July 24, 2006 |
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8:00-9:00 |
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Continental Breakfast and Computer
Connectivity |
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9:00-9:30 |
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Overview of Week and Orientation to Chapel Hill
(Mark Fraser) |
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9:30-10:30 |
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Conceptualizing Social Problems and Interventions
(Mark Fraser) |
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10:30-10:45 |
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Break |
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10:45-Noon |
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Mediation: Basis for the Design of Interventions
in Social Work (Mark Fraser) |
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Noon-1:00 |
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Lunch |
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1:00-2:00 |
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Health Sciences Library, including e-journal
Access (Librarian) |
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2:00-3:00 |
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Assignment: Develop Conceptual Framework
(including mediators) (on own) |
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3:00-3:15 |
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Break |
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3:15-5:00 |
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Developing-Submitting NIH Proposals (Sheryl Zimmerman
and NIH Staff) |
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Evening |
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Assignment: Based on your conceptual
framework (including mediators), develop 2-3 research aims.
Also list (in bullet format) 5 literature-based justifications
for the importance of your proposed project. Then begin work
on your treatment or training manual. Try to develop 5 pages
of intervention activities (clinical or training) related to
your mediators. |
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| Tuesday,
July 25, 2006 |
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8:00-8:30 |
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Continental Breakfast |
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8:30-Noon |
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Measurement and Scale Development
- The Multiagent, Multimethod Perspective (Mark Fraser)
- Table of Measures
- Steps in Developing Scales
- Structural Equation Models and Measurement (Shenyang
Guo)
- Overview of Exploratory Factor Analysis versus Confirmatory
Factor Analysis
- Comparative Fit and Modification Indices
- Construct Validity and Measurement Models (parallel,
tau-equivalent, congeneric, and common factor models)
- Generalizability Theory
- Special Topics (Shenyang Guo)
- Nonnormal Data
- Bootstrapping
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Noon-1:00 |
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Lunch |
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1:00-3:00 |
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Assignment: Develop a table of measures that describes
your constructs and shows reliability and validity for each
proposed construct; if applicable, draft text describing your
scale development procedures, including methods for testing
factorial invariance. Specify thresholds for eigenvalues, factor
loadings, and fit indices. Include discussion of methods to
handle nonnormal distributions. |
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3:00-3:15
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Break |
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3:15-5:00
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Presentation and Critique: Share your research aims,
conceptual framework, treatment protocols, and measures tables
in small groups. Provide feedback to one another. |
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| Wednesday,
July 26, 2006 |
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8:00-8:30 |
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Continental Breakfast |
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8:30-10:30 |
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Overview of Intervention Design
- Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs (Mark Fraser)
- Sampling: Recruitment, Retention, and Attrition (Sheryl
Zimmerman)
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10:30-10:45 |
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Break |
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10:45-Noon |
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Special Topics in Design (Mark Fraser)
- Group Random Assignment
- Cluster Effects
- Minimal Detectable Effects
- Running Optimal Design for HLM
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Noon-1:00 |
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Lunch |
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1:00-3:00 |
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Power Analysis for Advanced Designs (Shenyang
Guo)
- PS for Survival Models
- SAS for SEM
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3:00-3:15 |
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Break |
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3:15-5:00 |
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Creating a Budget and Budget Justification (Sheryl
Zimmerman) |
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Evening |
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Assignment: Write the design (including
sampling) section of your proposal. Discuss the assignment mechanism
(random assignment, if possible). Describe recruitment and retention.
Estimate an attrition rate. Do a power analysis based on expected
attrition. Draft a budget and budget justification. |
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| Thursday,
July 27, 2006 |
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8:00-8:30 |
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Continental Breakfast |
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8:30-9:30 |
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Presentation and Critique: Share your
design, budget, and budget justification in small groups. Provide
feedback to one another. |
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9:30-9:45 |
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Break |
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9:45-1:00 |
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Developing a Plan for Analysis (Shenyang
Guo)
- 2- and 3-level Hierarchical Linear Models
- Recent Advances in Survival Models
- Testing Mediation Effects in HLM and Survival Models
- Propensity Score Matching
- Convenience samples: What do I do?
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1:00-2:30 |
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Lunch Speaker – Ethics, Informed Consent,
HIPAA, and Data Safety Monitoring (TBN) |
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2:30-4:00 |
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Assignment: Write the analysis, informed
consent, and data safety monitoring sections of your proposal. |
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4:00-5:00 |
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Presentation and Critique: Share your
analysis, informed consent, and data safety monitoring sections
in small groups. Provide feedback to one another. |
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Evening |
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Assignment: Prepare 5-8 .ppt slides
of your proposal and submit them electronically by 7:00 p.m.
In addition, two or three volunteers will revise their entire
proposals and submit them to the scientific study section by
e-mail, no later than 7:00 p.m. |
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| Friday,
July 28, 2006 |
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8:00-8:30 |
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Continental Breakfast |
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8:30-10:00 |
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Mock Initial Review Group (IRG) Meeting
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10:00-10:15 |
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Break |
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10:15-Noon |
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IRG-related Activity and Discussion
with NIH Representatives |
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Noon-1:30 |
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Lunch Speaker – eRA Commons and
Electronic Submissions (TBN) |
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1:30-3:00 |
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Check Out and Transportation to Airport |
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