13 · Midterm

Wednesday, November 18, 2026

This page is a stub. Materials appear here before the meeting.

Date not final. Instructor off campus — the midterm is proctored; arrangements announced by week 10.

What you should be able to do after this meeting. Design a study in writing, under exam conditions, for a situation you have not seen before.

Session A · 2:05–3:15

Midterm. You are given a situation and asked to design a study to evaluate it, in writing. The question. The design, and the assumption carrying it. What data it requires. And what would undermine it. Open note. It tests whether you can apply the design vocabulary to a situation you have not seen, not whether you memorised definitions. There is nothing to revise beyond having turned up all term — it is the same move the room has made every week since meeting 2.

Session B · 3:30–4:30

Every session B opens with a ten-minute team check-in: what you did since last week, what is stuck, and who is doing what next. Written down, and handed in with that session’s work.

No session B. Class ends when you hand the midterm in.

Your team’s output is submitted before you leave.