1. For what types of research are causal modeling and factor analysis appropriate? Would either of these designs be meaningful to your own dissertation research? Why or why not? (Research support is not required for this question.)

2. Now that you have completed this course on multivariate statistics, what has impressed you the most with this expanded knowledge of possibilities for richer designs to test more complex questions? How has this course influenced the focus of your own dissertation research? How confident do you feel that you could do a quantitative research project for your own dissertation (with guidance from your committee members)? How confident do you feel selecting a research design that would use multivariate statistics? How confident do you feel using SPSS? Explain your conclusions. (Research support is not required for this question.)