Exploring research
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston, Massachusetts :
Pearson Education ,
c2012
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| Edition: | 8th ed |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The role and importance of research
- 2. The research process:coming to terms
- 3. Selecting a problem and reviewing the research
- 4. The importance of practicing ethics in research
- 5. Sampling and generalizability
- 6. Measurement, reliability, and validity
- 7. Methods of measuring behavior
- 8. Data collection and descriptive statistics
- 9. Introducing inferential statistics
- 10. Nonexperimental research:descriptive and correlational methods
- 11. Nonexperimental research:qualitative methods
- 12. Pre- and true experimental research methods
- 13. Quasi-experimental research:a close cousin to experimental research
- 14. Writing a research proposal
- 15. Writing a research manuscript