Exploring Research
ISBN: 9780136011378 | 0136011373
Edition: 7thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2009
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The 7th edition ofExploring Researchprovides an introduction to research methods in a friendly, approachable writing style. It explores the use of electronic sources (the Internet) as a means to enhance research skills; it includes discussions about scientific methods; and it incorporates the most common types of research models in the social and behavioral sciences, including qualitative methods.It provides coverage of the research process, problem selection, sampling and generalizability; a discussion of the measurement process provides a com... MORE
| Preface | |
| The Role and Importance of Research | |
| The Research Process: Coming to Terms | |
| Selecting a Problem and Reviewing the Research | |
| Ethics: The Basic Principles | |
| Sampling and Generalizability | |
| Measurement, Reliability, and Validity | |
| Methods of Measuring Behavior | |
| Data Collection and Descriptive Statistics | |
| I... MORE | |
| Nonexperimental Research: Descriptive and Correlational Methods | |
| Nonexperimental Research: Qualitative Methods | |
| Pre- and True Experimental Research Methods | |
| Quasi-Experimental Research: A Close Cousin to Experimental Research | |
| Writing a Research Proposal | |
| Writing A Research Manuscript | |
| An Introduction to SPSS 16.x | |
| Sample Data Set | |
| References | |
| Glossary | |
| Index | |
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