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Conducting research : social and behavioral science methods / Lawrence T. Orcher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Orcher, Lawrence T.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social sciences--Research.
- Social sciences.
- Social sciences--Methodology.
- Social sciences--Study and teaching.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 244 pages ; 28 cm + 1 answer key (6 pages ; 28 cm)
- Place of Publication:
- Glendale, CA : Pyrczak Pub., ©2005.
- Contents:
- Getting started. Selecting tentative topics for empirical research
- Locating literature and refining a research topic
- Preparing a literature review
- Writing research hypotheses, purposes, and questions
- Selecting a research approach
- Looking ahead to participant selection
- Looking ahead to instrumentation
- Looking ahead to data analysis for quantitative research
- Looking ahead to data analysis for qualitative research
- Preparing a preliminary research proposal
- Issues in participant selection. Participant selection in quantitative research
- Participant selection in qualitative research
- Issues in instrumentation. Instrumentation in quantitative research
- Writing objective instruments
- Instrumentation in qualitative research
- Techiniques for data analysis. Descriptive statistics for quantitative and qualitative research
- Correlational statistics for quantitative research
- Inferential statistics for quantitative research
- A closer look at data analysis in qualitative research
- Conducting experiments. Introduction to experimentation and threats to external validity
- Threats to internal validity and true experiments
- Pre-experiments and quasi-experiments
- Putting it together. Writing reports of empirical research
- Appendices. Increasing the response rates to mailed surveys
- A closer look at interpreting correlation coefficients
- Alternative approaches to qualitative research
- An overview of program evaluation
- Ethical issues in conducting research.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-226) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Orcher, Lawrence. Conducting research.
- ISBN:
- 1884585604
- 9781884585609
- OCLC:
- 58541357
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