Exploring Research

IN THIS SECTION:
1.) BRIEF
2.) COMPREHENSIVE

Preface

Chapter 1: The Role and Importance of Research

Chapter 2: The Research Process: Coming to Terms

Chapter 3A: Selecting a Problem and Reviewing the Research

Chapter 3B: Ethics: The Basic Principles

Chapter 4: Sampling and Generalizability

Chapter 5: Measurement, Reliability, and Validity

Chapter 6: Methods of Measuring Behavior

Chapter 7: Data Collection and Descriptive Statistics

Chapter 8: Introducing Inferential Statistics

Chapter 9: Nonexperimental Research: Descriptive and Correlational Methods

Chapter 10: Nonexperimental Research: Qualitative Methods

Chapter 11: Pre- and True Experimental Research Methods

Chapter 12: Quasi-Experimental Research: A Close Cousin to Experimental Research

Chapter 13: Writing a Research Proposal

Chapter 14: Writing A Research Manuscript

Appendix A: An Introduction to SPSS 16.x

Appendix B: Sample Data Set

References

Glossary

Index

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Neil J. Salkind received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in Human Development, and after teaching for 35 years at the University of Kansas, he remains as a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology and Research in Education where he continues to collaborate with colleagues and work with students. His early interests were in the area of children's cognitive development. After researching in the areas of cognitive style and (what was then known as) hyperactivity, he became a postdoctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina's Bush Center for Child and Family Policy. His work then changed directions and focused on child and family policy, specifically the impact of alternative forms of public support on various child and family outcomes. He has over 150 professional papers and presentations, has written over 100 trade and textbooks, and is the author of Statistics for People Who Think They Hate Statistics (Sage), Theories of Human Development (Sage), and Exploring Research. He has edited several encyclopedias including the Encyclopedia of Human Development, the Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics, and the recently published Encyclopedia of Research Design. He was the editor of Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography for 13 years and lives in Lawrence, Kansas, where he likes to read, swim with the River City Sharks, bake brownies, and poke around old Volvos and old houses.

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