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Research methods : a tool for life / Bernard C. Beins.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston, Mass. ; London : Allyn and Bacon, 2003.Description: xvii, 430 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780205327713 (hbk.) :
  • 0205327710
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 150.72 BEI
LOC classification:
  • BF76.5 .B439 2003
Contents:
1.Pyschology, science, and life -- 2.Ethics in research: following the golden rule -- 3.Planning research: generating a question -- 4.Practical issues in planning your research -- 5.Conducting an experiment: general principles -- 6.The design of simple and complex experiments -- 7.Expanding on experimental designs: repreated measures and quasi-experiments -- 8.Principles of survey research -- 9.Correlational research -- 10.Studying patterns in the natural world: observational approaches -- 11.Research in depth: longitudinal and single-case studies -- 12.People are different: considering cultural and individual differences in research --
Summary: This text should help students to understand how to conduct meaningful research using a wide array of methodologies. It should also help them to appreciate the social and cultural factors that influence how they carry out research and how they interpret it.
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Text on lining paper.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-412) and index.

1.Pyschology, science, and life -- 2.Ethics in research: following the golden rule -- 3.Planning research: generating a question -- 4.Practical issues in planning your research -- 5.Conducting an experiment: general principles -- 6.The design of simple and complex experiments -- 7.Expanding on experimental designs: repreated measures and quasi-experiments -- 8.Principles of survey research -- 9.Correlational research -- 10.Studying patterns in the natural world: observational approaches -- 11.Research in depth: longitudinal and single-case studies -- 12.People are different: considering cultural and individual differences in research --

This text should help students to understand how to conduct meaningful research using a wide array of methodologies. It should also help them to appreciate the social and cultural factors that influence how they carry out research and how they interpret it.

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