Title: Evaluating scientific research : separating fact from fiction /
Authors: Leavitt, Fred
Publisher: Prentice Hall,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Research Evaluation; Research Methodology
Contents: What is Science? -- Reading and Reviewing the Scientific Literature -- Conflicts of Interest and Bias -- Finding Interesting Problems and Studying them Creativly -- Selecting and Measuring Variables -- Choosing the Best Research Design -- Experimenting: Two Groups -- Variations on the Simple Experiment -- Comparing Existing Groups -- Strategies to Predict and Assess Relationships -- Case Studies -- Observing -- Surveys -- Other Types of Self-Report -- Using Existing Data -- Using Animals in Research -- Data Analysis -- Philosophical Challenges