Understanding research and evidence-based practice in communication disorders
Subtitle: a primer for students and practitioners
By: William O. Haynes, Carole E. Johnson.
Contributors: Johnson, Carole E.
Publisher: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780205453634
Subjects: Communicative disorders -- Research -- Methodology; Speech therapy -- Research -- Methodology; Audiology -- Research -- Methodology; Evidence-based medicine; Communication Disorders; Evidence-Based Medicine; Research Design; Statistics as Topic -- methods
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to research in communication disorders; title: Scientific principles and methods used by researchers; title: Crafting scientific and answerable questions; title: Controlling threats and confounding variables through experimental design; title: Levels of measurement and distribution of scores; title: An introduction to hypothesis testing with inferential statistics; title: Common statistical analyses for finding differences among two or more groups of conditions on one independent variable; title: Studies that analyze differences in groups using factorial designs with more than one independent variable : between, within, and mixed; title: Studies that measure relationships among variables or attempt prediction; title: Single-subject experimental designs in clinical fields; title: Introduction to evidence-based practice; title: Levels of evidence; title: Framing the clinical question and searching for the evidence; title: Evaluating the evidence; title: Evidence-based practice : blending patient preferences, scientific evidence, and clinical expertise; title: Producing research as a student or practitioner; title: Grantsmanship : funding research endeavors.