Social Science Research Design and Statistics: A Practitioner's Guide to Research Methods and SPSS Analysis
Publisher: Watertree Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chesapeake, Virginia, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 558
ISBN-13: 9780978718671
Table of contents: label: Front Matter
title: Preface
pagenum: xi; label: Chapter 1
title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; title: Purpose of Research, research Traditions, New trends in Research, Review; label: Chapter 2
title: Qualitative Research
pagenum: 21; title: Basic Concepts, Research Tools, Threats to Validity, Review; label: Chapter 3
title: Quantitative Research
pagenum: 47; title: Basic Concepts, Quantitative Research Designs, Threats to Validity, Review; label: Chapter 4
title: Evaluation Research
pagenum: 129; title: Evaluation Types, Evaluation Strategies, Evaluation Framework, Evaluability Assessment, Review; label: Chapter 5
title: Descriptive Statistics
pagenum: 153; title: Introduction, Measures of Central Tendency, Measures of Dispersion, Measures of Relative Position, Graphs and Charts, Review; label: Chapter 6
title: Inferential Statistics
pagenum: 187; title: Basic Concepts, Evaluating Test Assumptions, Test Decision Tree, Review; label: Chapter 7
title: Goodness of Fit Tests
pagenum: 239; label: Chapter 8
title: Difference Tests
pagenum: 257; label: Chapter 9
title: Correlation and Prediction Tests
pagenum: 331; label: End Matter
title: Glossary
pagenum: 453; label: End Matter
title: References
pagenum: 519; label: End Matter
title: About the Authors
pagenum: 531; label: End Matter
title: Index
pagenum: 533