Conducting meaningful experiments
Subtitle: 40 steps to becoming a scientist
By: R. Barker Bausell.
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
Subjects: Research -- Methodology; Scientists -- Vocational guidance
Description: Tired of research methods books that tell how to perform a research study without any mention of the why behind doing research? Aimed at communicating the excitement and responsibility of the research process, this remarkable volume enables you to evaluate beforehand whether a prospective research study has the potential to either improve the human condition, contribute to theory formation, or explain the etiology of a significant phenomenon rather than to produce just another "publishable" study.

By emphasizing how to think about and strategize a research study, Bausell shows you the important steps of a scientific study - from the formulation of the problem to the write-up of the results.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.