Understanding research
Subtitle: becoming a competent and critical consumer
By: W. Paul Jones, Jeffrey A. Kottler
Publisher: Pearson Merrill Prentice Hall
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, New Jersey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Research; Study and teaching (Higher); Reading comprehension; Critical thinking
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-218) and index.
Table of contents: title: chapter 1. What is research and why should you care?; title: chapter 2. What is the question and why is it important? Evaluating the introduction of a research report; title: chapter 3. Who answered the question? Evaluating the participant sample; title: chapter 4. Could they answer the question? Evaluating the procedures and instrumentation; title: chapter 5. What was the (simple) answer, please? Evaluating the results section; title: chapter 6. So, now what? Evaluating the discussion section; title: chapter 7. Not the last chapter.