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PART ONE: INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH DESIGN | |
The Nature of Enquiry | |
Beginning the Design Process | |
Initial Sources of Invalidity and Confounding | |
Basic Designs | |
Identifying Populations and Samples | |
Additional Sources of Confounding by the Measurement Process and Interactions | |
Refining the Designs | |
PART TWO: MEASUREMENT DESIGN | |
Principles of Measurement and Collecting Factual Data | |
Measuring Attitudes, Opinions and Views | |
Measuring Achievement | |
Evaluating Data Quality | |
Determining Instrument Reliability and Validity | |
PART THREE: TURNING DATA INTO INFORMATION USING STATISTICS | |
Descriptive Statistics Using a Spreadsheet | |
Probability and Statistical Significance | |
Power, Errors and Choosing a | |
PART FOUR: EX POST FACTO, EXPERIMENTAL AND QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS: PARAMETRIC TESTS | |
Comparing Two Groups | |
/f003t/f001-Test | |
One-Way Analysis of Variance | |
Factorial Designs | |
Randomized Block Designs and Analysis of Covariance | |
PART FIVE: NONPARAMETRIC TESTS: NOMINAL AND ORDINAL VARIABLES | |
Nonparametric Tests | |
One and Two Samples | |
Nonparametric Tests | |
Multiple and Related Samples | |
PART SIX: DESCRIBING NON-CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS | |
Correlation and Association | |
Regression |
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