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• Practical applications encourage readers to apply principles presented in the chapter. Some of these are in the form of exercises relevant to chapter content. Others are guidelines that provide helpful hints for executing certain aspects of the research process effectively. Still others are checklists that enable readers to apply evaluative criteria to their research proposals, projects, and reports. Taken together, these practical applications help readers do precisely what the title of this book suggests: plan and design a research project.
• Sample proposals and dissertations from a variety of subject areas are included in eight of the 12 chapters (Chapters 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11) so that readers can see how their peers have handled various topics. Shorter excerpts from additional dissertations and masters’ theses are embedded throughout the book to illustrate particular methods and writing strategies.
• New! Innovative Learning Technology MyEducationalResearchLab, an online learning tool, offers quizzes to test mastery of chapter objectives; Review, Practice, and Enrichment exercises to deepen understanding, Activities and Applications to foster the use of chapter concepts, and Building Research Skill exercises to provide interactive practice in understanding and doing research. 
• Using Technology icons mark suggestions for how readers might use computer technology to make the research process more efficient.
• New! Appendix A–Using  a Spreadsheet: Microsoft Excel explains how a novice might use Microsoft Excel to (a) keep track of resources during a review of the literature, (b) record and recode research data, (c) reorganize data, and (d) perform simple calculations and statistical analyses.
• Appendix B–Using SPSS covers the creation of a data set, computing basic descriptive statistics, and computing inferential statistics. This appendix familiarizes students with this powerful software package and ensures they learn what SPSS can and cannot do and how to make the most of it.
• New! Significantly expanded and updated material, specifically:
  • The importance of research expertise for practitioners as well as researchers (Chapter 1),
  • Theory-building processes (Chapter 2),
  • Operational definitions (Chapter 3),
  • Need for open-mindedness in hypothesis testing and data collection (Chapters 3 and 6),
  • Online databases (Chapter 4),
  • Additional issues in writing, such as need for consistency in terminology use, misuse of homonyms, correct use of apostrophes in possessives, and need for parallelism in grammatical structure (Chapter 6),
  • Possible influences of cultural background and gender on responses to interviews and questionnaires (Chapters 7 and 9),
  • Cohort-sequential designs (Chapter 9),
  • Value of pilot studies for determining the internal reliability and validity of researcher-developed assessment instruments (Chapter 9),
  • Use of the Internet to collect questionnaire data (Chapter 9),
  • U-shaped relationships (Chapter 11),
  • Mediators and moderators in structural equation modeling (Table 11.5 in Chapter 11)

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• Appendix A–Using  a Spreadsheet: Microsoft Excel explains how a novice might use Microsoft Excel to (a) keep track of resources during a review of the literature, (b) record and recode research data, (c) reorganize data, and (d) perform simple calculations and statistical analyses.
• Innovative Learning Technology MyEducationalResearchLab, an online learning tool, offers quizzes to test mastery of chapter objectives; Review, Practice, and Enrichment exercises to deepen understanding, Activities and Applications to foster the use of chapter concepts, and Building Research Skill exercises to provide interactive practice engaging with research articles. 
• Significantly expanded and updated material, specifically:
• The importance of research expertise for practitioners as well as researchers (Chapter 1),
• Theory-building processes (Chapter 2),
• Operational definitions (Chapter 3),
• Need for open-mindedness in hypothesis testing and data collection (Chapters 3 and 6),
• Online databases (Chapter 4),
• Additional issues in writing, such as need for consistency in terminology use, misuse of homonyms, correct use of apostrophes in possessives, and need for parallelism in grammatical structure (Chapter 6),
• Possible influences of cultural background and gender on responses to interviews and questionnaires (Chapters 7 and 9),
• Cohort-sequential designs (Chapter 9),
• Value of pilot studies for determining the internal reliability and validity of researcher-developed assessment instruments (Chapter 9),
• Use of the Internet to collect questionnaire data (Chapter 9),
• U-shaped relationships (Chapter 11),
• Mediators and moderators in structural equation modeling (Table 11.5 in Chapter 11)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments                                                                                                                   

Introduction                                                                                                                             

PART I:  THE FUNDAMENTALS                                                                            

Chapter 1.  WHAT IS RESEARCH?                                                                             

Chapter 2.  TOOLS OF RESEARCH                                                                          

PART II:  FOCUSING YOUR RESEARCH EFFORTS                                         

Chapter 3.  THE PROBLEM: THE HEART OF THE RESEARCH PROCESS            

Chapter 4.  REVIEW OF THE RELATED LITERATURE                                           

Chapter 5.  PLANNING YOUR RESEARCH PROJECT                                             

Chapter 6.  WRITING THE RESEARCH PROPOSAL                                                 

PART III:  QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES                            

Chapter 7.  QUALITATIVE RESEARCH                                                                     

Chapter 8.  HISTORICAL RESEARCH                                                                        

PART IV:  QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES                          

Chapter 9.  DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH                                                            ...........

Chapter 10. EXPERIMENTAL AND EX POST FACTO DESIGNS                            

Chapter 11.  STRATEGIES FOR ANALYZING QUANTITATIVE DATA                  

PART V:  PREPARING THE RESEARCH REPORT                                            

Chapter 12. TECHNICAL DETAILS: STYLE, FORMAT, AND ORGANIZATION OF THE

         RESEARCH REPORT                                                                                                  

APPENDICES                                                                                                                      

Appendix A.  USING A SPREADSHEET: MICROSOFT EXCEL                                

Appendix B.  USING SPSS                                                                                           

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  Written in uncommonly engaging and elegant prose, this text guides the reader, step-by-step, from the selection of a problem, through the process of conducting authentic research, to the preparation of a completed report, with practical suggestions based on a solid theoretical framework and sound pedagogy. Suitable as the core text in any introductory research course or even for self-instruction, this text will show students two things: 1) that quality research demands planning and design; and, 2) how their own research projects can be executed effectively and professionally.

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