Research Methods and Statistics Arena

Reconstructing Undergraduate Education

Using Learning Science To Design Effective Courses

• By Robert B. Innes

This book is designed to introduce professors and administrators in higher education to the philosophical, theoretical, and research support for using a constructivist perspective on...

Published May 27th 2004 by Routledge.

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Communication Research Measures

A Sourcebook

• Edited by Rebecca B. Rubin, Philip Palmgreen, Howard E. Sypher

The development of communication as a discipline has resulted in an explosion of scales tapping various aspects of interpersonal, mass, organizational, and instructional communication. These...

Published May 15th 2004 by Routledge.

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Studying Educational and Social Policy

Theoretical Concepts and Research Methods

• By Ronald H. Heck

The overall purpose of this text is to introduce beginning researchers to the study of educational and social policy, how it has been examined from...

Published March 31st 2004 by Routledge.

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Latent Variable Models

An Introduction to Factor, Path, and Structural Equation Analysis

• By John C. Loehlin

This book introduces multiple-latent variable models by utilizing path diagrams to explain the underlying relationships in the models. This approach helps less mathematically inclined students...

Published December 3rd 2003 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Stochastic Musings

Perspectives From the Pioneers of the Late 20th Century

• Edited by John Panaretos

This new edited volume features contributions from many of the leading scientists in probability and statistics from the latter part of the 20th century. It...

Published May 1st 2003 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Understanding Research in Clinical and Counseling Psychology

• Edited by Jay C. Thomas, Jay C. Thomas, Michel Hersen, Michel Hersen

Understanding Research in Clinical and Counseling Psychology is a unique text because it is designed and written for the graduate students aspiring to careers in...

Published January 1st 2003 by Routledge.

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Prediction in Forensic and Neuropsychology

Sound Statistical Practices

• Edited by Ronald D. Franklin

Psychologists are under increasing pressure to demonstrate the ecological validity of their assessment procedures--to show that the recommendations concluding their evaluations are relevant to urgent...

Published December 1st 2002 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Validity Generalization

A Critical Review

• Edited by Kevin R. Murphy

This volume presents the first wide-ranging critical review of validity generalization (VG)--a method that has dominated the field since the publication of Schmidt and Hunter's...

Published December 1st 2002 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Questionnaires in Second Language Research

Construction, Administration, and Processing

• By Zoltán Dörnyei

One of the most common methods of data collection in second language research is using questionnaires of various kinds. In spite of the wide application...

Published August 1st 2002 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Advanced Research Methods in Psychology

• By David C. Giles

How do you perform a MANOVA? What is grounded theory? How do you draw up a repertory grid? These, and many other questions are addressed...

Published August 1st 2002 by Routledge.

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