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Experimental Design
Procedures for the Behavioral Sciences
Fourth Edition
August 2012 | 1 072 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
This book is for students who are embarking on a qualitative research project in psychology or a related discipline. While focusing mainly on undergraduate dissertations, this book will also be useful for postgraduate students. It takes you through planning a qualitative project, stage by stage, addressing key issues and concerns along the way. The focus throughout is on how to make your project excellent!
Packed full of examples from student projects to help you to put theory into practice, the book guides you through:
• designing your research
• ethical considerations
• collecting your data
• analysing your data
• writing your report or dissertation.
In addition, the book will help you with time management and working with your supervisor, as well as providing guidance on how you can use your project as the basis for publication or further study.
Chapter 1. Research Strategies and the Control of Nuisance Variables
Chapter 2. Experimental Designs: an Overview
Chapter 3. Fundamental Assumptions in Analysis of Variance
Chapter 4. Completely Randomized Design
Chapter 5. Multiple Comparison Tests
Chapter 6. Trend Analysis
Chapter 7. General Linear Model Approach to ANOVA
Chapter 8. Randomized Block Designs
Chapter 9. Completely Randomized Factorial Design with Two Treatments
Chapter 10. Completely Randomized Factorial Design with Three or More Treatments and Randomized Block Factorial Design
Chapter 11. Hierarchical Designs
Chapter 12. Split-Plot Factorial Design: Design with Group-Treatment Confounding
Chapter 13. Analysis of Covariance
Chapter 14. Latin Square and Related Designs
Chapter 15. Confounded Factorial Designs: Designs with Group-Interaction Confounding
Chapter 16. Fractional Factorial Designs: Designs with Treatment-Interaction Confounding
Excellent and comprehensive text - accesible for social scientists and students.
Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University
September 13, 2012
Too complicated for undergrads but recommended to post grads especially PhD students
Political Science , Atilim University
September 7, 2012
