Mitchell, Mark L. <br/><br/>
Research design explained / 
Mark Mitchell, Janina Jolley. 
 - 5th ed. 
 - Belmont, Calif. :  Thomson/Wadsworth,  c2004. 
 - xx, 570 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Preface.  - Ch.  1 : Psychology and Science.  - Ch.  2 : Generating and Refining Research Hypotheses.  - Ch.  3 : Reading and Evaluating Research.  - Ch.  4 : Measuring and Manipulating Variables: Reliability and Validity.  - Ch.  5 : Beyond Reliability and Validity: The Best Measure for Your Study.  - Ch.  6 : Introduction to Descriptive Methods.  - Ch.  7 : Survey Research.  - Ch.  8 : Internal Validity.  - Ch.  9 : The Simple Experiment.  - Ch.  10 : Expanding the Simple Experiment: The Multiple-Group Experiment.  - Ch.  11 : Expanding the Experiment: Factorial Designs.  - Ch.  12 : Matched Pairs, Within-Subjects, and Mixed Designs.  - Ch.  13 : Single - n Designs and Quasi-Experiments.  - Ch.  14 : Putting It All Together: Writing Research Proposals and Reports.  - Appendix A : APA's Ethical Code : Implications for Planning and Conducting Research.  - Appendix B : Searching the Literature.  - Appendix C : Sample APA-Style Paper.  - Appendix D : A Beginning Researcher's Guide to Statistics.  - Appendix E : Statistical Tables.  - Glossary.  - References.  - Index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>053461731X (hbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Psychology--Research--Methodology.<br/>Psychology, Experimental--Research--Methodology.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>150.72  / MIT