Includes bibliographical references and index.
As Hammersley has acknowledged, the creation in the education field of an orthodoxy around so-called scientific research principles 'may amount to a new round in the paradigm wars' (2005: 141). However, Hammersley writes that it is ...
"This book is designed to introduce doctoral and graduate students to the process of scientific research in the social sciences, business, education, public health, and related disciplines.
Pearson's r is a method for examining relationships between interval/ratio variables that focuses on the coefficient, a figure indicating the degree of correlation between variables (we do not discuss how to produce coefficients here, ...
Bradt, K. (1955). Usefulness of a postcard technique in a mail questionnaire study. Public Opinion Quarterly, 19, 218–222. Brennan, M., & Hoek, J. (1992). Behavior of respondents, nonrespondents and refusers across mail surveys.
Structured around one of the concepts students struggle with the most—the research question—this book begins with how to understand the role of good questions before demonstrating how questions underpin good...
In a series of papers, John Roberts and his coworkers used pile sorts and rating tasks to study how people perceive various kinds of behaviors in games (see, e.g., Roberts and Chick 1979; Roberts and Nattress 1980).
Several of the studies referred to above allow the researcher to track changes in frequency over time (Warde 1997; Bligh et al. 2004). The time periods can have long spans, such as Warde's (1997) analysis of women's magazines over two ...
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Roberts et al . suggested that inexperienced pilots might not have had enough training to assess the seriousness of this error correctly . The P - 3 Game In a series of papers , John Roberts and his coworkers used pile sorts and rating ...
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