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Practical research : planning and design /

By: Leedy, Paul D [author.].
Contributor(s): Ormrod, Jeanne Ellis [author.].
Series: Always learning: Publisher: Harlow : Pearson Education, 2015Edition: Eleventh edition, Global edition.Description: 407 pages : illustrations, forms ; 28 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781292095875; 9781292095875:; 1292095873.Subject(s): Research -- MethodologyDDC classification: 001.42 LEE
Contents:
pt. I. The fundamentals. The nature and tools of research -- pt. II. Focusing your research efforts. The problem: the heart of the research process -- Review of the related literature -- Planning your research project -- Writing the research proposal -- pt. III. Quantitative research. Descriptive research -- Experimental, quasi-experimental, and ex post facto designs -- Analyzing quantitative data -- pt. IV. Qualitative research. Qualitative research methods -- Historical research -- Analyzing qualitative data -- pt. V. Mixed-methods research. Mixed-methods designs -- pt. VI. Research reports. Planning and preparing a final research report -- Appendix A. Using a spreadsheet: Microsoft Excel -- Appendix B. Using SPSS.
Summary: Written in uncommonly engaging and elegant prose, this text is a 'do-it-yourself, understand-it-yourself' manual designed to help research students in any discipline understand the fundamental structure of quality research and the methodical process that leads to genuinely significant results.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-395) and index.

pt. I. The fundamentals. The nature and tools of research -- pt. II. Focusing your research efforts. The problem: the heart of the research process -- Review of the related literature -- Planning your research project -- Writing the research proposal -- pt. III. Quantitative research. Descriptive research -- Experimental, quasi-experimental, and ex post facto designs -- Analyzing quantitative data -- pt. IV. Qualitative research. Qualitative research methods -- Historical research -- Analyzing qualitative data -- pt. V. Mixed-methods research. Mixed-methods designs -- pt. VI. Research reports. Planning and preparing a final research report -- Appendix A. Using a spreadsheet: Microsoft Excel -- Appendix B. Using SPSS.

Written in uncommonly engaging and elegant prose, this text is a 'do-it-yourself, understand-it-yourself' manual designed to help research students in any discipline understand the fundamental structure of quality research and the methodical process that leads to genuinely significant results.

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