This original textbook provides a comprehensive and integrated approach to using quantitative methods in the social sciences. Thomas R Black guides the student and researcher through the minefield of potential problems that may be confronted, and it is this emphasis on the practical that distinguishes his book from others which focus exclusively on either research design and measurement or statistical methods.
Focusing on the design and execution of research, key topics such as planning, sampling, the design of measuring instruments, choice of statistical text and interpretation of results...
This original textbook provides a comprehensive and integrated approach to using quantitative methods in the social sciences. Thomas R Black guides th...
The ability to read published research critically is essential and is different from the skills involved in undertaking research using statistical analysis. This New Edition of Thomas R Black's best-selling text explains in clear and straightforward terms how students can evaluate research, with particular emphasis on research involving some aspect of measurement. The coverage of fundamental concepts is comprehensive and supports topics including research design, data collection and data analysis by addressing the following major issues: Are the questions and hypotheses advanced...
The ability to read published research critically is essential and is different from the skills involved in undertaking research using statistical ana...
This volume offers students a basic introduction to assessing the meaning and validity of research in the social sciences and related fields.
The ability to "read "published research critically is essential and is different from the skills involved in "undertaking "research using statistical analysis. Thomas R Black explains in clear and straightforward terms how students can evaluate research, with particular emphasis on research involving some aspect of measurement. The coverage of fundamental concepts is comprehensive and supports topics including research design, data collection and...
This volume offers students a basic introduction to assessing the meaning and validity of research in the social sciences and related fields.
Angry, bored, and confusedthree words that aptly describe the typical American's view toward the world of politics. But it doesn't have to stay this way, argues Michael Kryzanek, in Angry, Bored, Confused. Kryzanek discusses issues central to American politicscitizenship, power, leadership, problem solving, initiating changethrough a series of straightforward questions, with sometimes surprising answers. Angry, Bored, and Confused examines American politics from the perspective of an anxious consumer seeking to understand the political world, and to change it for the better."
Angry, bored, and confusedthree words that aptly describe the typical American's view toward the world of politics. But it doesn't have to stay this w...
