Research Methods: A Process of Inquiry
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Research Methods: A Administer of Inquiry, 6/e This comprehensive text and companion website explore the entire range of research methodologies in psychology, using a programmatic approach to initiate topics and sequentially build on earlier presentations. Included are unique choice-tree flowcharts that lead students through the basic research designs to the choice of apt statistical procedures. Emphasizing research concepts rather than cookbook-like strategies, and using clearly written explanations and examples drawn from all areas of psychology, the Graziano/Raulin textbook, Research Methods: A Administer of Inquiry, 6th edition, and website help students develop a sophisticated understanding of scientific research. In addition, because it is so vital to teach students ethical sensitivity and skills, near every chapter deals with some aspects of research ethics, maintenance the issues visible throughout the text. The companion website features an Interactive Study Guide and Lab Manual, several tutorials (using web browsers, statistical analysis, library research, and APA writing style), expanded discussion of near two dozen topics, historical coverage, and research examples drawn from the literature. The website also includes theoretical coverage of statistical concepts for those instructors who want to integrate the teaching of research and statistics. For more in rank, stay http://www.ablongman.com/graziano6e
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this item was received well before the expected date, and in shape up better than anticipated. Ordered as a gift.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book provides a very sound approach to research methods. It covers a lot of ground in depth but takes the difficulty of the material ( fro most undergraduate students) into account.
Rating: 4 / 5
I resolute to take on board this text for my course as it is comprehensive, up-to-date, and includes a wealth of supplementary materials that are web-based, as well as available on the accompanying CD. Not compulsory highly for undergrad AND graduate students.
Rating: 5 / 5
First, I want to say that I have NOT read this book; I have some comments based on its table of contents. I teach research methods in education, and have served on over a hundred dissertation committees in education and other fields (including several dissertations in psychology), and I would not use or urge this book primarily because of its extremely limited treatment of qualitative research. Despite the book cover’s claim that the book deals with “the entire range of research methodologies in psychology”, the coverage of qualitative methods appears to be limited to one chapter on naturalistic and case-study methods. (A second chapter which deals with field research in fact seems to focus on quasi-experimental and single-theme designs, which are not qualitative.) The rest of the book is heavily quantitative/experimental in its approach (there are three chapters on experimental design lonely). It seems revealing that although there are sections on the limitations of naturalistic and case study research and correlational and differential research, there is no explicit section on the limitations of experimental research. There is also no discussion of one of the most common qualitative approaches used in psychology–the qualitative interview study, which is different from a “case study”. (For more on this approach, I urge “Learning from Strangers: The Art and Method of Qualitative Interview Studies”, by the psychologist Robert Weiss.)
If you are a student in a very quantitatively-oriented psychology department, this may be a helpful book for you. But, at a time when many research methods books are devoting much more space to qualitative methods, Graziano and Raulin’s book seems a bit anachronistic. Several highly regarded research methods textbooks that are more even-handed in their coverage are David Krathwohl, Methods of Educational and Social Science Research: An Integrated Approach (second edition, 1998), and Colin Robson, Real World Research: A Resource for Social Scientists and Practitioner-Researchers (1993; second edition in the offing). There is also an enormous literature on qualitative methods specifically; simply search this site below “qualitative research”.
Rating: 2 / 5
As a Ph.D. student that is about to start my dissertation I found this book extremely helpful in wading through the various research and analysis methods. Filled with examples (although principally focused on Psychology), the book has helped me plot my dissertation. A fantastic reference book and in my attitude a must have for those who are about to start their dissertation.
Rating: 4 / 5