Full Description
A companion volume to core research methods texts, The Methods Coach: Learning Through Practice helps students bridge the 'knowing-doing gap'. That is, while core texts help students understand research methods, the coaching program in this supplementary volume helps students do research methods. The three-part structure of each lab-a 'tune-up', a lab application, and constructive feedback-optimizes students' ability to apply and practise the theories, concepts, and techniques presented in introduction to research methods courses. As a result, The Methods Coach offers much more than conventional study guides, which instead tend to focus on learning comprehension via chapter summaries, review of major concepts, and sample test questions.
Contents
'You Play the Way you Practice': A Preface for Students ; Lab 1: The Building Blocks: Variables and Hypotheses ; Lab 2: Errors in Reasoning ; Lab 3: Conceptual and Operational Definitions ; Lab 4: Levels of Measurement ; Lab 5: Quantitative Sampling Considerations ; Lab 6: Survey Design Issues ; Lab 7: Content Analysis-Instrument Pre-testing ; Lab 8: Content Analysis-Collecting the Data ; Lab 9: Content Analysis-Processing the Data ; Lab 10: Qualitative Field Observation ; Lab 11: Using Existing and Official Statistics ; Lab 12: Causal Thinking ; Tips for Lab Applications ; Index
