(Larger Image)
|
Exploring Research
by Neil J. Salkind
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Prentice Hall (2002-06-18)
ISBN: 0130983527
EAN: 9780130983527
Dewy Decimal #: 150.72
Paperback: 320 pages
SKU: 6821
Condition: Good
|
Editorial Reviews
|
Product Description
The fifth edition of Exploring Research provides an introduction to research methods in a friendly, approachable writing style. The book explores the use of electronic sources as means to enhance research skills, includes discussions about scientific methods, and the most common types of research in the social and behavioral sciences. Coverage of the research process, problem selection, sampling and generalizability, and the measurement process provides an exhaustive resource for readers seeking to further their research skills. The book also describes how to collect and analyze data, and provides thorough instruction on how to prepare and write a research proposal and manuscript. Principles of data analysis are exemplified using the SR latest version of SPSS. The volume addresses the role and importance of research, the research process, sampling and generalizability, measurement, reliability, and validity, methods of measuring behavior, data collection and descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, nonexperimental research methods, quasi-experimental research methods and writing a research proposal and manuscript. For individuals in business, social work, political science, education and psychology fields that require research.
|
Customer Reviews
|
Excellent Textbook
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-11-10
I really enjoyed reading this textbook. It gives me the whole picture from outside. If you are working on developing test or conducting an analysis or a research, this textbook is suitable for you. The language used is easy to comprehend. Although I have finished the course with University of Phoenix online that is associated with this textbook, I am still reading and reading this textbook. Really, it worths buying it.
|
|
Tons of Errors!
Rating  (2)
Date: 2008-09-07
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
While this book is written in a very "user-friendly" style, the amount of typographical, stylistic, and grammatical errors is incredibly distracting! For a book that's supposed to discuss the precision of research methodology, it certainly has a long way to go in being accurate. It seems that on almost every page there is a typographical or grammatical error, which is completely unacceptable in a professional resource (even if it is targeted towards "beginners"). There are a couple of chapters in which entire sections seem been left out and others that are very sloppily edited.
Surely the author could have forked over a couple hundred bucks to get a professional (or even a half-intelligent grad student!) to proofread it. It is in its seventh edition, after all.
If copious amounts of unprofessional errors irritate you in a textbook, avoid this one.
|
|
A Great Introductory Research Book
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-12-05
11 out of 11 customers found this reveiw helpful
Having previously purchased a required research textbook that was written in a truly "mind-numbing" fashion, I went online to find a supplemental text. I was looking for something to help me develop some background knowledge in order to better understand my assigned readings. I consider myself very lucky for having found "Exploring Research". The writing style is very straightforward. I was easily able to read the textbook within a few days, and this made understanding the assigned readings in my course textbook much easier to do.
Easy to understand charts are used to illustrate points and organize the information. Practical resources are given to assist in developing a Literature Review. Rather than simply telling the reader to read a research study "critically", the author provides a list of specific questions an introductory student can ask themselves for each section of a report being read. As a supplemental text for the beginning student, this book is a wonderful resource for making sense of the basic research concepts.
Chapters include:
The Role and Importance of Research
The Research Process: Coming to Terms
Selecting a Problem and Reviewing the Research
Sampling and Generalizability
Measurement, Reliability, and Validity
Methods of Measuring Behavior
Data Collection and Descriptive Statistics
Introducing Inferential Statistics
Nonexperimental Research: Descriptive and Correlational Methods
Nonexperimental Research: Qualitative Methods
Pre- and True Experimental Research Methods
Quasi-Experimental Research: A Close Cousin to Experimental
Research
Writing a Research Proposal
Writing a Research Manuscript
|
|
The Best!
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-05-23
12 out of 12 customers found this reveiw helpful
Regardless of what your research needs are, this books could be called "research for dummies" in its excellent and easy-to-follow explanations. Buy this book, even if your required text is something else - It's filled with examples and can be read like an adventure novel in bed WHILE being truly comprehended! I've taken statistics, research classes, etc. - I wished I had read this book along with my first class! There's nothing dry about this and 1000 words are too few to praise it adequately!
|
|
Impressive
Rating (5)
Date: 2001-05-24
2 out of 20 customers found this reveiw helpful
One can read the pictures of a book to define the logic or knowledge in it. How? Look at the many different views. What scans through ones mind? The past. It did mine. Fifty dollars is just the beginning of an adventures enterance into the unknown. Have a great day! Norma
|
|
Retail Price: $81.20
Our Price:$5.25
That's 94% Off!
 |
|