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1 online resource (xvii, 272 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-262). |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Contents |
""CONTENTS""; ""1. Why Do Research on Higher Education?""; ""Many Questions, Many Options""; ""Our Philosophy of Research Design""; ""How This Book Is Organized""; ""2. What Are Your Questions?""; ""Why Are Research Questions So Important?""; ""Getting Specific""; ""Building on the Work of Others""; ""Correlation versus Causation""; ""The Wheel of Science""; ""3. What Groups Do You Want to Study?""; ""Specifying the Target Population""; ""Where Should You Conduct the Study?""; ""Selecting Your Sample""; ""More Than One Type of Respondent""; ""Nonresponse Bias"" |
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""4. What Predictors Do You Want to Study?""""Types of Predictors""; ""The Important Role of Variation""; ""Other Reasons for Selecting Predictors""; ""The Integrity of Your Treatment""; ""Choosing Which Predictors to Study""; ""5. Compared to What?""; ""Why Do You Need a Comparison Group?""; ""Randomized Control Groups: The Best Comparisons""; ""Requiring Informed Consent""; ""Volunteer Bias""; ""Comparison Groups without Random Assignment""; ""Retrospective Case-control Studies""; ""Design Effects Can Swamp Treatment Effects""; ""6. What Are Your Outcomes?""; ""Different Kinds of Outcomes"" |
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""Will You Measure Status or Development?""""Short-term versus Long-term Effects""; ""Are Your Measures Valid?""; ""7. How Can You Improve Your Measures?""; ""What Is Measurement Error?""; ""Reliability and Measurement Error""; ""Six Strategies for Improving Measurement Quality""; ""Looking at Measurement Quality""; ""8. How Many People Should You Study?""; ""Why Is Sample Size So Important?""; ""What Size Effect Do You Want to Detect?""; ""What Type of Analysis Will You Use?""; ""Instrument Precision and Sample Size""; ""What If Students Drop Out?"" |
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""9. Should You Try It out on a Small Scale?""""The Advantages of Pilot Studies""; ""Piloting Instruments""; ""Relational Studies""; ""Informal Small-scale Experiments""; ""Generalizing from a Small Study""; ""10. Where Should You Go from Here?""; ""Getting Started""; ""Lessons from Our Seminar""; ""Decisions You Must Make""; ""Planning a Longer-term Research Program""; ""References""; ""Index"" |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Education, Higher -- Research -- United States.
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Education, Higher -- Research. |
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United States. |
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Universities and colleges -- United States -- Evaluation.
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Universities and colleges. |
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Evaluation. |
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Higher education Research |
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United States |
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Electronic books.
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Singer, Judith D.
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Willett, John B.
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Print version: Light, Richard J. By design. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1990 (DLC) 89036311 (OCoLC)20013417 |
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9780674040267 (electronic book) |
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0674040260 (electronic book) |
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0674089308 (alkaline paper) |
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9780674089303 (alkaline paper) |
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0674089316 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780674089310 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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