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An EasyGuide to Research Design & SPSS
- Beth M. Schwartz - Endicott College
- Janie H. Wilson - Georgia Southern University, USA
- Dennis M. Goff - Randolph College
Series:
EasyGuide Series
EasyGuide Series
296 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
An EasyGuide to Experimental Design and SPSS is a handbook that provides clear and concise guidance for research methods students faced with the many decisions involved in developing the most appropriate strategy to test a hypothesis. By presenting an integrated approach to the choice of design and statistical analysis this handbook helps students connect the choice of experimental design with the choice of an appropriate statistical test for data analyses. The EasyGuide also presents the exact steps to analyze data in SPSS, including ample screenshots. The authors provide a how-to for interpreting the output from SPSS analyses, and they help students format the relevant SPSS output into an APA-style results section.
Section 1: Overview Basic Design Decisions
Chapter 1: Marriage – ‘Til Death Do Us Part
Chapter 2: The Two Faces of Correlation
Chapter 3: Why Your Type fo Data Really Does Matter: Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, or Ratio
Chapter 4: To KISS (Keep It Simply Student) or to Complicate Matters: Nominal Data
Section II: Your Basic SPSS Tool Box
Chapter 5: Why SPSS and Not Other Software, Your Calculator, Fingers, or Toes
Chapter 6: SPSS Data Hygiene: Columns, and Labels, and Values….Oh My.
Chapter 7: Tell Me About It: Descriptive Statistics
Section III: Designs, Statistics, Interpretaion, and Write-Up in APA Style
Chapter 8: Celebrate Your Independence!: Between-Groups Designs
Chapter 9: Everybody Plays!: Repeated-Measures Designs
Chapter 10: Complicating Matters: Advanced Research Designs
Chapter 11: How do I know if That Relationship is Real? Correlations
Chapter 12: Statistics Charades: Two Variables, Two Categories…..is it a Chi Square?
Section IV: Summary
Chapter 13: Mapping Your Decisions: You Can Get There From Here
Chapter 14: Sample Results Sections for Each Type of Design
Chapter 15: Did I do that? Taking Advice From the Experts
...Competition for books like this is fierce and the core elements of the book under review are very good: the language is expressive and always engaging, the examples are excellent and the integration of statistics and design is an essential one.
Psychology Learning and Teaching
This is a good resource for beginner researchers who need to get more background on research designs, basic statistics and how to use SPSS. An interesting contribution is the chapter on the APA results sections where the writing up of the results are explained in detail.
Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, University of Pretoria
October 8, 2015
Easy to read and understand, good illustrations making it easy for students to follow the steps through
Dept of Economics and Business Studies, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
June 8, 2015
Not adopted but will be included in additional readings for course.
My dept is not listed business, Palo Alto College
January 23, 2015
Some of the images in book unclear making it difficult to engage with the text
FHSC, London South Bank University
October 13, 2014
Step by step direction with extreemly useful screen shots to reassure the novice.
occupational therapy, University of Teesside
September 29, 2014
As a supplement for the class members who will be using SPSS for their research projects.
Psychology Dept, San Jose State University
August 23, 2014
I have chosen to use this book as a resource for students, but not as the required text.
Counselor Education , Lesley University
July 15, 2014