First Steps in Research and Statistics: A Practical Workbook for Psychology Students (Electronic book text)

This approach to learning about quantitative methods assumes no previous knowledge or experience and every stage of the research process is covered. Key topics include: formulating research questions; how to choose the right statistical test for research design; important research issues, such as questionnaire design, ethics, sampling, reliability and validity; conducting simple statistics to explore relationships and differences in the data; writing statistics to explore relationships and differences in the data; and writing the research report and presenting statistics. Simple worksheets and flow diagrams guide the reader through the research stages and each chapter contains exercises with answers to check understanding.