The Psychology Research Handbook - A Primer for Graduate Students and Research Assistants (Paperback)

Introduce your psychology research assistants to the research process the fast and cost-effective way!

Are you a faculty member who's been looking for a tool to effectively train research assistants without losing valuable research time?

Do you find yourself doing some of the basic components of a research project that could have been easily delegated to properly trained graduate students?

Faculty often face the dilemma of assigning work to students who have little or no experience in conducting a full-scale investigation. The Psychology Research Handbook helps solve this problem by providing a comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide for the beginning psychology researcher. Following the standard mode of research planning, design, data collection, statistical analysis, and results writing, individual chapters focus on integral tasks, including finding a topic, conducting literature searches, selecting instruments, designing surveys and questionnaires, sampling, applying for institutional approval, conducting mail and phone surveys, cleaning up a data set, using basic and advanced statistical analyses, doing qualitative analyses, and following the writing guidelines of the American Psychological Association. In addition, a special topics section gives advice on such issues as coordinating a research team, applying for grants, and using theory in research