Conducting Research

I. GETTING STARTED.

1. What Is Research?
2. Ethical and Legal Issues.
3. Selecting a Topic.

II. DEVELOPING THE PROJECT.

4. Reviewing the Literature.
5. Quantitative Research Approaches for Large Groups.
6. Single Subject Designs.
7. Qualitative Research Approaches.
8. Selecting Subjects.
9. Measurement in Quantitative and Qualitative Research.
10. Defining the Independent Variable in Quantitative Research.

III. DETERMINING HOW THE DATA WILL BE ANALYZED.

11. Organizing and Describing Data.
12. Analyzing Data from Large Group Quantitative Research.
13. Analyzing Data from Single Subject Designs.
14. Analyzing Data from Qualitative Research Approaches.

IV. IMPLEMENTING AND REPORTING THE PROJECT.

15. Preparing and Defending a Research Proposal.
16. Conducting and Reporting Your Research Project.

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