
Designing Experiments for the Social Sciences
How to Plan, Create, and Execute Research Using Experiments
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Designing Experiments for the Social Sciences
How to Plan, Create, and Execute Research Using Experiments
About this book
–Sarah El Sayed, University of Texas at Arlington
Designing Experiments for the Social Sciences: How to Plan, Create, and Execute Research Using Experiments is a practical, applied text for courses in experimental design. The text assumes that students have just a basic knowledge of the scientific method, and no statistics background is required. With its focus on how to effectively design experiments, rather than how to analyze them, the book concentrates on the stage where researchers are making decisions about procedural aspects of the experiment before interventions and treatments are given.
Renita Coleman walks readers step-by-step on how to plan and execute experiments from the beginning by discussing choosing and collecting a sample, creating the stimuli and questionnaire, doing a manipulation check or pre-test, analyzing the data, and understanding and interpreting the results. Guidelines for deciding which elements are best used in the creation of a particular kind of experiment are also given. This title offers rich pedagogy, ethical considerations, and examples pertinent to all social science disciplines.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Publisher Note
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Brief Contents
- Detailed Contents
- Preface
- About the Authors
- 1 Discovering Cause and Effect
- 2 Ethics and Famous Experiments in History
- 3 Theory, Literature, and Hypotheses
- 4 Types of Experiments
- 5 Internal and External Validity
- 6 Factorial Designs
- 7 Random Assignment
- 8 Sampling and Effect Sizes
- 9 Stimuli and Manipulation Checks
- 10 Instruments and Measures
- 11 The Institutional Review Board and Conducting Ethical Experiments
- Glossary
- Index