Social Research Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches

QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE SAMPLING single-parent families and tend to be racial minori- ties. The family environment is one i ...

QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE SAMPLING EXAMPLE BOX 8 Hidden Populations CONCLUSION This chapter discussed probability and nonprob ...

QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE SAMPLING SUMMARY REVIEW BOX 1 Types of Samples EIGHT TYPES OF NONPROBABILITY SAMPLES Type of Sample ...

QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE SAMPLING Before you move on, it may be useful to restate a fundamental principle of all social rese ...

QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE SAMPLING NOTES See Stern (1979:77–81) and Beck (1983) on biased samples. Babbie (1998:196), Kalton ...

Appropriate Technique A Short History of the Experiment Random Assignment Experimental Design Logic Internal and External Validi ...

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH Compared to other social research techniques, experimental research offers the strongest tests of causal r ...

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH irrelevant or confounding variables(i.e., variables not a part of our hypothesis test). An analogy is the ...

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH EXAMPLE BOX 1 News Reports on Death Penalty Opinions We also can conduct mixed experimental and nonexperim ...

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH EXAMPLE BOX 2 Experimental and Survey Methods to Test and Apply Identity Theory James (1842–1910), a promi ...

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH entrenched in some areas. The experiment’s appeal was its objective, unbiased, scientific approach to stud ...

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH In the empirically based experiment, our goal is to determine whether an independent variable has a signif ...

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH comparisons. It means that a valid comparison de- pends on comparing what is fundamentally alike. There ar ...

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH FIGURE 1 Random Assignment and Random Sampling Random Assignment Random Sampling Population (Sampling Fram ...

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH and career aspirations of the two males? True matching soon becomes an impossible task. EXPERIMENTAL DESIG ...

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH intervenes with a physical or psychological treat- ment to change it. The treatment is the independent var ...

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH variables, we eliminate alternative explanations that could undermine our attempts to establish causality. ...

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH We use these preexperimental designsin situa- tions in which it is difficult to use the classical design. ...

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH are variations of the classical experimental design. Some have randomization but lack a pretest, some use ...

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH usage, and ends with map reading. The teacher gives tests to each class after each unit, and students take ...