Table of Contents
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I |
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Introduction |
3 |
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Not Ready for
Prime Time |
4 |
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What Students
Say They Need |
7 |
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Plan of the Book |
7 |
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Career Paths
for Behavioral Scientists |
10 |
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Summary |
12 |
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Recommended |
13 |
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The Good, the Bad, and the
(Really) Ugly of Behavioral Science Research |
15 |
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The Good |
16 |
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The Bad |
21 |
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The (Really)
Ugly |
27 |
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Why? |
30 |
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Summary |
34 |
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Recommended |
34 |
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II |
CONCEPTS |
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3 |
The Research Trinity |
39 |
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Trinity Overview |
39 |
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Design |
41 |
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Measurement |
46 |
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Analysis |
47 |
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Internal
Validity |
54 |
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Construct
Validity |
62 |
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Conclusion
Validity |
64 |
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External
Validity and Sampling |
67 |
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Summary |
70 |
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Recommended |
71 |
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Exercises |
71 |
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4 |
Design and Analysis |
73 |
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Chapter Overview |
74 |
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From Question
to Design |
74 |
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Experimental
Designs |
76 |
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Controlled
Quasi-Experimental Designs |
92 |
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Nonequivalent-Group
Designs |
94 |
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Regression-Discontinuity
Designs |
103 |
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Other
Quasi-Experimental Designs |
107 |
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Nonexperimental
Designs |
111 |
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Resources for
Learning More |
112 |
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Summary |
112 |
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Recommended |
114 |
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Exercises |
114 |
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The Truth About Statistics |
117 |
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Study Strategy |
117 |
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A Dozen Truths
About Statistics |
118 |
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What
Statistical Significance Really Means |
121 |
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Misinterpretations
of Statistical Significance |
124 |
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Why are there
So Many Myths? |
130 |
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Other Drawbacks
of Statistical Tests |
132 |
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In Defense of
Statistical Tests |
135 |
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Recommendations
for Changing Times |
136 |
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Summary |
138 |
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Recommended |
138 |
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Exercises |
139 |
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Appendix 5.1 |
140 |
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Effect Size Estimation |
153 |
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Contexts for
Estimating Effect Size |
154 |
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Families of
Parametric Effect Sizes |
155 |
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Estimating
Effect Size When Comparing Two Samples |
158 |
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Measures of
Association for More Complex Designs |
166 |
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Effect Sizes
for Dichotomous Outcomes |
169 |
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T-Shirt Effect
Sizes, Importance, and Cautions |
172 |
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Approximate
Confidence Intervals |
175 |
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Research
Examples |
178 |
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Summary |
184 |
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Recommended |
184 |
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Exercises |
185 |
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Appendix 6.1 |
186 |
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Measurement |
191 |
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Chapter Scope |
291 |
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The Critical
Yet Underappreciated Role of Measurement |
193 |
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Measurement
Process Overview |
194 |
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Resources for
Finding Measures |
200 |
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Adapting or
Translating Tests |
204 |
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Evaluation of
Score Reliability and Validity |
205 |
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Checklist for
Evaluating Measures |
216 |
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Recent
Developments in Test Theory |
217 |
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Summary |
220 |
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Recommended |
221 |
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Exercises |
221 |
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III |
SKILLS |
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Practical Data Analysis |
225 |
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Vision First,
Then Simplicity |
225 |
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Managing
Complex Analyses (Batch to the Future) |
229 |
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Data Screening |
233 |
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Summary |
249 |
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Recommended |
249 |
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Exercises |
250 |
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9 |
Writing |
253 |
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Plagiarism, and
Academic Integrity |
253 |
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Writing as
Learning |
254 |
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Getting Started |
254 |
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The Role of
Style Guides |
255 |
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General
Principles of Good Writing |
256 |
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Principles of
Good Scientific Writing |
261 |
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Writing
Sections of Empirical Studies |
263 |
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Effective
Graphical Displays |
273 |
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Ready for the
Big Time |
276 |
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Summary |
278 |
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Recommended |
279 |
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Appendix 9.1 |
280 |
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Presentations |
283 |
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Challenges of
Oral Presentations |
283 |
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Problems with
PowerPoint Presentations |
286 |
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Principles for
Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentations |
289 |
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Lessons from
Multimedia Learning |
299 |
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Other
PowerPoint Issues |
300 |
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Poster
Presentations |
302 |
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Summary |
305 |
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Recommended |
305 |
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Exercises |
306 |
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Appendix 10.1 |
307 |
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Suggested
Answers to Exercises |
313 |
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References |
333 |
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Author Index |
347 |
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Subject Index |
353 |
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About the Author |
367 |
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