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An EasyGuide to Research Design & SPSS

• Beth M. Schwartz - Endicott College
• Janie H. Wilson - Georgia Southern University, USA
• Dennis M. Goff - Randolph College
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An EasyGuide to Research Design and SPSS® is an essential resource for students to successfully navigate and complete research projects. Using a clear, concise, and conversational writing style, authors Beth M. Schwartz, Janie H. Wilson, and Dennis M. Goff cover all of the most basic and common designs and analyses that students need to know for appropriately testing a hypothesis. The handbook includes step-by-step instructions accompanied by ample screenshots for working with data in SPSS ® , along with guidance on interpreting outputs and formatting results in APA style. The Second Edition features a streamlined organization, updated references, and new content on factorial designs, effect size, and G*Power. 

An excellent practical guide for education research.

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(Chapter 8) - (Repeated-Measures Designs)

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Beth M. Schwartz  is the Provost and Professor of Psychology at Endicott College. Previously she served as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost and Professor of Psychology at Heidelberg University, in Tiffin, Ohio. Dr. Schwartz started her career on the faculty at Randolph College (founded as Randolph-Macon Woman′s College) in Lynchburg, VA, where she served for 24 years. At Randolph she was the William E. and Catherine Ehrman Thoresen ‘23 Professor of Psychology and Assistant Dean of the College. She received a BA at Colby College (Maine) and a PhD in cognitive psychology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her scholarship focuses on the scholarship of teaching and learning/pedagogical research, in particular the issues surrounding academic integrity and honor systems. In addition to numerous professional presentations at conferences, she has published many book chapters and articles in a variety of scholarly journals, including the  Journal of Higher Education ,  Ethics and Behavior ,  Law and Human Behavior , and  Applied Developmental Science.  She has also edited and coauthored books, including  Child Abuse: A Global View (Schwartz, McCauley, & Epstein, 2001),  Optimizing Teaching and Learning  (Gurung & Schwartz, 2012), and  Evidence-Based Teaching for Higher Education  (Schwartz & Gurung, 2012).   She is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the American Psychological Society and is a Fellow of Division 2 of APA (Society for the Teaching of Psychology). She was an award-winning teacher at Randolph College, where she taught Introduction to Psychology, Research Methods, Cognitive Psychology, and the capstone course. She received the Award for Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring from the American Psych-Law Society, the Gillie A. Larew Award for Distinguished Teaching at Randolph College, the Katherine Graves Davidson Excellence in Scholarship Award from Randolph College, and the Distinguished Faculty Achievement Certificate from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia.

Janie Wilson received her PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of South Carolina in 1994. Since that time, she has been teaching and conducting research at Georgia Southern University. In the classroom, Dr. Wilson specializes in teaching and learning in statistics and research methods. Research interests include rapport in teaching based on empirical data on the first day of class, electronic communications, interactions with students in a traditional classroom, syllabus design, and the development and validation of the Professor-Student Rapport Scale. Recent publications include two brief texts with SAGE: An EasyGuide to Research Presentations and An EasyGuide to Research Design and SPSS. Along with her colleague, Shauna Joye, she recently published Research Methods and Statistics: An Integrated Approach with SAGE. Dr. Wilson has contributed numerous chapters to edited books and has co-edited several books related to teaching and learning. She has published extensively on the scholarship of teaching and learning and has offered over 60 conference presentations, including several invited keynote addresses. Dr. Wilson is the Past President of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP), Division Two of APA. 

Dennis M. Goff received his PhD in Experimental Psychology from Virginia Tech in 1985. He has been teaching and conducting research at Randolph College (formerly Randolph-Macon Woman’s College) since 1986. He specializes in teaching and learning in statistics and developmental psychology with a burgeoning interest in evolutionary psychology. In the past 27 years, he has mentored hundreds of senior psychology majors as they completed their independently designed research projects. In recent years, all of those seniors have presented their work at regional conferences, and a few have earned recognition for best undergraduate research projects. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. He has been recognized at Randolph by being named a Charles A. Dana Professor of Psychology and given the Gillie A. Larew Award for Teaching Excellence and the Katherine Graves Davidson Award for Excellence in Promoting the College.

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An EasyGuide to Research Design & SPSS

• Beth M. Schwartz - Endicott College
• Janie H. Wilson - Georgia Southern University, USA
• Dennis M. Goff - Randolph College
• Description

An EasyGuide to Research Design and SPSS® is an essential resource for students to successfully navigate and complete research projects. Using a clear, concise, and conversational writing style, authors Beth M. Schwartz, Janie H. Wilson, and Dennis M. Goff cover all of the most basic and common designs and analyses that students need to know for appropriately testing a hypothesis. The handbook includes step-by-step instructions accompanied by ample screenshots for working with data in SPSS ® , along with guidance on interpreting outputs and formatting results in APA style. The Second Edition features a streamlined organization, updated references, and new content on factorial designs, effect size, and G*Power. 

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• New Decision Trees help students understand the connection between research designs and statistical analyses.
• A new chapter on factorial designs facilitates use of this common design at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
• A new chapter on effect sizes meets the needs of publications and faculty who often require this statistical analysis of data.
• Step-by-step instructions explain how to use G*Power.
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• A student friendly writing style serves to inform readers without the use of other sources to understand terms and concepts.
• A Glossary defines terms that readers may not already be familiar with to ensure comprehension.
• Straightforward content makes the text ideal for new students as well as those wishing to re-familiarize themselves with the basics of research design and statistical analysis.

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An EasyGuide to Research Design and SPSS® is an essential resource for students to successfully navigate and complete research projects. Using a clear, concise, and conversational writing style, authors Beth M. Schwartz, Janie H. Wilson, and Dennis M. Goff cover all of the most basic and common designs and analyses that students need to know for appropriately testing a hypothesis. The handbook includes step-by-step instructions accompanied by ample screenshots for working with data in SPSS®, along with guidance on interpreting outputs and formatting results in APA style. The Second Edition features a streamlined organization, updated references, and new content on factorial designs, effect size, and G*Power. Â

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About the Authors

SECTION I. OVERVIEW OF BASIC DESIGN DECISIONS

1. The Marriage of Stats and Methods: ’til Death Do They Part

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Basic Steps of Research

2. Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, or Ratio: Why Your Type of Data Really Does Matter

Nominal Data

Ordinal Data

Interval Data

3. Designing Your Hypothesis: To KISS (Keep It Simple, Student) or to Complicate Matters

How Many Variables Should I Include?

How Many Participants Should I Include?

How Many Independent Variables Should I Include?

Including More Than One Independent Variable

Choosing the Number of Levels of Each Variable

Choosing Your Dependent Variables

Avoiding the Unmeasurable Dependent Variables

How Many Dependent Variables to Include

SECTION II. YOUR BASIC SPSS TOOLBOX

4. Why SPSS and Not Other Software, Your Calculator, Fingers, or Toes

5. Handling Your Data in SPSS: Columns, and Labels, and Values . . . Oh My!

The Structure of SPSS

When to Create Your Data File: Yes, Even Before Data Collection

Setting Up Your Data File

Importing Data

Naming and Labeling Your Variables

How to Keep Track and Remember the Details of Your Data File

Creating New Variables in Your Data File: Transformations

Calculating a Total or Mean Score

Recording Variables

Conducting Analyses With Only Part of Your Collected Data: Split File and Select Cases

6. Descriptive Statistics: Tell Me About It

Describing Nominal Data

Describing Ordinal Data

Describing Interval or Ratio Data

Describing Data With Two Samples

SECTION III. DESIGNS, STATISTICS, INTERPRETATION, AND WRITE-UP IN APA STYLE

7. Between-Groups Designs: Celebrate Your Independence!

One IV, Two Levels

Between Groups With Two Levels of an IV

Independent-Samples t-Test With a Quasi-IV

Between Groups With More Than Two Levels of an IV

Between Groups With More Than One IV

8. Repeated-Measures Designs: Everybody Plays!

One Independent Variable With Two Levels

Expanding the Number of Levels for Your Independent Variable

Adding Another Factor: Within-Subjects Factorial Designs

9. Advanced Research Designs: Complicating Matters

Mixed Designs: One Between Variable and One Repeated-Measures Variable

A Multivariate Design: Measuring It All Including More Than One Dependent Variable in Your Design

10. Correlational Analysis: How Do I Know If That Relationship Is Real?

Correlational Analysis: Two Variables

Prediction With Two Variables: Simple Linear Regression

Prediction With Several Variables: Multiple Linear Regression

11. Chi Square: Staying on the Same Frequency

What Do You Expect?

One-Way Chi Square With More Than Two Levels

Two-Way Chi Square

12. How Many Participants Do You Need? More Power to You!

Finding Power in SPSS’s General Linear Model

Using G*Power to Find Power

Planning Sample Sizes for Your Future Research

SECTION IV. A SUMMARY

13. Mapping Your Decisions: You Can Get There From Here

Making Basic Decisions About Your Design

Data With Distinct Groups

Interval or Ratio Data With Many Levels

14. APA Results Sections

t-Test for Independent Samples (True IV)

t-Test for Independent Samples (Pseudo-IV)

One-Way ANOVA for Independent Groups (True IV)

t-Test for Correlated Samples

One-Way ANOVA for Correlated Groups (Repeated Measures)

Factorial ANOVA for Correlated Groups (Repeated Measures)

Factorial ANOVA for Mixed Groups

Factorial ANOVA for Independent Groups

Analysis of Covariance

Pearson’s r Correlation

Pearson’s r Correlation and Simple Regression

15. Frequently Asked Questions: Did I Do That?

Questions About Research Design

Questions About Analyzing Your Data

Questions About Interpreting Your Data and Presenting Your Results

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An EasyGuide to Research Design & SPSS

• Beth M. Schwartz - Endicott College
• Janie H. Wilson - Georgia Southern University, USA
• Dennis M. Goff - Randolph College
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...Competition for books like this is fierce and the core elements of the book under review are very good: the language is expressive and always engaging, the examples are excellent and the integration of statistics and design is an essential one.

This is a good resource for beginner researchers who need to get more background on research designs, basic statistics and how to use SPSS. An interesting contribution is the chapter on the APA results sections where the writing up of the results are explained in detail.

Easy to read and understand, good illustrations making it easy for students to follow the steps through

Not adopted but will be included in additional readings for course.

Some of the images in book unclear making it difficult to engage with the text

Step by step direction with extreemly useful screen shots to reassure the novice.

As a supplement for the class members who will be using SPSS for their research projects.

I have chosen to use this book as a resource for students, but not as the required text.

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Beth M. Schwartz is the Provost and Professor of Psychology at Endicott College. Previously she served as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost and Professor of Psychology at Heidelberg University, in Tiffin, Ohio. Dr. Schwartz started her career on the faculty at Randolph College (founded as Randolph-Macon Woman's College) in Lynchburg, VA, where she served for 24 years. At Randolph she was the William E. and Catherine Ehrman Thoresen ‘23 Professor of Psychology and Assistant Dean of the College. She received a BA at Colby College (Maine) and a PhD in cognitive psychology at the State University of New York at... More About Author

Janie Hamn Wilson

Janie Wilson received her PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of South Carolina in 1994. Since that time, she has been teaching and conducting research at Georgia Southern University. In the classroom, Dr. Wilson specializes in teaching and learning in statistics and research methods. Research interests include rapport in teaching based on empirical data on the first day of class, electronic communications, interactions with students in a traditional classroom, syllabus design, and the development and validation of the Professor-Student Rapport Scale. Recent publications include two brief texts with SAGE: An EasyGuide to... More About Author

Dennis M. Goff

Dennis M. Goff received his PhD in Experimental Psychology from Virginia Tech in 1985. He has been teaching and conducting research at Randolph College (formerly Randolph-Macon Woman’s College) since 1986. He specializes in teaching and learning in statistics and developmental psychology with a burgeoning interest in evolutionary psychology. In the past 27 years, he has mentored hundreds of senior psychology majors as they completed their independently designed research projects. In recent years, all of those seniors have presented their work at regional conferences, and a few have earned recognition for best undergraduate research... More About Author

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