Publisher's Synopsis
Discovering the Scientist Within offers an utterly unique approach to the research methods course. Rather than taking students through statistical methods one at a time, the authors provide a series of realistic and engaging case studies with each design-focused chapter presenting a single study start to finish. These chapters, each with fully integrated online activities and resources in LaunchPad Solo, ask students to consider a specific scenario, then work through the essential steps of the study:
- formulate a research question
- review the literature
- construct a data collection method
- consider ethics
- refinine the method
- gather data
- interpret statistical results
- report the results in APA style
With this hands-on interactive format, students develop a better understanding of the way professional researchers work, and invaluable experience in the basic steps that comprise all studies.
