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ISBN 10: 1506377319
ISBN 13: 9781506377315
Author:   Renita Coleman

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.

Table of contents:

1. • Discovering Cause and Effect

Causation

Experiments Compared to Other Methods

Basic Criteria for Experiments

2. • Ethics and Famous Experiments in History

The Scurvy Studies

The Contributions of Charles Peirce

3. • Theory, Literature, and Hypotheses

The Literature Review

Tips on Writing the Literature Review for Experiments

It Is Not a Book Report

4. • Types of Experiments

Campbell and Stanley’s Typology of Experiments

Three Pre-Experimental Designs

The One-Shot Case Study

One Group Pretest–Posttest Design

5. • Internal and External Validity

Ecological and External Validity

Generalizability

Random Sampling

Two-Step Randomization

6. • Factorial Designs

Single-Factor Designs

Factorial Designs

Main Effects and Interactions

7. • Random Assignment

The Purpose of Random Assignment

Avoiding Confounds

What Is Random?

Operationalizing Random Assignment

8. • Sampling and Effect Sizes

Student Samples

Higher Than Average Cognitive Skills

Compliance With Authority

9. • Stimuli and Manipulation Checks

Examples of Stimuli

Advice on Creating Stimuli

Keep It Real

10. • Instruments and Measures

Instruments

Questionnaires

Single Items vs. Indexes

Pros and Cons

11. • The Institutional Review Board and Conducting Ethical Experiments

Institutional Review Boards

Ethical Issues in Experiments

Deception

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