Kerlinger, Fred N.

Foundation of behavioral research : educational and psychological inquiry / Fred N. Kerlinger. - London : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1964. - xix, 739 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface

Part 1; The Language and Approach of science
Chapter 1; Science and the Scientific Approach
Chapter 2; Problems and Hypotheses
Chapter 3; Constructs, Variables, and Definitions
Chapter 4; Sampling an Randomness

Part Two Sets, Revelations and Variance
Chapter 5; Sets
Chapter 6; Relations
Chapter 7; Variance

Part Three; Probability and Statistical Inference
Chapter 8; Probability
Chapter 9; Statistics; Purpose, Approach and Method
Chapter 10; Statistics; The Standard Error
Chapter 11; Analysis of Variance; Foundations
Chapter 12; Analysis of variance ; Factorial Analysis
Chapter 13; Analysis of variance ;Correlated Groups
Chapter 14; Non parametric Statistics

Part Four. Designs of Research
Chapter 15; Research Design; Meaning, Purpose and Principles
Chapter 16; General Designs of Research; Poor Designs
Chapter 17; General Designs of research; Good designs
Chapter 18; Research Design and Applications; Correlated Groups
Chapter 19; Research Design and Applications Correlated Groups

Part Five. Types of Research
Chapter 20; Ex Post Facto Research
Chapter 21; Laboratory Experiments, Field Experiments and Field Studies
Chapter 22; Survey Research

Part Six. Measurement
Chapter 23; Foundations of measurement
Chapter 24; Reliability
Chapter 25; Validity

Part Seven. Methods of observation and data collection
Chapter 26; Interviews and Interviews schedules
Chapter 27; Objective Tests and Scales
Chapter 28; Observations of Behavior
Chapter 29; Projective Methods
Chapter 30; Available materials and content analysis
Chapter 31; Sociometry

Chapter 32; The Sematic Differences
Chapter 33; Q Methodology
Part Eight. Analysis and Interpretation
Chapter 34; Principles of Analysis and Interpretation
Chapter 35; The Analysis of Cross breaks
Chapter 36; Factor Analysis

Includes index


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