Conducting a survey : techniques for a term project /
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| Author / Creator: | Orcher, Lawrence T. |
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| Imprint: | Glendale, CA : Pyrczak Pub., c2007. |
| Description: | xii, 140 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Sampling (Statistics) Social surveys. Social sciences -- Statistical methods. Sampling (Statistics) Social sciences -- Statistical methods. Social surveys. |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8294742 |
Table of Contents:
- A survey as a term project
- Identifying a topic for a survey
- Formulating research purposes
- Locating related literature
- Writing a literature review
- Selecting a sample
- Identifying existing instruments
- Constructing instruments
- Measuring demographics
- Administering instruments
- Analysis: percentages
- Analysis: Averages and measures of variability
- Analysis: correlation
- Writing a survey research report
- App. A. Preparing a research proposal
- App. B. An overview of reliability and validity
- App. C. Introduction to statistical significance
- App. D. Free Internet programs to calculate statistics.