"Quantitative and Statistical Research Methods offers a guide for psychology, counseling, and education students in the use of statistics and research designs, combined with guidance on using SPSS in the course of their research. Each chapter covers a research problem, taking the student through identifying research questions and hypotheses
identifying, classifying, and operationally defining the study variables
choosing appropriate research designs
conducting power analysis
choosing an appropriate statistic for the problem
using a data set
conducting data screening and analyses (SPSS)
interpreting the statistics
and writing the results related to the problem. Designed so students will know how to plan research and conduct statistical analyses using several different procedures"-- Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.