Events This Week
At the Library

• Message from the Head Librarian
• Keep Your Library Card Privileges
• Library Lessons
  • Lesson 1:  Correlational Designs
  • Lesson 2:  Survey Designs
  • Lesson 3:  Section III of Your Proposal
• Circulation Desk
• Next Week at the Library

A Message from
the Head Librarian

Welcome to your eighth week at the library and welcome to the third floor of the library.  Our lessons here for the next several weeks will focus on many of the possible research designs a researcher may choose to use as the framework for his or her study.

You should now have Section II under your belt.  We have also covered the material for Section III of your Proposal and you should be working on it over the next few weeks so you can combine it with Section IV for your final rough draft to turn in.  This week we are continuing our discussion of Section IV and focusing on experimental and quasi-experimental research designs.

I hope everyone has a great holiday weekend. With your lit review draft under your belt you have even more to celebrate:-)

APA TIDBIT

The APA tidbit selected for review this week is the reference entry for electronic media.  Some of you may have had a challenge to find a format example in the APA manual that had a good fit with the item you wanted to include in your reference list.

At a minimum, reference to an Internet source should provide a document title or description, a date, and an address.  Whenever possible, identify the authors of the document as well.  The URL is the most critical element.  If it doesn't work, readers cannot find the cited material.

The majority of documents retrieved from online publications in psychology and the behavioral sciences are exact duplicates of the print versions.  For these, use the same reference format as for a print document, but if you viewed it only in the electronic form add in brackets after the article title [Electronic version].  If you have reason to believe the electronic version has additional information or has been changed from the print version, add the date you retrieved it and the URL. 

The retrieval statement is specified and varies only for a few items: 

     Retrieved October 25, 2002, from http://jbr.org/articles.html 

Do not add a period at the end of the URL even though it ends the reference entry.  For specific directions and examples of constructing references to electronic documents, review pages 271-281 of the APA manual.

Our goals this week are to:

• Describe the different designs for explanation and prediction
• Describe key characteristics of correlational designs
• Distinguish between different types of measures of association and methods of calculating them
• Describe advanced statistical procedures for correlational designs
• Describe the process of conducting correlational study.
• Identify types of survey designs
• Describe key characteristics of survey designs
• Distinguish different methods of collecting data through questionnaires and interviews and how to design them
• Describe the steps in conducting survey research.

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Need Help?

Have a question but can't find the answer? Here are some options:

• Check the Course FAQ page to see if your question has already been answered.
• Check the Proposal FAQ page to see if your question has already been answered.
• Email the Head Librarian (Dr. Curda)*.
• Email the Assistant Librarian (Melissa)*.
• Check with the other library patrons.

*Remember to include your name and the course name (Educational Research) or number (EDF 6481) in your message.

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