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By design : planning research on higher education, Richard J. Light, Judith D. Singer, John B. Willett
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 272 pages)
- Contents
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- CONTENTS -- 1. Why Do Research on Higher Education? -- Many Questions, Many Options -- Our Philosophy of Research Design -- How This Book Is Organized -- 2. What Are Your Questions? -- Why Are Research Questions So Important? -- Getting Specific -- Building on the Work of Others -- Correlation versus Causation -- The Wheel of Science -- 3. What Groups Do You Want to Study? -- Specifying the Target Population -- Where Should You Conduct the Study? -- Selecting Your Sample -- More Than One Type of Respondent -- Nonresponse Bias
- 4. What Predictors Do You Want to Study?Types of Predictors -- The Important Role of Variation -- Other Reasons for Selecting Predictors -- The Integrity of Your Treatment -- Choosing Which Predictors to Study -- 5. Compared to What? -- Why Do You Need a Comparison Group? -- Randomized Control Groups: The Best Comparisons -- Requiring Informed Consent -- Volunteer Bias -- Comparison Groups without Random Assignment -- Retrospective Case-control Studies -- Design Effects Can Swamp Treatment Effects -- 6. What Are Your Outcomes? -- Different Kinds of Outcomes
- Will You Measure Status or Development?Short-term versus Long-term Effects -- Are Your Measures Valid? -- 7. How Can You Improve Your Measures? -- What Is Measurement Error? -- Reliability and Measurement Error -- Six Strategies for Improving Measurement Quality -- Looking at Measurement Quality -- 8. How Many People Should You Study? -- Why Is Sample Size So Important? -- What Size Effect Do You Want to Detect? -- What Type of Analysis Will You Use? -- Instrument Precision and Sample Size -- What If Students Drop Out?
- 9. Should You Try It out on a Small Scale?The Advantages of Pilot Studies -- Piloting Instruments -- Relational Studies -- Informal Small-scale Experiments -- Generalizing from a Small Study -- 10. Where Should You Go from Here? -- Getting Started -- Lessons from Our Seminar -- Decisions You Must Make -- Planning a Longer-term Research Program -- References -- Index
- Isbn
- 9780674040267
- Label
- By design : planning research on higher education
- Title
- By design
- Title remainder
- planning research on higher education
- Statement of responsibility
- Richard J. Light, Judith D. Singer, John B. Willett
- Subject
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- Bildungsforschung
- EDUCATION -- General
- EDUCATION -- Higher
- Education, Higher -- Research
- Education, Higher -- Research -- United States
- Effizienz
- Enseignement supérieur -- Recherche -- États-Unis
- Ensino superior
- Hochschule
- Hoger onderwijs
- Höheres Bildungswesen
- Onderzoek
- Pesquisa educacional
- Tertiärbereich
- USA
- United States
- Universities and colleges -- Evaluation
- Universities and colleges -- United States -- Evaluation
- Universités -- États-Unis -- Évaluation
- Language
- eng
- Action
- digitized
- Cataloging source
- OCLCE
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Light, Richard J
- Dewey number
- 378/.0072073
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- English
- LC call number
- LB2326.3
- LC item number
- .L54 1990
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Singer, Judith D
- Willett, John B
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Education, Higher
- Universities and colleges
- Enseignement supérieur
- Universités
- EDUCATION
- EDUCATION
- Education, Higher
- Universities and colleges
- United States
- Höheres Bildungswesen
- Bildungsforschung
- Effizienz
- Tertiärbereich
- Hochschule
- Hoger onderwijs
- Onderzoek
- Ensino superior
- Pesquisa educacional
- USA
- Summary expansion
- Do students who work longer and harder learn more in college? Does joining a fraternity with a more academic flavor enhance a student's academic performance? When are the results from an innovation that is tried on one campus applicable to other campuses? How many students and faculty members must participate in a research project before findings are valid? Do students learn best when they study alone or in small groups? These are just some more than fifty examples that Richard Light Judith Singer and John Willett explore in By Design, a lively nontechnical sourcebook for learning about colleges and universities. These authors believe that careful design of research on college effectiveness is the single most important step toward producing useful and valid findings. In that spirit, By Design is a pathbreaking textbook of modern research methods that both practitioners and students will find useful
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- By design : planning research on higher education, Richard J. Light, Judith D. Singer, John B. Willett
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- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-262)
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- CONTENTS -- 1. Why Do Research on Higher Education? -- Many Questions, Many Options -- Our Philosophy of Research Design -- How This Book Is Organized -- 2. What Are Your Questions? -- Why Are Research Questions So Important? -- Getting Specific -- Building on the Work of Others -- Correlation versus Causation -- The Wheel of Science -- 3. What Groups Do You Want to Study? -- Specifying the Target Population -- Where Should You Conduct the Study? -- Selecting Your Sample -- More Than One Type of Respondent -- Nonresponse Bias
- 4. What Predictors Do You Want to Study?Types of Predictors -- The Important Role of Variation -- Other Reasons for Selecting Predictors -- The Integrity of Your Treatment -- Choosing Which Predictors to Study -- 5. Compared to What? -- Why Do You Need a Comparison Group? -- Randomized Control Groups: The Best Comparisons -- Requiring Informed Consent -- Volunteer Bias -- Comparison Groups without Random Assignment -- Retrospective Case-control Studies -- Design Effects Can Swamp Treatment Effects -- 6. What Are Your Outcomes? -- Different Kinds of Outcomes
- Will You Measure Status or Development?Short-term versus Long-term Effects -- Are Your Measures Valid? -- 7. How Can You Improve Your Measures? -- What Is Measurement Error? -- Reliability and Measurement Error -- Six Strategies for Improving Measurement Quality -- Looking at Measurement Quality -- 8. How Many People Should You Study? -- Why Is Sample Size So Important? -- What Size Effect Do You Want to Detect? -- What Type of Analysis Will You Use? -- Instrument Precision and Sample Size -- What If Students Drop Out?
- 9. Should You Try It out on a Small Scale?The Advantages of Pilot Studies -- Piloting Instruments -- Relational Studies -- Informal Small-scale Experiments -- Generalizing from a Small Study -- 10. Where Should You Go from Here? -- Getting Started -- Lessons from Our Seminar -- Decisions You Must Make -- Planning a Longer-term Research Program -- References -- Index
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- 658897522
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 272 pages)
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- Label
- By design : planning research on higher education, Richard J. Light, Judith D. Singer, John B. Willett
- Antecedent source
- file reproduced from original
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-262)
- Carrier category
- online resource
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- txt
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- rdacontent
- Contents
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- CONTENTS -- 1. Why Do Research on Higher Education? -- Many Questions, Many Options -- Our Philosophy of Research Design -- How This Book Is Organized -- 2. What Are Your Questions? -- Why Are Research Questions So Important? -- Getting Specific -- Building on the Work of Others -- Correlation versus Causation -- The Wheel of Science -- 3. What Groups Do You Want to Study? -- Specifying the Target Population -- Where Should You Conduct the Study? -- Selecting Your Sample -- More Than One Type of Respondent -- Nonresponse Bias
- 4. What Predictors Do You Want to Study?Types of Predictors -- The Important Role of Variation -- Other Reasons for Selecting Predictors -- The Integrity of Your Treatment -- Choosing Which Predictors to Study -- 5. Compared to What? -- Why Do You Need a Comparison Group? -- Randomized Control Groups: The Best Comparisons -- Requiring Informed Consent -- Volunteer Bias -- Comparison Groups without Random Assignment -- Retrospective Case-control Studies -- Design Effects Can Swamp Treatment Effects -- 6. What Are Your Outcomes? -- Different Kinds of Outcomes
- Will You Measure Status or Development?Short-term versus Long-term Effects -- Are Your Measures Valid? -- 7. How Can You Improve Your Measures? -- What Is Measurement Error? -- Reliability and Measurement Error -- Six Strategies for Improving Measurement Quality -- Looking at Measurement Quality -- 8. How Many People Should You Study? -- Why Is Sample Size So Important? -- What Size Effect Do You Want to Detect? -- What Type of Analysis Will You Use? -- Instrument Precision and Sample Size -- What If Students Drop Out?
- 9. Should You Try It out on a Small Scale?The Advantages of Pilot Studies -- Piloting Instruments -- Relational Studies -- Informal Small-scale Experiments -- Generalizing from a Small Study -- 10. Where Should You Go from Here? -- Getting Started -- Lessons from Our Seminar -- Decisions You Must Make -- Planning a Longer-term Research Program -- References -- Index
- Control code
- 658897522
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xvii, 272 pages)
- File format
- one file format
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780674040267
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctv1kkhcmd
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)658897522
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Subject
- Bildungsforschung
- EDUCATION -- General
- EDUCATION -- Higher
- Education, Higher -- Research
- Education, Higher -- Research -- United States
- Effizienz
- Enseignement supérieur -- Recherche -- États-Unis
- Ensino superior
- Hochschule
- Hoger onderwijs
- Höheres Bildungswesen
- Onderzoek
- Pesquisa educacional
- Tertiärbereich
- USA
- United States
- Universities and colleges -- Evaluation
- Universities and colleges -- United States -- Evaluation
- Universités -- États-Unis -- Évaluation
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