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| Promise and Problems | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Not Ready for Prime Time | |
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| What Students Say They Need | |
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| Plan of the Book | |
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| Career Paths for Behavioral Scientists | |
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| Summary | |
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| Recommended Readings | |
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| The Good, the Bad, and the (Really) Ugly of Behavioral Science Research | |
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| The Good | |
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| The Bad | |
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| The (Really) Ugly | |
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| Why? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Recommended Readings | |
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| Concepts | |
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| The Research Trinity | |
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| Trinity Overview | |
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| Design | |
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| Measurement | |
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| Analysis | |
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| Internal Validity | |
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| Construct Validity | |
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| Conclusion Validity | |
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| External Validity and Sampling | |
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| Summary | |
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| Recommended Readings | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Design and Analysis | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| From Question to Design | |
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| Experimental Designs | |
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| Controlled Quasi-Experimental Designs | |
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| Nonequivalent-Group Designs | |
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| Regression-Discontinuity Designs | |
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| Other Quasi-Experimental Designs | |
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| Nonexperimental Designs | |
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| Resources for Learning More | |
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| Summary | |
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| Recommended Readings | |
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| Exercises | |
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| The Truth about Statistics | |
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| Study Strategy | |
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| A Dozen Truths about Statistics | |
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| What Statistical Significance Really Means | |
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| Misinterpretations of Statistical Significance | |
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| Why Are There So Many Myths? | |
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| Other Drawbacks of Statistical Tests | |
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| In Defense of Statistical Tests | |
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| Recommendations for Changing Times | |
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| Summary | |
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| Recommended Readings | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Review of Statistics Fundamentals | |
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| Effect Size Estimation | |
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| Contexts for Estimating Effect Size | |
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| Families of Parametric Effect Sizes | |
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| Estimating Effect Size When Comparing Two Samples | |
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| Measures of Association for More Complex Designs | |
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| Effect Sizes for Dichotomous Outcomes | |
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| T-Shirt Effect Sizes, Importance, and Cautions | |
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| Approximate Confidence Intervals | |
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| Research Examples | |
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| Summary | |
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| Recommended Readings | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Noncentrality Interval Estimation for Effect Sizes | |
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| Measurement | |
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| Chapter Scope | |
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| The Critical Yet Underappreciated Role of Measurement | |
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| Measurement Process Overview | |
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| Resources for Finding Measures | |
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| Adapting or Translating Tests | |
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| Evaluation of Score Reliability and Validity | |
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| Checklist for Evaluating Measures | |
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| Recent Developments in Test Theory | |
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| Summary | |
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| Recommended Readings | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Skills | |
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| Practical Data Analysis | |
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| Vision First, Then Simplicity | |
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| Managing Complex Analyses (Batch to the Future) | |
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| Data Screening | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Writing | |
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| Plagiarism and Academic Integrity | |
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| Writing as Learning | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| The Role of Style Guides | |
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| General Principles of Good Writing | |
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| Principles of Good Scientific Writing | |
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| Writing Sections of Empirical Studies | |
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| Effective Graphical Displays | |
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| Ready for the Big Time | |
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| Summary | |
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| Recommended Readings | |
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| Example Results Section | |
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| Presentations | |
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| Challenges of Oral Presentations | |
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| Problems with PowerPoint Presentations | |
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| Principles for Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentations | |
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| Lessons from Multimedia Learning | |
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| Other PowerPoint Issues | |
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| Poster Presentations | |
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| Summary | |
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| Recommended Readings | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Example Slides, Handout, and Poster | |
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| Suggested Answers to Exercises | |
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| References | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Subject Index | |
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| About the Author | |