The insights, techniques and skills needed to understand why some adult students have difficulties with learning a second language are presented in this book. The author's premise is that what appears on the surface is often not the real source of the learner's difficulty. A correct diagnosis of the cause of the problem is important if ......
Significance testing is a core topic in statistics because it is a useful technique for testing a hypothesis. Mohr introduces the reader to the topic by first reviewing what is meant by sampling distributions and probability distributions, and then examining in-depth normal and t-tests of significance. In addition to these topics, Mohr explores the uses and misuses of significance testing.
The study of social divisions has dominated research within the social sciences since the nineteenth century. Early stratification categories of class, race, and gender, have in more recent years been joined by issues such as sexuality and disability. Understanding Social Divisions addresses the full range of social divisions in one volume while ......
The study of social divisions has dominated research within the social sciences since the nineteenth century. Early stratification categories of class, race, and gender, have in more recent years been joined by issues such as sexuality and disability. Understanding Social Divisions addresses the full range of social divisions in one volume while ......
This is a book that should be read by anyone interested in class, inequality, poverty and politics. Actually, probably more importantly it should be read by people who think that those things do not matter! It provides a wonderful summation of the huge amount of work on these topics that now exists and it also offers its own distinctive ......
"This is a book that should be read by anyone interested in class, inequality, poverty and politics. Actually, probably more importantly it should be read by people who think that those things do not matter! It provides a wonderful summation of the huge amount of work on these topics that now exists and it also offers its own distinctive ......
The ability to read published research critically is essential and is different from the skills involved in undertaking research using statistical analysis. This second edition of the best selling Evaluating Social Science Research explains in clear and straightforward terms how students can evaluate research, with particular emphasis on research involving some aspect of measurement. Thomas R Black covers fundamental concepts comprehensively, including research design, data collection and data analysis. He addresses the following major issues: are the questions and hypotheses advanced appropriate and testable? is the research design sufficient for the hypothesis? is the data gathered valid, reliable and objective? are the statistical techniques used to analyze the data appropriate and do they support the conclusions reached? Each of the chapters from the new edition has been thoroughly updated, with particular emphasis on improving and increasing the range of activities for students. Coverage has been broadened to include: a wider range of research designs; a section on research ethics; item analysis; the definition of standard deviation with a guide for calculation; the concept of 'power' in statistical inference; calculating correlations; a description of the difference between parametric and non-parametric tests in terms of research questions
The ability to read published research critically is essential and is different from the skills involved in undertaking research using statistical analysis. This second edition of the best selling Evaluating Social Science Research explains in clear and straightforward terms how students can evaluate research, with particular emphasis on research involving some aspect of measurement. Thomas R Black covers fundamental concepts comprehensively, including research design, data collection and data analysis. He addresses the following major issues: are the questions and hypotheses advanced appropriate and testable? is the research design sufficient for the hypothesis? is the data gathered valid, reliable and objective? are the statistical techniques used to analyze the data appropriate and do they support the conclusions reached? Each of the chapters from the new edition has been thoroughly updated, with particular emphasis on improving and increasing the range of activities for students. Coverage has been broadened to include: a wider range of research designs; a section on research ethics; item analysis; the definition of standard deviation with a guide for calculation; the concept of 'power' in statistical inference; calculating correlations; a description of the difference between parametric and non-parametric tests in terms of research questions
`This book is highly recommended for libraries and departments to adopt. If I had to teach a statistics class for sociology students this would be a book I would surely choose. The book achieves two very important goals: it teaches students a software package and trains them in the statistical analysis of sociological data' - Journal of Applied Statistics This fully revised, expanded and updated Second Edition of the best-selling textbook by Jane Fielding and Nigel Gilbert provides a comprehensive yet accessible guide to quantitative data analysis. Designed to help take the fear out of the use of numbers in social research, this textbook introduces students to statistics as a powerful means of revealing patterns in human behaviour. The textbook covers everything typically included in an introductory course on social statistics for students in the social sciences and the authors have taken the opportunity of this Second Edition to bring the data sources as current as possible. The book is full of up-to-date examples and useful and clear illustrations using the latest SPSS software. While maintaining the student-friendly elements of the first, such as chapter summaries, exercises at the end of each chapter, and a glossary of key terms, new features to this edition include: - Updated examples and references SPSS coverage and screen-shots now incorporate the current version 14.0 and are used to demonstrate the latest social statistics datasets; - Additions to content include a brand new section on developing a coding frame and an additional discussion of weighting counts as a means of analyzing published statistics; - Enhanced design aids navigation which is further simplified by the addition of core objectives for each chapter and bullet-pointed chapter summaries; - The updated Website at http:/www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/uss/index.html reflects changes made to the text and provides updated datasets; A valuable and practical guide for students dealing with the large amounts of data that are typically collected in social surveys, the Second Edition of Understanding Social Statistics is an essential textbook for courses on statistics and quantitative research across the social sciences.
