Quantitative Research for Educators & Other Professionals
P. Vogt

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This concise text discusses a wide range of quantitative research methods, including advanced techniques such as logic regression, multilevel modeling, and structural equation modeling in a readable and logical manner. Because the text emphasizes concepts rather than mathematics and computation formulas, it is accessible to a wide range of users of research. Professional practitioners in areas such as education, business, social work, and psychology can also gain an understanding of research methods sufficient to base their work on advanced research in their fields. The text discusses the quantitative designs and analytic techniques most needed by students in the social sciences and in applied disciplines such as education, social work, and business. It teaches what the various methods mean, when to use them, and how to interpret their results. Since it emphasizes general understanding rather than mathematical foundations, students are able to review a broad range of methods in a comparatively short space. Accessible to readers of any level, including those with no mathematics beyond elementary arithmetic and a limited background in research methods and statistics, this text discusses advanced methods with ease. Practitioners in many professions can understand advanced methods sufficiently to base their practice on up-to-date advanced research in their fields.Organized into three parts - 1. The basics, 2. Advanced techniques, and 3. Specialized applications - to give instructors the flexibility to choose among the advanced techniques and specialized applications. Uses real data to illustrate and compare the uses of analytic techniques. Students are provided the data sets so they can use a statistical package to try out the techniques on their own. Helpful and thoughtful discussion questions end each chapter to help instructors and students probe subjects more deeply and apply the chapters' concepts to topics of particular interest to them.Contains integrated discussions of design and measurement as well as analysis, to provide students with a complete picture of the entire research process.An informative self-test comprised of multiple-choice and true-false questions concludes each chapter. Discussion of these questions and their answers is provided in the Instructor's Manual. An online Instructor's Manual contains suggestions for how to use these questions in teaching, as well as additional questions. The Manual also includes hundreds of additional field-tested test questions that instructors may use for their examinations. This manual is available by contacting your local representative.