Chapter 7: Research Design Explained

1. You are now at the Chapter 7 section of the book's student Web site. Here you can
   1. Look over the concept map of the key terms and look at a glossary of the key terms.
   2. Test yourself on the chapter objectives
   3. Test yourself on the key terms.
      • Quick matching test
      • Download a more challenging matching test (requires Windows)

   4. Take the Practice Quiz (a short, general quiz over the entire chapter).
      • Take six-item quizzes over the first part of the chapter.
        • Quiz A
        • Quiz B
      • Take seven-item quizzes over the second part of the chapter.
        • Quiz A
        • Quiz B
      • Take 12-item quizzes over the third part of the chapter.
        • Quiz A
        • Quiz B
      • Take 14-item quizzes over the four part of the chapter.
        • Quiz A
        • Quiz B

   5. Review by looking at the key issues and reading the chapter summary.
2. Get a better sense of what descriptive research is like by participating in research that uses a descriptive method or by going through this tutorial.
3. Become more comfortable with descriptive research by
   1. Going through the correlator tutorial
      • Download Windows version
      • Download Macintosh version
   2. Computing correlation coefficients using a statistical calculator.
   3. Train yourself to see the connection between graphed data and correlation coefficients by (a)  changing data in a graph and seeing how that changes the correlation coefficient and estimating correlation coefficients from graphed data.
4. To do some archival research on the web, explore the following links....
   • Voting data
   • U. S. Government Census data
   • Fun statistics from NationMaster
   • Transcripts of (previously) secret recordings of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon

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