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Experimental Design
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Experimental Design
Procedures for the Behavioral Sciences

Fourth Edition


August 2012 | 1 072 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
This book is for students who are embarking on a qualitative research project in psychology or a related discipline. While focusing mainly on undergraduate dissertations, this book will also be useful for postgraduate students. It takes you through planning a qualitative project, stage by stage, addressing key issues and concerns along the way. The focus throughout is on how to make your project excellent!

Packed full of examples from student projects to help you to put theory into practice, the book guides you through:

• designing your research

• ethical considerations

• collecting your data

• analysing your data

• writing your report or dissertation.

In addition, the book will help you with time management and working with your supervisor, as well as providing guidance on how you can use your project as the basis for publication or further study.

 
Chapter 1. Research Strategies and the Control of Nuisance Variables
 
Chapter 2. Experimental Designs: an Overview
 
Chapter 3. Fundamental Assumptions in Analysis of Variance
 
Chapter 4. Completely Randomized Design
 
Chapter 5. Multiple Comparison Tests
 
Chapter 6. Trend Analysis
 
Chapter 7. General Linear Model Approach to ANOVA
 
Chapter 8. Randomized Block Designs
 
Chapter 9. Completely Randomized Factorial Design with Two Treatments
 
Chapter 10. Completely Randomized Factorial Design with Three or More Treatments and Randomized Block Factorial Design
 
Chapter 11. Hierarchical Designs
 
Chapter 12. Split-Plot Factorial Design: Design with Group-Treatment Confounding
 
Chapter 13. Analysis of Covariance
 
Chapter 14. Latin Square and Related Designs
 
Chapter 15. Confounded Factorial Designs: Designs with Group-Interaction Confounding
 
Chapter 16. Fractional Factorial Designs: Designs with Treatment-Interaction Confounding

Generally, a very well written and understandable book. However, with it's depth and thoroughness it is more suited for academics and possibly doctoral students with an interest in methods than M.Sc. student. Unfortunately, for them it will likely not fit their level and their expectancies (e.g., they prefer to not have formulas or calculations).

Dr Sebastian Jentschke
Department of Psychosocial Science , Bergen University
July 4, 2019

Kirk is squarely a postgraduate level book. Undergraduates and even master students in most psychology and behavioral sciences tracks, with the possible exception of strongly research-oriented cognitive science tracks, will likely find it way beyond their level. It definitely requires a pretty solid math background (at least bachelor level calculus, linear algebra, and mathematical statistics), and prior experience with statistical computing in some environment such as SPSS, SAS, or R.

The Kirk book should probably be more aptly called and marketed as a guide to designing Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) statistical apparatus. This is the precise focus of the book, and readers expecting to find a general treatment of research design and planning experiments, or a treatment of other kinds of statistical methods, should be directed elsewhere. This book is General Linear Model as seen in ANOVA, and that's the one and only area it treats - in exhaustive depth. (That being said, the first chapter of the book is the most succinct overview I've ever seen of the main points to keep in mind when designing a study; but the rest of the book deals with much more specialized themes).

Second, the book's style and structure feels inherited from the days when statistics and research design was to be learned with paper, pencil, and perhaps a sizable desk calculator. These days I'd expect most books of this kind to directly provide the reader with invitations and means to implement the models discussed on a computer - for instance, in R or SPSS environment. The way the book currently stands, the reader has to work all of this on their own, with other resources, which is a sure way to turn away most modern readers who do not come to the courses with strong pre-existing background in data analysis.

Dr Nikita A. Kharlamov
Communication & Psychology Department, Aalborg University
November 19, 2015

I really enjoyed that book for it helps students considering how research can be valuable in behavioural sciences. Well done!

Dr George Varvatsoulias
Counselling, Newham College of Further Education
September 30, 2015

I draw on this text as a key teaching resource, and reference for my students, because of the very thorough review of the variety of quantitative designs, and the best overview (in Chapter 1) that I've been able to find on the elements of a quantitative research study.

Dr Tami Moore
School Of Educational Studies, Oklahoma State University
March 16, 2015

One of the best in experimental design, but may be it's complicated for undergards

Mr Mahmoud Ismael
Faculty of Pharmacy, Assiut University
August 18, 2014

Still not decided.

Dr Bal Barot
Science, Lake Michigan Clg-Napier Ave
May 27, 2014

This book is really one of the best books in the market for experimental design, especially for graduate students.

Mr SeyedAlireza Mirbagheri
Management , Sharif University of Technology
April 6, 2014

A complete guide, perfect for graduate students.

Dr Geronimo Maldonado-Martinez
Retrovirus Research Center, Universidad Central del Caribe
January 23, 2014

A lot about variance analysis, less on design of experimentation

Dr Jacques-Bernard Gauthier
Administration, Université du Québec en Outaouais
December 9, 2013

Very well written and authoritative. The book provides encyclopedic treatment of experimental design and analysis in psychological science. It covers all of the common techniques required by more advanced graduate students. Especially recommended for such students.

Dr Sunjeev Kamboj
Research Department of Clinical, Eductional and Health Psychology, University College London
October 10, 2013

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