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Chapter 4: Ideas that Begin the Research Process

Chapter 4: Ideas that Begin the Research Process

pp. 78-110

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, Yale University, Connecticut
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Summary

We have now covered a variety of concepts, including threats to validity and various sources of bias that guide thinking when designing, executing, and evaluating research. All that will be critical to keep in mind as we move forward to elaborate research design issues. Yet we begin here with the first step of a research, namely, what will be studied? How and where does one get an idea for an actual study?

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