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> From: dawn blasko[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 1999 10:25 AM
> To: TIPS
> Subject: Re: Research Methods Text
>
> At 08:48 AM 10/23/99 -0500, G. Marc Turner wrote:
> >At 02:07 PM 10/22/1999 -0400, you wrote:
> >>I'm trying to decide between The Psychologist as Detective (Smith &
> Davis)
> >>and Research Design & Methods: A Process Approach (Bordens & Abbott) for
> >>the course I teach in Experimental Psychology (Clinical Research). Any
> >>opinions on the two texts?
> >
> I'd like to second the Bordens and Abbott text. Although I like the other
> text, B&A has a greater breath of coverage in areas that our students
> really use e.g., observational research. Overall our students have been
> quite happy with it and keep if for later reference. I also move the
> chapters around so that QAPA style is covered before they have labs due,
> but that is easy to do. Some of our less prepared students find the stats
> reviews chapters rather difficult, but that's true of most texts.
> Dawn
>
I'll third (or fourth) Dawn's recommendation of Bordens & Abbott. But I also
move the writing chapter up front, and also the chapter on theory. I really
like their process approach, and I've had good student feedback through 3
editions. The ancillary stuff (instructors guide etc.) are weak though.
Marty Bourgeois
University of Wyoming
