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1. About the Book
2. About the Author
3. Preface
4. Chapter 1 Science and Scientific Research
5. Chapter 2 Thinking Like a Researcher
6. Chapter 3 The Research Process
7. Chapter 4 Theories in Scientific Research
8. Chapter 5 Research Design
9. Chapter 6 Measurement of Constructs
10. Chapter 7 Scale Reliability and Validity
11. Chapter 8 Sampling
12. Chapter 9 Survey Research
13. Chapter 10 Experimental Research
14. Chapter 11 Case Research
15. Chapter 12 Interpretive Research
16. Chapter 13 Qualitative Analysis
17. Chapter 14 Quantitative Analysis Descriptive Statistics
18. Chapter 15 Quantitative Analysis Inferential Statistics
19. Chapter 16 Research Methods
20. Welcome to the Course!
21. The textbook for this course is an Open Educational Resource.
22. What is Heutagogy?
23. Course Learning Activities
24. How Your Course Grade is Determined
25. My Expectations of your committment to this class.
26. Course Objectives, Student Learning Outcomes, Assessment
27. Poke around...
28. Open SUNY Student Orientation
29. Practice participating in a Q & A Discussion Forum
30. Learning Module Structure
31. Module Overview
32. F1: Chapters 1, 2, 3 & 4 Discussion Forum
33. Instructions for completing the Reflective Blog
34. Instructions for completing the Research Portfolio assignment
35. Research Portfolio Discussion Forums
36. Culminating Activities
37. Experimental Psychology Course Survey
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