Online research essentials: designing and implementing research studies

Online Research Essentials is a step-by-step introductory guide on planning and developing a survey, putting it online, and getting the data into a format that can be analyzed. The book teaches the specific web development skills needed to create, test, and deploy online survey research. The book focuses on leading web page authoring tools and the most common database software for collecting and storing survey results. In addition, the text covers practical aspects of survey development and applied research, including ethical aspects of online surveys, survey construction and scientific experiment design. Also included are key fundamentals of survey research, such as sampling procedures. INDICE: Chapter 1: Using the Scientific Method to Obtain a Sound Research Design Chapter 2: Ethical Considerations on Using the Internet for Research Chapter 3: Creating Web Pages Chapter 4: Planning Your Research Study Chapter 5:Creating a Simple Survey on the Internet Chapter 6: Introduction to Survey Development: Easy Steps to Creating an E-Survey Chapter 7: Controlling Text Formatting with Style Sheets Chapter 8: A Systematic Approach to Creating More Complicated Internet Surveys Chapter 9: Sampling Procedures Chapter 10: Developing Experimental Designs Chapter 11: Introduction to JavaScript and Web Programming Chapter 12: Repeated Measures and Matched Group Designs Chapter 13: Advanced JavaScript Programming I Chapter 14: Advanced JavaScript Programming II Appendices: computer system requirements to run the different packages; how to a survey web to a production server and archiving survey and data to CD or DVD, and sources for JavaScript and Web Programming Information,

• ISBN: 978-0-470-18568-1
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 384
• Fecha Publicación: 03/06/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés