First Steps in Research and Statistics: A Practical Workbook for Psychology Students

by Dennis Howitt, Duncan Cramer

This approach to learning about quantitative methods assumes no previous knowledge or experience and every stage of the research process is covered. Key topics include: formulating research questions; how to choose the right statistical test for research design; important research issues, such as questionnaire design, ethics, sampling, reliability and validity; conducting simple statistics to explore relationships and differences in the data; writing statistics to explore relationships and differences in the data; and writing the research report and presenting statistics. Simple worksheets and flow diagrams guide the reader through the research stages and each chapter contains exercises with answers to check understanding.

Kindle Edition

First published April 6, 2000

About the author

Dennis Laurence Howitt was a graduate of Brunel University and the University of Sussex. His research career began with the study of mass communications but has developed into a broader interest in the application of psychology to social issues.

His primary research areas are:

*the effects of mass communications especially with reference to crime, violence and pornography
*racism and the profession of psychology
*paedophiles and sex offenders, child abuse
*forensic psychology

He is a chartered (forensic) psychologist and a Fellow of the British
Psychological Society.

His publications also include books on statistics, computing and methods.