Online Research Essentials – Designing and Implementing Research Studies : Designing and Implementing Research Studies

Online Research Essentials offers a step-by-step introduction and guide for planning and developing a survey, putting it online, and getting the data into a format to be analyzed.

Online Research Essentials Designing and Implementing Research Studies Online Research Essentials Written by experts in the field, Online Research Essentials provides step-b-step guidance to the student or new practitioner in how to create, test, and deploy online survey research. The book includes everything needed for planning and developing a survey, putting it online, and formatting data for further analysis. Russell and Purcell provide support for using the popular Microsoft Expression Web and Adobe Dreamweaver web page authoring tools and for using the Access database that is used to collect and store survey results. Online Research Essentials is a comprehensive resource that discusses the practical aspects of survey development and applied research and offers information on a wide range of research-related topics that include: Scientific method and research designEthical considerations on using the Internet for researchCreating web pagesPlanning the research studyCreating a simple survey on the InternetDeveloping an e-surveyCreating more complicated Internet surveysSampling proceduresDeveloping experimental designsJavaScript and web programming and advanced JavaScript programmingRepeated measures and matched group designs