Description
Research methods is learned by doing it: judging a design, fixing a question, choosing a test, coding an interview. This book gives you 1,004 research methods practice questions to do, in the same 16 chapters as the Research Methods Made Simple textbook, each with a complete worked answer.
How each chapter is organised
- Part A — Quick recall. Short questions and multiple choice that check the key ideas.
- Part B — Short answer and scenarios. A student plans a study: identify the threats to validity, rewrite the leading question, fix the consent form.
- Part C — Companion data. Quantitative tasks on the survey and the workshop trial with Python and R output, and qualitative tasks on the interview transcripts and coding file.
- Part D — Apply it to your project. Guided tasks that move your own dissertation forward.
- Part E — Exam-style. Longer structured questions with mark schemes.
Two mock assessments
A full research methods module exam (100 marks, with mark scheme) and a “critique this research proposal” assessment (100 marks, with a model answer), the two formats most methods modules use.
Topics
Research questions and hypotheses; literature searching and synthesis; ethics and data protection; experimental and quasi-experimental design; sampling and sample size; validity, reliability and Cronbach’s alpha; questionnaire design; interviews, focus groups and observation; coding and thematic analysis; descriptive statistics and charts; t-tests, ANOVA, chi-square and correlation; regression and causal questions; secondary data, mixed methods and systematic reviews; writing the dissertation; referencing and the viva.
Every numerical answer was computed by software and checked automatically. Get it with the textbook in the Research Methods bundle for $19.
Instant download: the full PDF plus each chapter as a separate PDF.
