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1、BecomingaBehavioralScienceResearcherBecomingaBehavioralSciencereSearcheraguidetoProducingreSearchthatmatterSRexB.KlineTHEGUILFORDPRESSNewYorkLondon©2009TheGuilfordPressADivisionofGuilfordPublications,Inc.72SpringStreet,NewYork,NY10012www.guilford.comAllrightsreservedNo
2、partofthisbookmaybereproduced,translated,storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,microfilming,recording,orotherwise,withoutwrittenpermissionfromthePublisher.PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmericaThisbookisprintedonacid
3、-freepaper.Lastdigitisprintnumber:987654321LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationDataKline,RexB.Becomingabehavioralscienceresearcher:aguidetoproducingresearchthatmatters/RexB.Kline.p.cm.Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindexes.ISBN978-1-59385-837-7(pbk.:alk.pape
4、r)ISBN978-1-59385-838-4(hardcover:alk.paper)1.Psychology—Research.I.Title.BF76.5.K542009150.72—dc222008019946ForJuliaandLuke,myjuniorscientistsPrefaceandAcknowledgmentsTheideaforthisbookoriginatedduringaconversationinDecember2006withC.DeborahLaughton,Publisher,Methodol
5、ogyandStatistics,atTheGuilfordPress,aboutthechallengesofteachingresearchseminarsorothercoursesinwhichstudentsconductathesisproject.Thesestudentscouldbeseniorundergraduatesinadvancedprograms,suchashonorsorspecialization,orfirst-yeargraduatestudents.Althoughsuchstudentsh
6、avetypicallytakenatleasttwointroductorycoursesinresearchmethodsandstatistics,theyarenevertheless“unfinished”insomecriticalways,andthusnotreadytocarryoutathesisresearchproject.Forexample,students’familiaritywithbasicconceptsaboutdesignandanalysisisoftenratherpoor,despit
7、etheirpreviouscoursework.Thiscourseworkmaynothaveintroducedthemtosomeimportantcontemporaryissues,suchasstatisticsreform.Students’knowledgeofmeasurementissuesmaybeevenworsestill,oftenbecausethey’venevertakenapsychometricscourse.Studentsalsoneedhelpwithlearninghowtowrite
8、cogentlyabouttheirresearchormakeformalpresentationsabouttheirwork.Asaninstructororsupervisorofthesisstudents,itcanbed
