| Description |
xviii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The "Whys" and "Whens" of Observational Methods -- Good Descriptions: Or, Maximizing Reliability and Validity -- "Mere Description"? -- Using Observational Methods in Educational, Child, and Developmental Psychology -- Summary and a Preview of What Follows -- Some Things to Think About -- ch. 2 Science, Psychology, and Research -- What is Science? -- Scientific Inquiry -- Summary -- What Scientific Psychology is Not -- What are the Goals of Psychological Research? -- Science as Experiment -- Conclusion -- Some Things to Think About -- ch. 3 Ethics in Research -- What's Ethical and Unethical Behavior Fraud? -- Social Responsibility and Scientific Fraud -- Authorship, Plagiarism/Self-Plagiarism, and "Salami Science" -- Research Data Management -- Conclusion -- Some Things to Think About -- ch. 4 Choosing a Perspective: Qualitative-Insider/Quantitative-Outsider Distinctions -- Naturalistic Study: Individuals in Context -- |
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Contents note continued: Transaction Between Individuals and Context -- Basic Differences: The Etic-Emic Contrast -- The Outsider Perspective: Ethology -- The Emic Case: Ethnography -- Conclusion -- Some Things to Think About -- ch. 5 Asking the Research Question: Implications for Design and Specification in Observational Research -- Clear Questions and Hypotheses -- The Laboratory or the Field? -- Observer Bias -- Replication -- Conclusion -- Some Things to Think About -- ch. 6 Initial Considerations: Entering the Field, Looking Around, and Refining the Plan -- Taking the First Steps into the Field -- Becoming Familiar with Infra-Structural Personnel -- Conclusion -- Some Things to Think About -- ch. 7 Coming Up With Categories -- Category Choice/Formation as a Theoretical Act -- A Sad Tale of Inappropriate Borrowing (with apologies to Beatrix Potter) -- From Questions to Categories -- The Specific Category System -- Two Examples of Category System Development -- |
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Contents note continued: Measuring Categories -- Conclusion -- Some Things to Think About -- ch. 8 Measuring Behavior and Rules for Sampling and Recording -- Measuring Behavior -- Rules to Live by: Sampling and Recording Behavior -- Recording Rules -- Conclusion -- Some Things to Think About -- ch. 9 Reliability -- Reliability, Error, and Consistency -- Sources of Variation -- Estimating Reliability, and Reliability Coefficients -- Intra- and Inter-Observer Reliability: Determining It -- Intra-Observer Reliability -- Inter-Observer Reliability -- Conclusion -- Some Things to Think About -- ch. 10 Validity -- Types of Validity -- Content Validity -- Criterion-Related Validity -- Construct Validity -- Validity: Molar and Molecular Categories -- Threats to Validity of Observational Scores -- Validity in Experimental Design -- Conclusion -- Some Things to Think About -- ch. 11 Indirect Observational Methods -- Why and When to Use Indirect Methods -- Diaries -- Rating Scales -- |
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Contents note continued: Remote/Spot Sampling Using Telephones and Audiorecorders -- Conclusion -- Some Things to Think About -- ch. 12 Computer-Assisted Recording and Observational Software Programs / Frank J. Symons -- Review of Observational Software Programs (OSPs) -- Example Software Reviews -- Observational Software Programs: Overview of Analysis Options and Issues -- Applications of OSPs -- Summary and Conclusions -- Some Things to Think About -- ch. 13 The Research Report -- The Literature Review/Introduction -- Coding Research Literature -- Important Issues -- Where to Locate "The Literature" -- The Actual Writing of the Literature Review -- The Method Section -- The Results Section -- The Discussion Section -- Title, Abstract, References, and Appendices -- Editing, Re-writing, and Re-writing -- Something to Think About |
| Summary |
This book shows readers how to conduct observational methods, research tools used to describe and explain behaviors as they unfold in everyday settings. The book now uses both an evolutionary and a cultural perspective. The methods presented are drawn from psychology, education, family studies, sociology, and anthropology, but the author's primary focus is on children in school, family, and social settings. Readers learn how to make observations in real contexts to help them create a verbal picture of behaviors they see |
| Notes |
Includes index and references |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Also available in print edition |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Subject |
Child psychology -- Research -- Methodology.
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Observation (Psychology)
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| Author |
Hoch, John, 1971-
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Symons, Frank James, 1967-
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| LC no. |
2012010370 |
| ISBN |
9781848729575 hardback alkaline paper |
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184872957X hardback alkaline paper |
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9781848729582 paperback alkaline paper |
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1848729588 paperback alkaline paper |
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