CHAPTER 5
Designing a Quantitative Study
This chapter deals with design types in quantitative research. We begin by introducing the materials that are used together with ways of placing individuals into groups. We then move to the central part of the chapter when we focus on ways of designing a study, including pretest/posttest designs, posttest-only designs, time-series designs, and one-shot designs. Throughout, we discuss the considerations researchers should make when designing a study for a given topic and population.
5.1. INTRODUCTION
In previous chapters, we discussed the need to state clear and answerable research questions and provided information on the construction of questions and the selection of variables. In this and the following ...
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