Survey scales: A guide to development, analysis, and reporting

Survey scales: A guide to development, analysis, and reporting is a 269-page guide for those who need to develop closed-response survey scales. Whether you are a seasoned researcher or a graduate student, this book will help guide you through conducting and using surveys in your project. It features end-of-chapter exercises with sample solutions, "Not This/But This" examples of survey items, chapter-opening overviews and within-chapter summaries, and more.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

What's New

Wow! March the 1st certainly held up to the old adage, "in like a lion," didn't it? And spring is definitely rearing its lovely head with the grasses that are greening up and new shoots sprouting. It makes me want to take a book out to the back yard and read in the warm sunshine.

Before we get too far into March, though, let's first take a look back at the new materials that came in to the library last month. We received several titles around the education of children and adults with disabilities, one on autism, and a few that might make doing some research a bit easier.

For a look at the complete list, please visit:
https://www.iidc.indiana.edu/pages/whats-new

Research basics: Design to data analysis in six steps

Research basics: Design to data analysis in six steps is a 424-page guide for beginning researchers to learn how to develop a research question and then follow through to answering it. The author has devised a six-step model to help this process and breaks down each step into manageable pieces. The book includes unique features such as question-method match, data type-analytical tool match, and ethical theory-practice match to help students of the subject decipher this challenging process.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Action research: Improving schools and empowering educators

Action research: Improving schools and empowering educators is a 360-page introduction to the process of conducting classroom-based action research. The book offers a close look at action research, its methods, and procedures necessary for teachers to perform it. The author discusses the importance of conducting action research as well as its applications. A detailed description of the process is examined along with a discussion of what to do with the results.

Interested? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check out this title or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Treatment fidelity in studies of educational intervention

Treatment fidelity in studies of educational intervention from Routledge is a 160-page guide for scholars, professionals, and graduate students interested in school-based intervention. The book offers strategies for combining fidelity-related data with other data types to evaluate a program’s impact in schools and other educational settings. It includes recommendations for current practices, case studies, and technical reports on studies that measure and model fidelity.

Interested in checking it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Nonverbal learning disabilities

Nonverbal learning disabilities is a 202-page book that offers up-to-date information on nonverbal learning disabilities. Helpful for graduate students, researchers, and other professionals, this book offers strategies for helping school-age children and their families address the challenges they face both inside and out of the classroom environment. Case studies are included.

Interested? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check out this title or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Developing a mixed methods proposal: A practical guide for beginning researchers

Developing a mixed methods proposal: A practical guide for beginning researchers is a 288-page textbook from SAGE publications for those who may be new to research. Written by professors in educational psychology, the book combines descriptions of each component of a proposal with elements of the steps involved, the book offers real-world examples and a complete sample proposal.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Effective data visualization: The right chart for the right data

Effective data visualization: The right chart for the right data is a 264-page guide to  using Microsoft Excel to communicate data to make the biggest impact for readers. Through charts, slides, graphs, maps and more, the author offers advice on choosing which type of data works well with which visual piece and how to create them. The book is useful for both students and current researchers.

Interested? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check out this title or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Using mixed methods research synthesis for literature reviews

Using mixed methods research synthesis for literature reviews offers 344 pages of step-by-step instruction for conducting a mixed methods research synthesis (MMRS). Part of SAGE's Mixed Methods Research Series, this book is written by two professors and a postdoctoral fellow who all teach methodology courses.

The book is written for master's and doctoral students learning about literature reviews and mixed methods. It offers introductory material for MMRS literature reviews and several chapters on how to conduct them step by step. Challenges, questions for thought, exercises and further reading suggestions accompany each chapter. Strategies on how to write your report and disseminate it along with reflections on the methods and future directions are also discussed.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Blindness Prevention in Diabetics

Diabetic retinopathy is a leading cause of blindness in American adults according to an article from the Indiana University Newsroom. IU researchers have created a virtual tissue model of diabetes in the eye which can hopefully be used to develop new treatments for the disease.

To read the entire article, please visit:
http://news.indiana.edu/releases/iu/2016/07/diabetic-retinopathy-study.shtml

Community-based qualitative research: Approaches for education and the social sciences

Community-based qualitative research: Approaches for education and the social sciences is 208 pages of guidance on designing and implementing community-based qualitative research projects. Written by an associate professor at Northern Illinois University, this text offers students and researchers handouts and templates to help them apply their own research to the concepts broached in the book. Questions for reflection and discussion can be found at the end of each chapter.

Part one of this book, the introduction, takes a look at similar and related types of research approaches such as participatory action research and community-based action research and discusses relevant theories and concepts. Part two highlights the design and implementation of community-based qualitative research. Part three then looks at findings and results of research performed with this methodology and how and where to disseminate them. Case studies and real-life examples are offered to help cement the concepts throughout these chapters. Student activities for the classroom are also included.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Hypothesis Testing and Model Selection in the Social Sciences

Hypothesis Testing and Model Selection in the Social Sciences offers 202 pages of author David L. Weakliem's, PhD, thoughts on statistical methods for model selection. As a professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut and a past fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and at the Australian National University, Weakliem provides knowledgeable guidance on existing thinking and methods of applied quantitative research for social scientists.

The book starts off with a summary of conventional and alternative procedures of hypothesis testing and then goes on to discuss model selection. Criticisms of hypothesis testing follow along with a discussion of the classical approach, Bayesian Hypothesis tests, the Akaike Information Criterion and three-way decisions. Separate chapters on model selection and hypothesis tests are found near the end. Real life examples are found throughout the book and recommendations for practice are offered.

A companion website supplies data and syntax files for examples found in the book.

Interested? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check out this title or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Statistics for people who (think they) hate statistics: Using Microsoft Excel 2016

Statistics for people who (think they) hate statistics, now in its fourth edition, is 544 pages of friendly help for researchers who find working with statistics less than fun. The book begins with a introduction of Microsoft Excel 2016 and how to use its functions and formulas. It then goes on to discuss the installation and use of the Excel Data Analysis Tools option and its analytical techniques.

Written in a clear and informative style, the author walks researchers and students through the process of analyzing statistics from simple descriptive statistics and correlations to graphical representations of data and analysis of variance and more. New in this edition of the book is a chapter on working with large datasets and data mining using Excel and its tools.

The author has a Ph.D. from University of Maryland in Human Development and is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Kansas. He has written over 100 trade and textbooks on human development, measurements, statistics and more.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

What's new?

Looking for what's new in the library? Each month we take a look back at the new items arriving in the library. Here's the list for May 2016:

https://www.iidc.indiana.edu/pages/whats-new

How to conduct surveys: A step-by-step guide

"Packed with new topics that reflect today’s challenges, the Sixth Edition of the bestselling How to Conduct Surveys guides readers through the process of developing their own rigorous surveys and evaluating the credibility and transparency of surveys created by others. Offering practical, step-by-step advice and written in the same clear and accessible style as author Arlene Fink’s other works, the book focuses on choosing the appropriate type of survey, writing survey questions and responses, formatting the survey, deciding on the characteristics and numbers of respondents to include, choosing how often to survey respondents, and analyzing and reporting the results." -publisher

Interested? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check it out or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

An introduction to educational research: Connecting methods to practice

"Written specifically for education practitioners, An Introduction to Educational Research: Connecting Methods to Practice approaches research methods from a practice-first perspective that aligns research with professional experiences and identifies the tools and resources readers can use when conducting their own research. Throughout the book, authors Chad R. Lochmiller and Jessica N. Lester illuminate complex research concepts using problems of practice confronting educators to help readers make meaningful connections with key concepts and research practices." -publisher

Interested? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check out this title or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Doing developmental research: A practical guide

Doing developmental research: A practical guide "provides step-by-step guidance for getting involved in a developmental laboratory and crafting effective research questions and proposals. Tips on recruiting study participants cover access issues--such as how to overcome language and cultural barriers--and include helpful sample scripts. The book offers time management strategies, pointers for organizing and communicating data, and a roadmap of the journal publication process, complete with an annotated sample article." -publisher

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

What's new?

Wondering what's new in the library? Each month, we take a moment to look back at the new items that arrived in the library the previous month. From biographies to accessibility to social skills, check out the new titles at:
https://www.iidc.indiana.edu/pages/whats-new

Applied meta-analysis for social science research

"Offering pragmatic guidance for planning and conducting a meta-analytic review, Applied meta-analysis for social science research is written in an engaging, nontechnical style that makes it ideal for graduate course use or self-study. The author shows how to identify questions that can be answered using meta-analysis, retrieve both published and unpublished studies, create a coding manual, use traditional and unique effect size indices, and write a meta-analytic review." -publisher

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Schizophrenia Research

From CNN Health comes an article highlighting a new finding in the cause of schizophrenia. "Scientists may have found another clue to the cause of schizophrenia. A new study some scientists are labeling "groundbreaking" comes from researchers at Harvard, the Broad Institute and Boston Children's Hospital and is published in the latest edition of Nature."

To read the entire article, please visit:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/28/health/schizophrenia-a-genetic-cause/index.html?sr=fbCNN012916schizophrenia-a-genetic-cause0920AMVODtopLink&linkId=20773782