Chapter 8 Main Menu for Research Design Explained (5th Edition)

• Overview

  • Chapter Outline
  • Chapter 8 Key Terms
  • Chapter 8 Key Issues
  • Professor-oriented, visual summary
  • Powerpoint lecture/Chapter outline (download )

• Lectures
  • Lecture 8.1: Look before leaping to causal conclusions
  • Download Powerpoint lecture/Chapter outline
  • Bonus powerpoint lecture (password is the first nonhyphenated word on page 3 of the Instructor's Manual)

• Chapter 8 section of the student website

• Handouts
  • Handout 8.1: First part of regression demonstration
  • Handout 8.2: Second part of regression demonstration
  • Detailed Learning Objectives for Chapter 8
  • Crossword puzzle
    • Completed crossword puzzle (password is the first nonhyphenated word on page 3 of the Instructor's Manual)

• Activities/Discussion Topics
  • Discuss Campbell & Stanley's threats to validity
  • Have students play detective
  • Have students try to uncover subtle cases of selection
  • Discuss the tradeoffs between internal and external validity
  • Regression demonstration 1
  • Regression demonstration 2
  • Show that the pretest-posttest design is flawed