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TABLE 1.1 An Abbreviated Table of Random Numbers

TABLE 2.1 Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct: Research Populations

TABLE 2.1 Continued

TABLE 2.1 Continued

TABLE 2.2 American Educational Research Association Standards: Research Populations, Educational Institutions, and the Public

TABLE 2.2 Continued

FIGURE 6.1 Number of Motor Aggressive, Nonmotor Aggressive, and Total Aggressive Acts during On-Reinforcement and Off-Reinforcement Experimental Conditions

FIGURE 6.2 Factorial Design

FIGURE 6.3 Interaction Effect from Morrison, Smith, and Dow-Ehrensberger, 1995

FIGURE 6.4 Interaction Effect

FIGURE 6.5 No Interaction Effect

TABLE 6.1 Summary Table from Campbell & Stanley (1966)

TABLE 6.2 Summary Table from Campbell & Stanley (1966)

FIGURE 7.1 Hypothetical Baseline Data for Attending Behavior. The Top Panel Shows Stable, Middle Panel Increasing, and Bottom Panel Decreasing Trend in the Behavior

FIGURE 7.2 Hypothetical Data Showing an Effective Intervention for Increasing Appropriate Behavior in an A-B-A-B Design

FIGURE 7.3 Percentage of Attentive Behavior across Experimental Phases for Al and Ed

FIGURE 7.4 Example of A-B-A-B Design from Gardner, Heward, and Grossi, 1994

FIGURE 7.5 Hypothetical Data Showing an Effective Intervention to Increase Appropriate Behavior Using a Multiple Baseline Design

FIGURE 7.6 Percentage of Correct Responses on Acquisition Probes during Baseline Incidental Teaching and at 15- and 25-day Follow-ups

FIGURE 7.7 Example of Combined Multiple Baseline and A-B-A-B Designs from Miller and Kelley, 1994

TABLE 8.1 Themes of Qualitative Inquiry

TABLE 8.2 Variety in Qualitative Inquiry: Theoretical Traditions

TABLE 8.3 Fieldnotes Comparisons

TABLE 8.4 Variations in Interview Instrumentation

FIGURE 9.1 Sample Questionnaire Item

FIGURE 9.2 Teacher Morale Questionnaire - Opinionnaire

FIGURE 9.2 Continued

FIGURE 9.3 Questionnaire: Texas Teachers, Moonlighting, and Morale - 2004

Table 1. Survey of Texas Public School Teachers

Table 1 Continued

Table 1 Continued

FIGURE 9.5 A Likert-Type Opinionnaire

FIGURE 9.6 A Likert-Type Opinionnaire on Merit Rating

FIGURE 9.7 Semantic Profiles for Regular Class and Special Class Teachers

FIGURE 9.8 Sociogram Showing First and Second Choices in a Third Grade Class

TABLE 9.1 Academic Rank of Members of the Instructional Staff of Southland College

FIGURE 10.1 Median Calculation

FIGURE 10.2 The Normal Curve

FIGURE 10.3 Percentage of Frequencies in a Normal Distribution Falling within a Range of a Given Number of Standard Deviations from the Mean

FIGURE 10.4 Nonnormal Distributions

FIGURE 10.5 The Space Included under the Normal Curve between the Mean and ±1.00z

FIGURE 10.6 Illustration of Various Standard Score Scales

FIGURE 10.7 Scatter Diagrams Illustrating Different Coefficients of Correlation

FIGURE 10.8 A Positive Regression Line, r =.60

FIGURE 10.9 A Negative Regression Line, r = -.60

FIGURE 10.10 Two Regression Lines, r and b

FIGURE 10.11 Scatter Plots of Outliers

FIGURE 10.12 A Regression Line Used to Predict College Freshman GPA from High School GPA

FIGURE 10.13 A Predicted Y Score from a Given X Score, Showing the Standard Error of Estimate

TABLE 10.1 Levels of Quantitative Description

TABLE 10.2 Scores of 37 Students on a Semester Algebra Test

TABLE 10.3 Scores on Algebra Test Grouped in Intervals of Five

TABLE 10.4 Sample Data

FIGURE 11.1 Normal Distribution of Individual Scores and of Sample Means when N = 36

FIGURE 11.2 The Relationship between Sample Size and the Magnitude of Sampling Error

FIGURE 11.3 A Two-Tailed Test at the .05 Level (2.5% at Each End)

FIGURE 11.4 A One-Tailed Test at the .05 Level (5% at One End or 5% at the Other End)

FIGURE 11.5 Distribution of Large and Small Sample Means

TABLE 11.1 Distribution of F (.05 level)

TABLE 11.2 Sample Data for Calculating Analysis of Variance

TABLE 11.3 Summary of Three Group Analysis of Variance

TABLE 11.4 Performance Scores of Students Taught by Method A or by Method B

TABLE 11.5 Summary of Descriptive and Inferential Statistics

FIGURE 12.1 Coded Data

FIGURE 12.2 Screenshot of SPSS for Windows Data Editor for Descriptive Statistics

FIGURE 12.3 Screenshot of SPSS for Windows Selection of Bivariate Correlation

FIGURE 12.4 Screenshot of SPSS for Windows Selection of Variables for Bivariate Correlation

FIGURE 12.5 Screenshot of SPSS for Windows Selection of Optional Statistics for Correlational Analysis

FIGURE 12.6 Correlations

FIGURE 12.7 Screenshot of SPSS for Windows Output of Correlation

FIGURE 12.8 (Part I) Screenshot of SPSS for Windows of Selection of Graph Type

FIGURE 12.8 (Part II) Screenshot of SPSS for Windows of Selection of Graph Type

FIGURE 12.9 Screenshot of SPSS for Windows of Selection of Variables for Graph

FIGURE 12.10 Screenshot of SPSS for Windows Graph Output

FIGURE 12.11 Screenshot of SPSS for Windows Selection of Variables for Multiple Regressions

FIGURE 12.12 Regression

FIGURE 12.13 Screenshot of SPSS for Windows Selection of Univariate ANOVA

FIGURE 12.14 Screenshot of SPSS for Windows Selection of Variables for ANOVA

FIGURE 12.15 Univariate Analysis of Variance

FIGURE 12.16 Screenshot of SPSS for Windows Correlational Analysis Output Using Appendix B Data

FIGURE 12.17 Screenshot of SPSS for Windows T-test Output Using Appendix B Data

FIGURE 12.18 Univariate Analysis of Variance and Partial Correlation

FIGURE 12.19 Regression

FIGURE 12.20 Tests of Between-Subjects Effects

TABLE 12.1 Variable List for Coded Data

Appendix B: Data--Raw

Appendix B (Continued): Data--Raw

Appendix B (Continued): Data--SPSS

Appendix B (Continued): Data--SPSS

Appendix C: Percentage Between Mean and Standard Deviation (Z) Units under the Normal Curve--Figure

Appendix C: Percentage Between Mean and Standard Deviation (Z) Units under the Normal Curve--Table

Appendix D: Critical Values of Pearson's Product-Moment Correlation (r)

Appendix E: Critical Values of Student's Distribution (t)

Appendix F: Abridged Table of Critical Values for Chi Square

Appendix G: Critical Values of the F Distribution

Appendix G (Continued): Critical Values of the F Distribution

Appendix G (Continued): Critical Values of the F Distribution

Appendix G (Continued): Critical Values of the F Distribution








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