Survey research and design in psychology/Readings

List of readings

A list of readings can be found on each of the lecture pages.

The amount of reading is ultimately up to the individual student. It is not intended that you read every reading word for word.

Some may prefer to read one or two readings in-depth, others may prefer a lighter reading of a range of sources. Do whatever works for you.

The overall goal is satisfy your desired level of understanding and to acquire sufficient knowledge to succeed at the assessment tasks.

Sources of readings

There are three sources of readings for this unit:

1. Textbooks
2. eReserve
   1. Bryman, A. & Cramer, D. (1997). Concepts and their measurement (Ch. 4). In Quantitative data analysis with SPSS for Windows: A guide for social scientists (pp. 53-68). Routledge.
   2. Fowler, F. (2002). Designing questions to be good measures. In Survey research methods (3rd ed.)(pp. 76-103). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
   3. Howitt, D. & Cramer, D. (2005). 'Reliability and validity: Evaluating the value of tests and measures (Ch. 13). In Introduction to research methods in psychology (pp. 218-231). Pearson.
   4. Nardi, P. (2006). Developing a questionnaire (Ch. 4). In Doing survey research: A guide to quantitative methods (2nd. ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.
   5. Tabachnick, B. G. & Fidell, L. S. (2001). Principal components and factor analysis. In Using multivariate statistics. (4th ed., pp. 582 - 633). Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
   6. Tabachnick, B. G., & Fidell, L. S. (2013). Multiple regression (Ch. 5). In Using Multivariate Statistics (6th Ed., pp. 117-196). Boston, MA: Pearson.
3. Online
   1. Beavers, A. S., Lounsbury, ,J. W., Richards, J. K., Huck, S. W., Skiloits, G. J., Esquivel, S. L. (2013). Practical considerations for using exploratory factor analysis in educational research. Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 18(6).
   2. Creative Research Systems (2009). Survey design: How to begin your survey project. Retrieved from http://www.surveysystem.com/sdesign.htm
   3. DeCoster, J. (2000). Scale construction notes. Retrieved from http://www.stat-help.com/scale.pdf
   4. Fabrigar, L. R., Wegener, D. T., MacCallum, R. C., & Strahan, E. J. (1999). Evaluating the use of exploratory factor analysis in psychological research. Psychological Methods, 4(3), 272-299.
   5. StatSoft (n.d.). How to find relationship between variables, multiple regression. StatSoft Electronic Statistics Handbook. Retrieved from http://www.statsoft.com/Textbook/Multiple-Regression
   6. Streiner, D. L. (1994). Figuring out factors: The use and misuse of factor analysis. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 39, 135-140.
   7. Trochim, W. M. K. (2006). Survey research. Retrieved from http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/survey.php
   8. Wikiversity (2013). EFA glossary.
   9. Wilkinson, L., & APA Task Force on Statistical Inference. (1999). Statistical methods in psychology journals: Guidelines and explanations. American Psychologist, 54, 594-604.

See also

• Additional survey research readings