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General Resources
- Laerd Dissertation Resources (quantitative). This page is on constructing quantitative research questions, but there are many other helpful topics, too: http://dissertation.laerd.com/how-to-structure-quantitative-research-questions-p2.php
- Gelman, A., & Stern, H. (2006). The difference between “significant” and “not significant” is not itself statistically significant. The American Statistician, 60(4), 328-331. https://doi.org/10.1198/000313006X152649
- Johnson, B. (2001). Toward a new classification of nonexperimental quantitative research. Educational Researcher, 30(2), 3–13. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X030002003
- Johnson, B. (2000). It's (beyond) time to drop the terms causal-comparative and correlational research in educational research methods textbooks. New Orleans, LA: Annual Meeting American Educational Research Association. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 445-010). https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED445010.pdf
- (Earlier Conference presentation of above Johnson article)
- Trochim, William M. The research methods knowledge base. http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/contents.php
- The wording & logic of null and alternate hypotheses: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l6K0V_x_hw
- (This video is done by Brandon Foltz and is part of a video tutorial series called Statistics 101. He covers many other topics quite well.)
