The Reviewer’s Guide To Quantitative Methods In The Social Sciences

The Reviewer’s Guide to Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences The Reviewer’s Guide to Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences provides evaluators of research manuscripts and proposals in the social and behavioral sciences with the resources they need to read, understand, and assess quantitative work. 35 uniquely structured chapters cover both traditional and emerging methods of quantitative data analysis, which neither junior nor veteran reviewers can be expected to know in detail. The second edition of this valuable resource updates readers on each technique’s key principles, appropriate usage, underlying assumptions and limitations, providing reviewers with the information they need to offer constructive commentary on works they evaluate. Written by methodological and applied scholars, this volume is also an indispensable author’s reference for preparing sound research manuscripts and proposals. Gregory R. Hancock is Professor, Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, and Director of the Measurement, Statistics and Evaluation program in the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology at the University of Maryland, as well as Director of their Center for Integrated Latent Variable Research. Laura M. Stapleton is Professor in the Measurement, Statistics and Evaluation program in the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology at the University of Maryland. Ralph O. Mueller is Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost at Purdue University Northwest. Updated and even more useful, this much-needed volume fills a gap for review consultation and instructional purposes. Highly recommended! Michael G. Vaughn, Saint Louis University The first edition of this book belongs on every reviewer’s bookshelf. The second edition is even better and covers topics missed in the first. David L. Streiner, McMaster University As an editor for more than 20 years, I had long wrestled with what graduate students and reviewers need to understand and address when evaluating the quality of the quantitative analyses reported in manuscripts. That problem is made even more frustrating by the range of quantitative methods populating the educational research literature. Thanks to this outstanding volume those nagging concerns have largely been put to rest. What these respected editors have compiled are 35 insightful chapters, each devoted to a particular quantitative method and written by an acknowledged expert. Each chapter not only succinctly overviews a given technique, but also delineates the musts and shoulds of its reporting, which are summarized in an easily referenced table. I plan to make this essential guide required reading for all my graduate students and for every editorial board member. Patricia A. Alexander, Jean Mullan Professor of Literacy, Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, University of Maryland. Senior Editor, Contemporary Educational Psychology Greg Hancock and his colleagues have done it again. The second edition of the Reviewer’s Guide to Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences offers 35 chapt