Jerry wrote:
Are there any good research methods texts that are not geared uniformly
towards psychology? In this college, the psychology department teaches
research methods to a variety of students - nursing, physical therapy,
management, etc. As such, a nice interdisciplinary text would be quite
beneficial.
Try:
Leedy, P. (1997). _Practical Research: Planning and design. 6th. Ed._
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill/Prentice Hall.
The book is very broad based, discusses every aspect of research design
from planning to proposals, and does a good job of examining both
qualitatitive and quantitative approaches. It's equally useful for
graduate and undergraduate level course, and is both terse and inexpensive
enough that it can be assigned along with a discipline-specific text.
Hope it helps,
Rick
