Resources for Writing in APA Style
- Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
- APA Style Essentials
- APA Style Paper with Notes
- How to set up APA formatted document in Word
- APA Manual 7th Edition: The Most Notable Changes
- APA 6th vs 7th Edition (Univ of New Zealand)
- 7th Edition Quick Reference Guide
- Free APA Style Resources from APA
- APA Basics by the UCA Writing and Communication Center
- APA Style Video by the UCA Writing and Communication Center
Concept Maps
Fundamental Statistics Decision Tree (as one large PowerPoint poster)
Fundamental Statistics Decision Trees (as four separate PowerPoint slides)
Research Design and Statistics Concept Maps by Alexis Grosofsky
Fundamentals of Behavioral Research Textbook
Below are PDF files for the textbook Fundamentals of Behavioral Research authored by William J. Lammers and Pietro Badia. This textbook is no longer printed by a publishing company and Dr. Lammers now holds the copyright to the book. Faculty and students are free to use all of the content provided on this site.
Dr. William J. Lammers
- Table of contents and preface
- Ch1 Overview of Behavioral Research
- Ch2 Ethical Principles of Research
- Ch3 Fundamentals of the Scientific Approach
- Ch4 Developing Research Questions_Hypotheses and Variables
- Ch5 Measurement
- Ch6 Methods of Data Collection
- Ch7 Sampling Techniques
- Ch8 Sources of Extraneous Variability
- Ch9 Using Experimental Control to Reduce Extraneous Variability
- Ch10 Experimental Design_Statistical Analysis of Data
- Ch11 Experimental Design_One-Way Independent Samples Design
- Ch12 Experimental Design_One-Way Correlated Samples Design
- Ch13 Experimental Design_Multiple Independent Variables
- Ch14 Experimental Design_Single-Subject Designs and Time-Series Designs
- Ch15 Nonexperimental Designs_Correlational_Ex Post Facto_Naturalistic Observation_Qualitative
- Ch16 Fundamentals of Disseminating Research
- Ch17 Summary of Behavioral Research
- Table A.2 The Normal Distribution
- Sample research report
- Glossary of Terms
- Textbook References