Discovering the Scientist Within offers an utterly unique approach to the research methods course. Rather than taking students through statistical methods one at a time, the authors provide a series of realistic and engaging case studies with each design-focused chapter presenting a single study start to finish. These chapters, each with fully integrated online activities and resources in LaunchPad Solo, ask students to consider a specific scenario, then work through the essential steps of the study:

• formulate a research question
• review the literature
• construct a data collection method
• consider ethics
• refinine the method
• gather data
• interpret statistical results
• report the results in APA style

 With this hands-on interactive format, students develop a better understanding of the way professional researchers work, and invaluable experience in the basic steps that comprise all studies.