There are some key ideas that may get lost in the chapters. These serve as reminders of some of the major points.

These are the "bare bones" of each chapter. They can be effective study guides that provide a quick overview of the key ideas in the chapters. They are not meant to be substitutes for the expanded explanations and examples in the book.

Instructors often want suggestions about how to supplement the textbook. These are meant as ideas. They can be changed or adapted to local circumstances. Students may want to do these things even if they are not assigned (yeah right).

Take a chapter self-test after reading the chapter to see whether you understand the concepts.

Select the one best answer.

There are only six items per chapter, so don't expect that all of the information from the chapter is covered by the six items. They are meant to be only a small sample of the items that could have been written. The correct answers are at the bottom of each page.

Some humor that was obtained from old files, colleagues, and the Web is provided for each of the chapters.

You may want to supplement your study of the book with visits to the following websites:

American Educational Research Association
www.aera.net

Eastern Educational Research Association
http://webserve.govst.edu/eera/index2.htm

Mid-South Educational Research Association
http://www.msstate.edu/org/msera/

California Educational Research Association
www.cerassoc.org

The Educator's Reference Desk
www.eduref.org

National Center for Educational Statistics
http://nces.ed.gov

National Council for Measurement in Education
www.ncme.org

Census Data
www.census.gov

The Buros Institute
http://buros.unl.edu

Randomization
www.randomizer.org

Educational Testing Service Test Collection
www.ets.org/testcoll/index.html

APA publication style
www.apastyle.org/faqs.html

AERA Code of Ethics
www.aera.net/about/policy/ethics.htm

ERIC
www.eric.ed.gov