Mirroring chapters in the text, this companion workbook offers students the opportunity to put their new skills to work. With critical thinking questions, data-based exercises, helpful tips on data presentation, and suggested reading lists, this handy workbook continues instruction from the text and gets students comfortable using and applying each technique. The workbook also includes a helpful software guide How to Use SPSS to capitalize on the value of computers in methods courses. Freeing students from time-consuming calculations, SPSS allows for quick results interpretation and data validation. The workbook s CD-ROM includes seven data sets that cover a range of measures and applications from citizen and employee survey data and community indicators, to time series data of juvenile crimes, to an assessment of watersheds developed by the EPA, to regression analysis of pollution, productivity improvement, and crime. The data sets are available in a range of formats SPSS, SAS, SYSTAT, and STATA for maximum flexibility.

About the Author

Evan M. Berman is the Huey McElveen Distinguished Professor at Louisiana State University in public administration. He has served as a policy analyst for the National Science Foundation and as a consultant to the National Academy of Sciences and U.S. Congress. He is also an editor of Public Performance & Management Review. His areas of expertise include quantitative methods, survey research, program evaluation, productivity, ethics and human resource management. He is the author of over 100 publications. His most recent books include Performance and Productivity in Public and Nonprofit Organizations (2006, 2nd edition) and Human Resource Management in Public Service: Paradoxes, Processes, and Problems(2006, 2nd edition), coauthored with James Bowman, Jonathan West and Montgomery Van Wart and recipient of the Best Public Sector Human Resource Book by the Section on Personnel Administration and Labor Relations of the American Society for Public Administration.

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