Content: 1 The role and importance of research, 2 the research process, 3 selecting a problem and reviewing the research the importance of practicing ethics in research 4 introducing inferential statistics, 5 - 6 non experiential research, 7 pre and true experimental research methods, 8 measuring behaviour, 9 sampling and generalizability, 10. Methods of measuring behaviour, 11 data collection and descriptive statistics, 12. Quasi experimental research, 13 writing research proposal.