Handbook of Applied Social Research MethodsLeonard Bickman, Debra J. Rog The Handbook of Applied Social Research Methods provides a complete resource to guide your decisions for all your applied research questions. The book's emphasis is on finding the tools that best fit the research question given the constraints of deadlines, budget, and staff available. It will show you how to make intelligent and conscious tradeoffs so that you refine and hone the research question as new knowledge is gained, unanticipated obstacles encountered, or contextual shifts take place - key elements in the iterative nature of applied research. The book also describes how to frame the results so that they can reach the attention of decision makers and other potential users of the research. |
Contents
Planning Applied Research | 1 |
Statistical Power for Applied | 39 |
Designing a Qualitative Study | 69 |
Practical Sampling | 101 |
Planning Ethically Responsible Research | 127 |
Applied Research Framework | 157 |
Quasiexperimentation | 193 |
Process and Techniques | 261 |
Practical Data Collection and Analysis Methods | 339 |
Practical Aspects of Interview Data Collection | 375 |
Mail Surveys | 399 |
Methods for Sampling and Interviewing | 429 |
Ethnography | 473 |
Exploration and Discovery | 505 |
Graphing Data | 527 |
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Formative Evaluation of Costs CostEffectiveness | 285 |
Research Synthesis and Metaanalysis | 315 |
About the Editors | 573 |
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