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- Introducing Research Methodology : Thinking Your Way Through Your Research Project
Offering an encyclopedic introduction to research, this book shows you how to think about every stage of their project and equips you with the tools you need to understand different research processes.
Packed with examples showing the diversity of research, this third edition provides hands-on guidance to help: develop key academic skills like critical thinking, effective writing and building an argument; confidently interpret findings, assess arguments and understand the wider impact of their research; understand the challenges and opportunities involved in working with new types of data like social media and online data.- Introducing Quantitative Methods : A Practical Guide
This exciting new core textbook offers a clear and practical introduction to quantitative methods, taking a project-based approach. The author's extensive knowledge and straightforward writing style ensure that students are steered through the process step-by-step, from developing research questions and preparing data for analysis, to explaining how to present data in appropriate formats, avoid bias, and write up results and reports. Featuring a comprehensive pedagogical framework, readers are encouraged to follow practice analyses as they go, with examples given in both SPSS and Excel. In addition to covering the research project, chapters also cover the essential mathematical and statistical analyses that are a logical consequence of posing a quantitative research methods question.- Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences : A Practical Introduction with Examples in SPSS and Stata
This textbook offers an essential introduction to survey research and quantitative methods. Building on the premise that statistical methods need to be learned in a practical fashion, the book guides students through the various steps of the survey research process and helps to apply those steps toward a real example. In detail, the textbook introduces students to the four pillars of survey research and quantitative analysis: the importance of survey research, preparing a survey, conducting a survey and analyzing a survey. Students are shown how to create their own questionnaire based on some theoretically derived hypotheses to achieve empirical findings for a solid dataset.
The book explains the theory, rationale and mathematical foundations of these tests. In addition, it provides clear instructions on how to conduct the tests in SPSS and Stata. Given the breadth of its coverage, the textbook is suitable for introductory statistics, survey research or quantitative methods classes in the social sciences.- Research Design : Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches
The bestseller that pioneered the comparison of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research design continues in its Fifth Edition to help students and researchers prepare their plan or proposal for a scholarly journal article, dissertation or thesis.- Research Methods in Education
This thoroughly updated and extended eighth edition of the long-running bestseller Research Methods in Education covers the whole range of methods employed by educational research at all stages. Its five main parts cover: the context of educational research; research design; methodologies for educational research; methods of data collection; and data analysis and reporting. It continues to be the go-to text for students, academics and researchers who are undertaking, understanding and using educational research. It offers plentiful and rich practical advice, underpinned by clear theoretical foundations, research evidence and up-to-date references, and it raises key issues and questions for researchers planning, conducting, reporting and evaluating research.- Izglītības pētniecība
Textbook for students and pedagogies of academic studies in higher education.- Teaching Statistics and Quantitative Methods in the 21st Century
This work, which provides a guide for revising and expanding statistical and quantitative methods pedagogy, is useful for novice and seasoned instructors at both undergraduate and graduate levels, inspiring them to use transformative approaches to train students as future researchers.- Easy R : Access, Prepare, Visualize, Explore Data, and Write Papers
This book is built on the premise that anyone with a bit of free time and a healthy curiosity can learn to use R in their studies or at work. The authors focus on using R to do useful things like writing reports, creating data and graphs, accessing datasets collected by others, preparing data, and conducting simple data analysis.Student-friendly language and examples (such as binge-watched shows on Netflix, and the top 5 songs on Spotify), cumulative learning, and practice exercises make this a must-have guide for a variety of courses where data are used and reports need to be written.- Qualitative Research : A Guide to Design and Implementation
Qualitative Research is the essential guide to understanding, designing, conducting, and presenting a qualitative research study. This fourth edition features new material covering mixed methods, action research, arts-based research, online data sources, and the latest in data analysis, including data analysis software packages as well as narrative and poetic analysis strategies. A new section offers multiple ways of presenting qualitative research findings. The reader-friendly, jargon-free style makes this book accessible to both novice and experienced researchers, emphasizing the role of a theoretical framework in designing a study while providing practical guidance.- Participatory Visual Methodologies : Social Change, Community and Policy
This book demonstrates how data from participatory visual methods can take people and communities beyond ideological engagement, initiating new conversations and changing perspectives, policy debates, and policy development. These methods include, for example, photo-voice, participatory video, drawing/mapping, and digital storytelling.
Organised around a series of tools that have been used across health, education, environmental, and sociological research, Participatory Visual Methodologies illustrates how to maintain participant engagement in decision-making, navigate critical issues around ethics.- Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences
For courses in Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences. With an emphasis on concepts and applications, this book assumes no previous knowledge of statistics and only a minimal mathematical background. It includes more illustrations of statistical software for computations and takes advantage of the outstanding applets to explain key concepts, such as sampling distributions and conducting basic data analyses.- Real World Research : a Resource for Users of Social Research Methods in Applied Settings
Real World Research provides a clear route-map of the various steps needed to carry out a piece of applied research to a high professional standard. It is accessible to those without a social science background while providing rigorous and fully up-to-date coverage of contemporary issues and debates. It brings together materials and approaches from different social science disciplines, seeing value in both quantitative and qualitative approaches, as well as their combination in mixed-method designs.- Social Research Methods
The most comprehensive introduction to social research methods which guides students through the whole research process from formulating a research question to writing up.- Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics
With an exciting new look, new characters to meet, and its unique combination of humour and step-by-step instruction, this award-winning book is the statistics lifesaver for everyone. From initial theory through to regression, factor analysis and multilevel modelling, Andy Field animates statistics and SPSS software with his famously bizarre examples and activities.- Socioloģisko pētījumu kontekstuālās problēmas
The book highlights a new, unharmed approach in scientific literature to sociological research. The main focus is not on the details and nuances of isolated research procedures, but on the contexts in which research takes place and which, as distinct social agents, have a significant impact on both the conduct of research and the analysis of their results.
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