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"Visual Research Methods" is useful as a methodological epistemological and pedagogical resource across disciplines such as sociology, education, cultural studies, anthropology American studies, communications, gender studies, and political science.

This book explains 4 different types of survey instruments, and the activities that constitute a 'typical' survey. It also demonstrates how to organize surveys and estimate their costs and provides details for conducting a survey.

Quantitative methodology is a highly specialized field. This handbook is intended to introduce applied statisticians empirical researchers & graduate students to the broad array of state-of-the-art quantitative methodologies in the social sciences.

The Qualitative Inquiry Reader offers a selection of landmark articles from the SAGE journal Qualitative Inquiry. These works introduce framework that will allow scholars and students to interpret cutting edge work in the field of qualitative inquiry.

This handbook provides an analysis of the latest advances in this exciting field. It assists in establishing a clear identity that has grown over the latter part of the century. The contributors provide a more multidisciplinary perspective drawing from the fields of organizational behavior, management studies and communication.

This volume details both quantitative and qualitative methods and data collection, as well as suggesting the methods appropriate to particular types of studies. It also covers issues such as ethics, gender and ethnicity, and offers advice on how to write up and present your research.

This step-by-step approach allows students to master testing and measurement concepts through practical exercises and feedback. The authors guide the reader through the essential components of measurement, beginning with measurement scales and ending with reliablity and validity.

Visionaries have groundbreaking ideas. Integrators make those ideas a reality. This explosive combination is the key to getting everything you want out of your business.

Designed to engage employees in the EOS process and tools, What the Heck is EOS? uses simple, straightforward language and provides questions about each tool for managers and employees to discuss creating more ownership and buy-in at the staff level. After reading this book, employees will not only have a better understanding of EOS but they will be more engaged, taking an active role in helping achieve your company’s vision.

A piercingly raw debut story collection from a young writer with an explosive voice; a treacherously surreal, and, at times, heartbreakingly satirical look at what it's like to be young and black in America.

Trying to determine when to use a logistic regression and how to interpret the coefficients? Frustrated by the technical writing in other books on the topic? Pampel's book offers readers the first 'nuts and bolts' approach to doing logistic regression through the use of careful explanations and worked out examples.

This volume serves as a complete introduction to matrix algebra, requiring no background knowledge beyond basic school algebra.

Students in higher education can improve their learning with this guide, which builds awareness of different approaches attitudes and strategies and places importance on the notion of active learning.

Not sure how to start your essay or prepare for a presentation? Worried about how to structure your report? Questioning what a good assignment actually looks like? With encouraging, jargon-free advice and a clearly defined seven-step plan to getting better grades, this book takes the fear out of academic writing and gives you the tools you need to succeed.

Essay Writing is a student guide with a mission: to enable students to write better essays and get the grades they deserve by demystifying the essay-writing process.

This text deals the generic issues around academic writing and then considers writing refereed journal articles, books and book chapters in detail as well as other, less common, forms of publication for academics. It aims to demystify the process and to help you to become a confident, competent, successful and published writer.

This useful guide educates students in the preparation of literature reviews for term projects, theses, and dissertations.

This handbook brings together top scholars and researchers from across the disciplines who are doing work in rhetorical studies. The book addresses and explores fundamental issues and pivotal questions about the role of rhetoric in history and in today's society.

This handbook provides an up-to-date, advanced analysis of all relevant issues involved in educational research. The expert contributors represent diverse fields within and outside education, as well as quantitative, qualitative, and mixed method approaches to research.

Based on his extensive experience as a successful thesis supervisor, Paul Oliver shows you how to turn your notes and data into a finished Masters or PhD thesis or dissertation. Fully up-to-date with current HEFCE/other EU requirements, the book sets out a template for you to follow, including planning and preparation, theoretical perspectives, publishing preliminary findings, and preparing for the viva.

This text reviews sampling methods used in surveys: simple random sampling, systematic sampling, stratification, cluster and multi-stage sampling, sampling with probability proportional to size, two-phase sampling, replicated sampling, panel designs, and non-probability sampling.

This text provides both theoretical and practical guidance for students and researchers who need to transform the massive amounts of data collected through qualitative fieldwork into a coherent manuscript.

The 'Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics' presents state-of-the-art information and ready-to-use facts from the fields of measurement and statistics. Expert contributors provide an overview and an explanation of the major topics in these two areas.

This guide is designed to support students, academics and practitioner researchers in using technology as part of their research.

Assessing the relative strengths and weaknesses of qualitative and quantitative methods, this book examines the methodological perspectives adopted by media researchers in their attempts to understand the nature of media in society.

Based on the research training requirements of UK Economic and Social Research Council postgraduate training, this is an introduction for beginning researchers to the core conceptual and practical skills required for successful research.

This introduction to research methods in political science includes a number of features to enhance learning: chapter objectives, regular summaries, questions for discussion, a glossary, and tasks and assignments. Additional material for teachers and students is available on a companion website.

This is a highly practical examination of the key issues regarding the practices and principles of research methods contextualised within studies of crime and criminal justice.

Laurel Richardson uses her own experience to explore strategies for writing up the same research in different ways. By showing the reader the stylistic and intellectual imperatives and conventions of different writing media she prepares the writer for approaching and successfully addressing diverse audiences.

Receiving feedback sits at the junction of two conflicting human desires: The desire to learn and grow and to be accepted just as we are right now. The audiobook addresses this tension head on. It explains why getting feedback is so crucial yet so challenging, and offers a powerful framework to help take on life's blizzard of off-hand comments, annual evaluations, and unsolicited advice with curiosity and grace.

When it comes to recruiting, motivating, and creating great teams, Patty McCord says most companies have it all wrong. McCord helped create the unique and high-performing culture at Netflix, where she was chief talent officer.

How do we group different subjects on a variety of variables? Kenneth Bailey addresses such questions and shows how classification methods can be used to improve research.

The problems involved in translating existing questionnaires and other paper and pencil instruments from one language toanother are discussed here. This text shows how to identify the problems with an existing instrument, how to solve each of these problems with step-by-step guidelines.

Intended as a guide to the terms and phrases that partially shape the origins, purpose, logic, meaning, and methods of the practices known as qualitative inquiry, this edition has 70 additional terms as well as a Reader's Guide. References have been updated and several terms and phrases have been expanded and reorganised.

A worthy successor to 'The Handbook of Teacher Evaluation', this landmark volume is an important source of information for anyone concerned with teacher evaluation, training and development.

Thomas Greenbaum discusses how the effectiveness of focus groups is conditional on the effectiveness of the moderators, the techniques they use, the facilities they have and the control they achieve on the ever-escalating costs of research.

Stop for a moment and wonder: what's happening in your brain right now--as you read this paragraph? How much do you know about the innumerable and amazing connections that your mind is making as you, in a flash, make sense of this request?

'The Long Interview' focuses on one of the most powerful and efficient of these methods, the intensive interview. The intensive interview is a sharply focused and rapid process that seeks to diminish the indeterminacy and redundancy that attends more unstructured research processes.

As part of Roosevelt's New Deal program of the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) provided relief jobs to millions of Americans. One facet of the WPA was the hiring of men and women to document the history and folklore of America so as to capture the "soul" of the nation.

This text provides readers with the knowledge to plan ethically responsible social and behavioural research. It includes instructions on development of an effective protocol; methods for handling issues of confidentiality, consent, privacy and deception; ways to assess risk and benefit to optimize research outcomes; and more.

Providing you with a quick set of writing rules to follow, this tried and tested guide uses a unique and easy to follow grid-based system. Packed with advice on understanding (big and little) common errors made in academic writing, it helps you identify patterns in your own writing and demonstrates how to reshape or re-evaluate them - and raise your writing game in any academic context.

This easy-to-read book is designed to be your companion throughout your university studies in the UK, providing practical information and skills and strategies for success. This guide: Introduces you to many life skills needed to support your studies in the UK, such as food, socialising and local amenities Contains information regarding UK assessment, lectures, seminars, campus life and support available from faculty Covers language and comprehension skills to help you communicate in your work and in the classroom with peers.

An introductory guide through the choices to be made when deciding how to report research, this text covers research written as theses and dissertations; chapters, books, reports and articles in academic, professional or general media; and also reviews the options for presenting research orally.

Understanding the Research Process helps students understand the use of specialist vocabulary and terminology of educational and social science research.

Paul Lavrakas covers all major facets of survey research methodology, from selecting the sample design and the sampling frame, designing and pretesting the questionnaire, data collection, and data coding, to the thorny issues surrounding diminishing response rates, and more.

The 'Encyclopedia of Evaluation' recognises the growth of evaluation around the world & highlights all the major contributions to the field. There are over 400 entries organised alphabetically.

This guide is designed to help researchers and practitioners in the United States ensure the legal relevance of their initial research question as well as conduct their own evaluation of primary legal materials.

Aimed at professionals in market research and journalism as well as researchers, academics and students, this handbook is both an encyclopedia providing discussions of methodological issues and a story of a particular tale of interviewing.

Promoting the overarching business philosophy of customer/market focus, this book identifies such troubling trends as biased sample answers on long questionnaires, and 'professionals' whose job is to skew focus group responses.

Organised thematically, this collection provides a selection of the best articles in quantitative methods, taken from SAGE journals.

SAGE has been a major force shaping the field of qualitative methods. This collection includes research from the past four decades and addresses key issues or controversies, such as explanations and defences of qualitative methods, ethics research questions and foreshadowed problems, access, and first days in the field.

To help the researcher understand why and how children react to adults who are doing ethnographic research, the authore explore the methodological and ethical problems of qualitative research with minors.

This new edition provides a comprehensive bibliography of sources on nursing research, and includes references for books journal papers and Internet resources.

Combining a teaching text with exemplary reports of research and a literature review conducted by international scholars this collection addresses the critical analysis of texts and the methods used to incorporate such analysis into literature reviews.

This text addresses the implications of postmodernism and poststructuralism for feminist theorizing. It identifies the challenges of this through the development of 'conceptual literacy'.

The authors explore the fundamentals of critical management theory and their influences on management research, and in doing so offer the student an introduction to what is often a disparate and complex array of issues.