Methodology category: 1297 books
Sociocultural Studies and Implications for Science Education
The experiential and the virtual
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
The chapters included in this book address two major questions: what are some of the methodological and theoretical issues in sociocultural research in urban education and science education and what sort of questions do technological and virtual contexts raise for these types of research perspectives....
by William J. Vincent, Joseph P. Weir
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
The only statistics text currently available specifically for kinesiology majors, Statistics in Kinesiology, Fourth Edition, provides an accessible introduction to statistics concepts and techniques and their applications to kinesiology-related fields. Students will learn to use statistical tools...
by Suzanne Jak
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2015
This book explains how to employ MASEM, the combination of meta-analysis (MA) and structural equation modelling (SEM). It shows how by using MASEM, a single model can be tested to explain the relationships between a set of variables in several studies.
This book gives an introduction to...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
This volume addresses an urgent need across multiple disciplines to broaden our understanding and use of response processes evidence of test validity. It builds on the themes and findings of the volume Validity and Validation in Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences (Zumbo & Chan, 2014), with...
Excel 2016 for Social Science Statistics
A Guide to Solving Practical Problems
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
This book shows the capabilities of Microsoft Excel in teaching social science statistics effectively. Similar to the previously published Excel 2013 for Social Sciences Statistics, this book is a step-by-step exercise-driven guide for students and practitioners who need to master Excel to solve practical...
Cultivando conocimiento
Estrategia de acercamiento a la investigación
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 1, 2015
El presente libro recoge los frutos presentados en el Segundo Encuentro Institucional de Semilleros de Investigación de la Universidad de La Salle, realizado el 27 de marzo de 2014 en nuestro campus de Chapinero. De esta manera se da continuidad a una iniciativa planeada desde la Vicerrectoría de...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Qualitative methods are increasingly used within health economics research, but there is almost no specific material to guide the use of these methods in this context; there is very little that links them to the specific questions that (health) economists ask or that provides guidance on analyzing...
The Secret Life of Science
How It Really Works and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
A revealing and provocative look at the current state of global science
We take the advance of science as given. But how does science really work? Is it truly as healthy as we tend to think? How does the system itself shape what scientists do? The Secret Life of Science takes a clear-eyed and...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This book highlights recent developments in the field, presented at the Social Simulation 2015 conference in Groningen, The Netherlands. It covers advances both in applications and methods of social simulation. Societal issues addressed range across complexities in economic systems, opinion dynamics...
by Collectif
Language: French
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Parmi les dix premiers sites visités au monde, Wikipédia est désormais d’un usage courant dans le milieu éducatif et scientifique. Mais quelles sont exactement les relations que les chercheurs ont nouées avec la plus célèbre encyclopédie participative et collaborative en ligne ? Tel est...
Navigating the Education Research Maze
Contextual, Conceptual, Methodological and Transformational Challenges and Opportunities for Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
This book depicts rigorous and vigorous accounts of strategies used successfully by researchers to negotiate their way through the research maze. The metaphor of the maze evokes several different and sometimes contradictory elements of contemporary education research, including complexity, confusion,...
The Trend of «Socializing Social Welfare» Policy in China
A study on Service Quality and Social Capital in the Society-run Home for the Aged in Beijing
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
China has one-fifth of the world’s total elderly population. This rapidly aging population presents serious challenges to the state to develop a social service system. To satisfy increasing demands for diversified and continuous care, a policy known as «Socializing social welfare» was introduced...
by Jim Duggan
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
This new interdisciplinary work presents system dynamics as a powerful approach to enable analysts build simulation models of social systems, with a view toward enhancing decision making. Grounded in the feedback perspective of complex systems, the book provides a practical introduction to system...
Sociophysics
A Physicist's Modeling of Psycho-political Phenomena
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2012
Do humans behave much like atoms? Sociophysics, which uses tools and concepts from the physics of disordered matter to describe some aspects of social and political behavior, answers in the affirmative. But advocating the use of models from the physical sciences to understand human behavior could...