Research category: 4571 books
Action Research for Improving Educational Practice
A Step-by-Step Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Which topics are right for Action Research in an education context? How do you go about planning a project, collecting and analysing your data? What's the best way to present your research findings to parents, colleagues or funding bodies?
Whether you are a busy teacher doing research in your...
by Bart L. Weathington, Christopher J. L. Cunningham, David J. Pittenger
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Explore the essential steps for data collection, reporting, and analysis in business research
Understanding Business Research offers a comprehensive introduction to the entire process of designing, conducting, interpreting, and reporting findings in the business environment. With an emphasis...
by Dr. Carol R. Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2017
A Guide to Qualitative Field Research provides readers with clear, practical, and specific instructions for conducting qualitative research in the field. In the expanded Third Edition, Carol A. Bailey gives increased attention to the early and last stages of field research, often the most difficult:...
Using Narrative in Social Research
Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2005
'Jane Elliott's examination of the use of "narrative" within the broad context of social science inquiry is a must-read for both qualitative and quantitative researchers, novice and expert alike' - Journal of Advanced Nursing
`This important book does an impressive job of synthesising...
by Gareth Hagger-Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Whilst the ‘health sciences’ are a broad and diverse area, and includes public health, primary care, health psychology, psychiatry and epidemiology, the research methods and data analysis skills required to analyse them are very similar. Moreover, the ability to appraise and conduct research is...
Practical Research and Evaluation
A Start-to-Finish Guide for Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
This book is a starter 'DIY' text for practitioners who are looking to conduct evaluation studies and research as part of their own professional practice.
The growing emphasis on evidence-based practice means that there is an increasing need for practitioners to have at least a basic understanding...
Handbook for Clinical Research
Design, Statistics, and Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
With over 80 information-packed chapters, Handbook for Clinical Research delivers the practical insights and expert tips necessary for successful research design, analysis, and implementation. Using clear language and an accessible bullet point format, the authors present the knowledge and expertise...
Practical Research Methods for Educators
Becoming an Evidence-Based Practitioner
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2009
This text offers a fresh perspective on developing research skills for educators as well as for students studying to become educators. Practical Research Methods for Educators is unique in identifying the requirements for conducting pragmatic research for everyday instructional personnel.
The...
Introduction to Research Methods
A Hands-On Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Introduction to Research Methods: A Hands-On Approach makes learning research methods easy for students by giving them activities they can experience and do on their own. With clear, simple, and even humorous prose, this text offers students a straightforward introduction to an exciting new world...
by Christopher J. L. Cunningham, Bart L. Weathington, David J. Pittenger
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
A comprehensive introduction to behavioral and social science research methods in the health sciences
Understanding and Conducting Research in the Health Sciences is designed to develop and facilitate the ability to conduct research and understand the practical value of designing, conducting,...
Positioning Research
Shifting Paradigms, Interdisciplinarity and Indigeneity
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
The availability of research methodologies and frameworks to facilitate different ways of gathering knowledge and performing research is often a matter of concern for early career researchers as well as advanced research scholars. Positioning Research, while identifying this gap, provides avenues...
Doing Research with Children
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
This Third Edition of Doing Research with Children is practical introduction to the process of designing, doing and writing up research with children and young people. At the centre is a commitment to engaging with children and young people as active research participants rather than as passive subjects....
by Tony Mayer, Nicholas Steneck
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Globalisation has become a rewarding but challenging fact of life for scientific and scholarly researchers. Intellectually, they work with shared understandings of their areas of research and research methods. Professionally, responsibility and best practices are subject to many different rules and...
Innovative Research Methodologies in Management
Volume II: Futures, Biometrics and Neuroscience Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
A seminal collection of research methodology themes, this two-volume work provides a set of key scholarly developments related to robustness, allowing scholars to advance their knowledge of research methods used outside of their own immediate fields. With a focus on emerging methodologies within management,...