| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Open textbook library |
| Contents |
Part 1: Introduction to research -- 1. Science and social work -- 2. Starting your research project -- 3. Searching the literature -- 4. Critical information literacy -- 5. Writing your literature review -- Part 2: Conceptualizing your research project -- 6. Research ethics -- 7. Theory and paradigm -- 8. Reasoning and causality -- 9. Writing your research question -- Part 3: Using quantitative methods -- 10. Quantitative sampling -- 11. Quantitative measurement -- 12. Survey design -- 13. Experimental design -- 14. Univariate analysis -- 15. Bivariate analysis -- 16. Reporting quantitative results -- Part 4: Using qualitative methods -- 17. Qualitative data and sampling -- 18. Qualitative data collection -- 19. A survey of approaches to qualitative data analysis -- 20. Quality in qualitative studies: Rigor in research design -- 21. Qualitative research dissemination -- 22. A survey of qualitative designs -- Part 5: Research in practice -- 23. Program evaluation -- 24. Sharing and consuming research |
| Summary |
We designed our book to help graduate social work students through every step of the research process, from conceptualization to dissemination. Our textbook centers cultural humility, information literacy, pragmatism, and an equal emphasis on quantitative and qualitative methods. It includes extensive content on literature reviews, cultural bias and respectfulness, and qualitative methods, in contrast to traditionally used commercial textbooks in social work research. Our author team spans across academic, public, and nonprofit social work research. We love research, and we endeavored through our book to make research more engaging, less painful, and easier to understand. Our textbook exercises direct students to apply content as they are reading the book to an original research project. By breaking it down step-by-step, writing in approachable language, as well as using stories from our life, practice, and research experience, our textbook helps professors overcome students' research methods anxiety and antipathy. If you decide to adopt our resource, we ask that you complete this short Adopter's Survey that helps us keep track of our community impact. You can also contact profmattdecarlo@gmail.com for a student workbook, homework assignments, slideshows, a draft bank of quiz questions, and a course calendar |
| Notes |
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike |
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In English |
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Description based on print resource |
| Subject |
Academic achievement -- Textbooks
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Social sciences -- Textbooks
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Academic achievement
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Social sciences
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Textbooks
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Textbooks.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
DeCarlo, Matt author
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Cummings, Cory author
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Agnelli, Kate author
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Open Textbook Library, distributor.
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| ISBN |
9781949373219 |
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1949373215 |
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