Research

How can applied researchers present and analyze their research data more effectively? By applying the techniques described in this volume, social scientists will be able to make the most efficient use of their data as well as making it more accessible...

Using an engaging how-to approach that draws from scholarship, real-life, and popular culture, this textbook offers students practical reasons why they should care about research methods and a guide to actually conducting research themselves. Examining...

Social Surveys (1949) examines a host of fact-finding studies, dealing mainly with working class poverty, and the associated nature and problems. To describe the structure of a community demands a close study of the people who compose it, and of the...

Which time series test should researchers choose to best describe the interactions among a set of time series variables? Providing guidelines for identifying the appropriate multivariate time series model to use, this book explores the nature and...

This practical guide for doing policy analysis is written for academics who want to get their research to the attention of decision-makers in the public sector, or who want to train their students in the skills necessary to undertake policy-relevant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985387303Author Nicole LusianiFormat PaperbackImprint Dirt Path PublishingPublisher Dirt Path PublishingWeight(grams) 209g

While there is an expanding literature of qualitative studies with children, there is relatively little that examines the actual fieldwork process with them. This book looks at fieldwork with children from a number of perspectives, and helps to address...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798227257574Author Vivencio BallanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Vivencio BallanoPublisher Vivencio BallanoWeight(grams) 132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218418830Author Marvin CheungFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Ground Zero Books LLCPublisher Ground Zero Books LLCWeight(grams) 399g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956552924Author Ephraim MatandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Langaa RPCIDPublisher Langaa RPCIDWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218428433Author Marvin CheungFormat HardbackPage Count 298Imprint Ground Zero Books LLCPublisher Ground Zero Books LLCWeight(grams) 572g

"We all know that the actual process of empirical research is a messy, complicated business that at best only approximates the models we impart to students. Research Confidential pulls back the curtain on this process, laying bare the sordid details of...

Social scientists study complex phenomena about which they often propose intricate hypotheses tested with linear-interactive or multiplicative terms. While interaction terms are hardly new to social science research, researchers have yet to develop a...

A Comprehensive Guide to Research Methods, Volume One provides a clear overview of various methodologies of quantitative research. Each chapter defines and describes a specific methodology and introduces readers to those who pioneered it. Applications of...

Classification and regression trees (CART) is one of the several contemporary statistical techniques with good promise for research in many academic fields. There are very few books on CART, especially on applied CART.This book, as a good practical...

Originally published in 1990, Critical Social Research is a unique methodology textbook that provides students, lecturers and indeed all those involved in social research with an invaluable illustrative guide. The author argues that critical social...

This volume, ""The New Social Studies: People, Projects and Perspectives"" is not an attempt to be the comprehensive book on the era. Given the sheer number of projects that task would be impossible. However, the current lack of...

The chapters in this volume illustrate how teachers are bringing creativity, higher-order thinking, and meaningful learning activities into particular school settings despite pressures of standards and testing. We chose the word wise for the title of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938158056Author Emeritus Professor Peter M AllenFormat HardbackPage Count 642Imprint Isce PublishingPublisher Isce PublishingWeight(grams)...

This book offers an exploration of case-focused methods as a means of bridging the quantitative-qualitative divide and the key methodological issues. This book challenges the divide between qualitative and quantitative approaches that is now...

This book addresses the needs of researchers who want to conduct surveys online. Issues discussed include sampling from online populations, developing online and mobile questionnaires, and administering electronic surveys, are unique to digital surveys...

This book covers the five most common instruments and strategies employed to explore needs. It describes the steps involved in implementing them and presents interesting case illustrations. Although this book can be used in a stand-alone fashion, it is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543494075Author Michael RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Xlibris UKPublisher Xlibris UKWeight(grams) 154g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648026997Author Scott L RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Information Age PublishingPublisher Information Age PublishingWeight(grams) 776g

Teaching and Studying Social Issues: Major Programs and Approaches focuses on many of the major innovations developed over the past 100 years by noted educators to assist students in the study and analysis of key social issues that impact their lives and...

This book aims to fill this gap in the scholarship on social education by drawing on the research findings and/or experiences from scholars in eight East and Southeast Asian societies. In this regard the editors of this book hope that it will be a...

Research Methods and Statistics for the Social Sciences: A Brief Introduction provides students with an accessible and practical handbook to research methods and their application within the social sciences. The text is designed to guide students...

Communicating Across Differences: Negotiating Identity, Privilege, and Marginalization in the 21st Century presents research and scholarship from a broad range of contributing authors who represent the voices and perspectives of traditionally...

A volume in Teaching and Learning Social Studies Book Series Series Editor William Benedict Russell III, University of Central Florida The field of social studies is unique and complex. It is challenged by the differing perspectives related to the...

The book is unique in that it mixes theory and practical applications in rethinking traditional social studies education. It focuses on essays integrating media, popular culture, and alternative texts for teaching and learning in social studies and...

The chapters in this volume illustrate how teachers are bringing creativity, higher-order thinking, and meaningful learning activities into particular school settings despite pressures of standards and testing. We chose the word wise for the title of...

After almost three centuries of employing Western research methodologies, many African communities, both on the continent and throughout the world, remain marginalized in contemporary discourse. It is obvious that these Western methodologies have done...

Over the past decade, the world has experienced a major economic collapse, the increasing racial inequity and high-profile police killings of unarmed Black and Brown people, the persistence of global terrorism, a large-scale refugee crisis, and the...

While all oppressions are equal, some are more equal than others. This statement, borrowed from George Orwell's Animal Farm and written and marinated to fit within and without our call for ethical research, helps us to see how contemporary research...

For the early pioneers of the social indicator movement, the possibilities of doing social good by developing the tools of social measurement seemed endless. However, in the early 1980s these high, and perhaps naïve, hopes remained unfulfilled,...

Action! Film is a common and powerful element in the social studies classroom and Cinematic Social Studies explores teaching and learning social studies with film. Teaching with film is a prominent teaching strategy utilized by many teachers on a regular...

This volume, The New Social Studies: People, Projects and Perspectives is not an attempt to be the comprehensive book on the era. Given the sheer number of projects that task would be impossible. However, the current lack of knowledge about the politics,...

The importance of social studies assessment is beyond question. The National Council of the Social Studies' C3 Framework recognizes the importance of high-quality assessments-its major objective, a "deep understanding of the sociocultural world," has as...

(orginally published by Lexington Books, A division of Rowman & Littlefield)Researching and Teaching Social Issues: The Personal Stories and Pedagogical Efforts of Professors of Education is comprised of original personal essays in which notable teacher...

This volume acknowledges two important themes found in recent work in urban sociology. First is the effort to apply new theoretical models to the analysis of the urban landscape, in particular the recent work in the new urban sociology and the renewed...