Scientific inquiry in social work
Record details
- ISBN: 1975033728
- ISBN: 9781975033729
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Physical Description:
1 online resource : illustrations
remote - Publisher: Roanoke, VA : Open Social Work Education, 2018-
- Distributor: [Victoria] : BCcampus
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction to research -- Beginning a research project -- Reading and evaluating literature -- Conducting a literature review -- Ethics in social work research -- Linking methods with theory -- Design and causality -- Creating and refining a research question -- Defining and measuring concepts -- Sampling -- Survey research -- Experimental design -- Interviews and focus groups -- Unobtrusive research: Qualitative and quantitative approaches -- Real-world research: Evaluation, single-subjects, and action research -- Reporting and reading research. |
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Textbook content produced by Open Social Work Education is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. $fCC BY NC SA 4.0 $2cc $u https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
Information Relating to Copyright Status: | This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike CC-BY-NC-SA. |
Source of Description Note: | This bibliographic record is available under the Creative Commons CC0 "No Rights Reserved" license. Online version, 2018; title from PDF (viewed on September 5, 2018). |
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Subject: | Social service -- Research -- Methodology -- Textbooks |