Research methods: general

This book offers a student-focused guide to conducting undergraduate research in education and education-related programs, engaging students in the process of learning through research, and supporting them to navigate their multidimensional academic programs.

This volume introduces the methodological value of hermeneutic dialogue in the field of theoretical and philosophical psychology.

A reference to answer all your statistical confidentiality questions.

Since its development as a field over the last part of the twentieth century, scholars in science and religion have been heavily concerned with methodological issues.

Using Non-Textual Sources provides history students with the theoretical background and skills to interpret non-textual sources.

Better posters mean better research.

This book investigates the issue of local mobilization against asylum seekers in urban areas, which are often disproportionally affected by complex issues related to immigration and integration, as well as socio-economic development and growing inequalities.

This book revolves around epistolary narratives of women political theorists and activists, following traces of Hannah Arendt's philosophical approaches to love and agonistic politics.

It is said that movies have encroached upon social realities creating tourism enclaves based on distortions of history and heritage, or simulations that disregard both.

This revised and updated sixth edition of Reference and Information Services continues the book's rich tradition, covering all phases of reference and information services with less emphasis on print and more emphasis on strategies and scenarios.

Collaborative Cross-Cultural Narrative Inquiry invites readers to participate in the experience of engaging in and reflecting on the author's collaborative cross-cultural narrative research online with Parvana, an Afghan woman living in Afghanistan until August 2021.

This is a highly accessible, comprehensive introduction to item response theory (IRT) models and their use in various aspects of assessment/testing.

This book provides a guide for undergraduate criminology and criminal justice students undertaking their final-year dissertation.

This book examines the challenges and pressures liberal journalists face in Putin's Russia.

Diccionario Bilingue de Metaforas y Metonimias Cientifico-Tecnicas presents the extensive range of metaphoric and metonymic terms and expressions that are commonly used within the fields of science, engineering, architecture and sports science.

Negotiating the Complexities of Qualitative Research in Higher Education illuminates the complex nature of qualitative research, while attending to issues of application.

Presenting original research studies by leading scholars in the field, Orders of Ordinary Action considers how ethnomethodology provides for an 'alternate' sociology by respecifying sociological phenomena as locally accomplished members' activities.

This edited collection, first published in 1989, stems from the second annual meeting of the British Academy of Management, held at Cardiff Business School in 1988.

A friendly and accessible approach to applying statistics in the real world With an emphasis on critical thinking, The Art of Data Analysis: How to Answer Almost Any Question Using Basic Statistics presents fun and unique examples, guides readers through the entire data collection and analysis process, and introduces basic statistical concepts along the way.

Strategies and Tactics of Behavioral Research and Practice focuses on the most effective methods for measuring and evaluating changes in behavior.

Researching and Analysing Business: Research Methods in Practice provides an accessible and practical guide to various data collection and data analysis techniques within management, from both quantitative and qualitative perspectives.

Detection Theory: A User's Guide is an introduction to one of the most important tools for the analysis of data where choices must be made and performance is not perfect.

This textbook integrates the teaching and learning of statistical concepts with the acquisition of the Stata (version 16) software package.

This bestselling textbook provides a comprehensive guide to conducting discourse analysis.

Praise for the First Edition:'A warm feeling of positive reassurance and guidance runs throughout the book.

Applied Cross-Cultural Data Analysis for Social Work is a research guide for examining and interpreting data for the purpose of cultural group comparisons.

The landscape of contemporary research is characterized by growing interdisciplinarity, and disciplinary boundaries are blurring faster than ever.

Global Feminist Autoethnographies bears witness to our displacements, disruptions, and distress as tenured faculty, faculty on temporary contracts, graduate students, and people connected to academia during COVID-19.

Recent advances in digitization are transforming healthcare, education, tourism, information technology, and some other sectors.

This book walks you through learning probability and statistics from a Bayesian point of view.

El Volumen V: El arte y la práctica de la interpretación, la evaluación y la presentación finaliza la compilación de volúmenes del Manual de Investigación Cualitativa dentro de la colección Herramientas Universitarias.

Efforts to fight back against silencing are central to social justice movements and scholarly fields such as feminist and postcolonial studies.

Systematic Methods for Analyzing Culture is a practical manual that provides step-by-step instruction for collecting and analyzing cultural data.

Participatory Action Research (PAR) approaches and methods have seen an explosion of recent interest in the social and environmental sciences.

Since its first edition in 1985, Patrick McNeill's Research Methods has become a classic introductory text for students of sociology at A level and in undergraduate courses as well as for a range of specialists in education, business, social care and medicine who need a brief but authoritative account of how sociologists set about conducting research.

Nowadays, event history analysis can draw on a well-established set of statistical tools for the description and causal analysis of event history data.

Categorical Statistics for CommunicationResearch presents scholars with a discipline-specific guide to categorical data analysis.

Since the financial crisis, the issue of the 'one percent' has become the centre of intense public debate, unavoidable even for members of the elite themselves.

This innovative book takes seriously the ordinary activities of entrepreneurship and maps out new pathways for scholars to understand the nature, properties, and implications of studying practices for entrepreneurship studies.

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As the arts become an increasingly popular pedagogical tool in writing studies, Arts-Based Research Methods in Writing Studies offers scholars and educators in the field ways to leverage the arts for their own scholarship through the practice of arts-based research (ABR).

This edited collection aims to provide relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the area of business management.

Dialogues on Agential Realism is built up around dialogues with key scholars in the field: Magdalena Gorska, Astrid Schrader, Elizabeth de Freitas, Ericka Johnson and Karen Barad.

This truly interdisciplinary volume brings together a diverse group of scholars to explore changes in the significance of media and communication in the era of pandemic.

This collection introduces, illustrates, and advances fresh ideas about creative practice inquiry in architecture.

Praise for the First Edition: "e;The book makes a valuable contribution by synthesizing current research and identifying areas for future investigation for each aspect of the survey process.

The frequency with which people move home has important implications for national economic performance and the well-being of individuals and families.