Research decisions
Subtitle: quantitative, qualitative, and mixed method approaches
By: Ted Palys, Chris Atchison
Contributors: Atchison, Chris, 1971-
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: Nelson Education
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 471
ISBN-13: 9780176509378
Subjects: Social sciences; Textbooks; Research; Methodology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-452) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Perspectives on research; title: 2. Getting started; title: 3. Ethics in social research; title: 4. Sampling and recruitment; title: 5. Constructing a research proposal; title: 6. Survey, interview, and oral history techniques; title: 7. Observation and ethnography; title: 8. Unobtrusive and archival methods; title: 9. Eliminating rival plausible explanations: the experiment; title: 10. From manipulative to analytic control: quasi-experimentation and case study analysis; title: 11. Text, image, audio, and video: making sense of non-numeric data; title: 12. A conceptual introduction to qualitative data analysis; title: 13. Writing your research report; title: 14. Mixed methods research; title: App. A. Critical values of chi-square; title: App. B. Critical values of r; title: App. C. Critical values of t; title: App. D. Critical values of F.