Social work research: context and politics -- Ethics -- Evidence and professional social work practice -- Problem formulation: what to study -- Using the literature -- Working from questions or hypotheses -- Variables -- Assumptions -- Design options -- Exploratory design -- Descriptive design -- Experimental design -- Correlational design -- Plausible alternative explanations -- Practice evaluation -- Program evaluation -- Working toward reliability and validity -- Sampling -- Data collection -- Data analysis: an overview -- Qualitative data analysis: making sense of words -- Quantitative data analysis: making sense of descriptive stats -- Quantitative data analysis: making sense of inferential stats -- Tests of statistical significance -- Wrapping it up.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This second edition of The Social Work Student's Research Handbook provides an essential guide for social work students beginning to participate in research. Practical and easy to use, this comprehensive handbook provides instant access to the nuts and bolts of social work research. Each chapter in this second edition has been updated to reflect the dynamic and changing nature of social work research, and three new topical chapters have been included that offer new food for thought on research context and ethics and on the role of evidence in professional practice.
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address
Ingram Content Group
Stock Number
9781317549536
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Social Work Student's Research Handbook.
International Standard Book Number
9781138844094
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Social service-- Research-- Methodology.
Social service-- Research, Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Social work education.
Research Design.
Social Work-- education.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Services & Welfare.