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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1305633822
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1305633827
• Author: Allen Rubin, Earl R. Babbie

If you’re intimidated by the thought of taking research methods, Rubin and Babbie’s classic bestseller can help you overcome the fear factor often associated with this course with its reader-friendly presentation of all aspects of the research endeavor. If you’re not intimidated, you’ll still appreciate the authors’ clear and often humorous writing style as well as the book’s depth and breadth of coverage. RESEARCH METHODS FOR SOCIAL WORK, Ninth Edition, strikes an optimal balance of quantitative and qualitative research techniques — illustrating how the two methods complement one another and can be integrated in the same study. Relevant examples from real-world settings highlight the connections between research and social work practice. Comprehensive, friendly, accurate, and integrating the best of technology, this text is widely considered the best text for the research methods course — and when you read it, you’ll see why.

Table of contents:

1. Part 1: An Introduction to Scientific Inquiry in Social Work
2. Ch 1: Why Study Research?
3. Ch 2: Evidence-Based Practice
4. Ch 3: Factors Influencing the Research Process
5. Ch 4: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods of Inquiry
6. Part 2: The Ethical, Political, and Cultural Context of Social Work Research
7. Ch 5: The Ethics and Politics of Social Work Research
8. Ch 6: Culturally Competent Research
9. Part 3: Problem Formulation and Measurement
10. Ch 7: Problem Formulation
11. Ch 8: Conceptualization in Quantitative and Qualitative Inquiry
12. Ch 9: Measurement
13. Ch 10: Constructing Measurement Instruments
14. Part 4: Designs for Evaluating Programs and Practice
15. Ch 11: Causal Inference and Experimental Designs
16. Ch 12: Quasi-Experimental Designs
17. Ch 13: Single-Case Evaluation Designs
18. Ch 14: Program Evaluation
19. Part 5: Data Collection Methods with Large Sources of Data
20. Ch 15: Sampling
21. Ch 16: Survey Research
22. Ch 17: Analyzing Existing Data: Quantitative and Qualitative Method
23. Part 6: Qualitative Research Methods
24. Ch 18: Qualitative Research: General Principles
25. Ch 19: Qualitative Research: Specific Methods
26. Ch 20: Qualitative Data Analysis
27. Part 7: Analysis of Quantitative Data
28. Ch 21: Descriptive Data Analysis
29. Ch 22: Inferential Data Analysis
30. Part 8: Writing Research Proposals and Reports
31. Ch 23: Writing Research Proposals and Reports

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