Social Science Data Sources & Statistical Methods

This four volume encyclopedia has great explanations of research concepts. You can search this by keyword, however often the best approach is to use the Readers Guide to browse article categories, such as:
- Assessment
- Cognitive and Affective Variables
- Data Visualization Methods
- Disabilities and Disorders
- Distributions
- Evaluation Designs
- Instrument Development
- Research Concepts
- Research Designs
- Research Methods
- Research Tools
-Statistics
-Theories and Conceptual Frameworks
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Outlines the writing process and provides suggestions for getting the "turgid" out of turgid academic prose. Offers suggestions on how to best structure various forms of documents, such as journal articles, academic books, proposals, reports, academic letters, memos, and more.

Covers the principles and history of action research, ethical and legal considerations, methods for conducting both formal and informal action research, data collection methods, analysis and interpretation, action planning and initiation, and results evaluation. Includes numerous examples, strategies, and illustrations that can be applied to elementary and secondary schools as well as university settings.

"It provides concrete examples of how to use authentic inquiry as a basis for collaborating with others to improve the quality of teaching and learning while cogenerating new theory and associated practices that bridge what has been described as a theory-practice divide."

Empowers educators to address the federal Every Student Succeeds Act mandate that schools use evidence-based improvement strategies. Recommendations include utilizing existing research; generating evidence on the success of their own improvement efforts; and building an organizational culture of evidence use.

This edited volume brings together leading scholars from the fields of educational leadership and policy studies to discuss qualitative, quantitative, and mixed research methods.

Reviews theoretical work from around the globe and describes approaches to conducting quantitative, qualitative, and community-based research with participants; doing content or media analysis; and evaluating programs or interventions. The focus is studying gender inequities as they are experienced by individuals and groups from diverse cultural, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds, and with diverse gender identities.

Examines the theory and practice of design-based research (DBR), an important methodology for conducting studies in authentic educational contexts.

"Multilogical research highlights uses of sociocultural theory, authentic, event-oriented, interpretive inquiry, narrative, and willingness to learn from difference. Methodologies are historically constituted, emergent, contingent, and participatory, embracing collaborative, and contemplative practices, and value of many voices and diverse meaning systems."

Provides the structure, detail, and guidance needed for beginning researchers to complete a systematic case study, including how to determine an appropriate research design, conduct informative interviews, record observations, document analyses, delineate ways to confirm case study findings, describe methods for deriving meaning from data, and communicate findings.

A step-by-step guide to qualitative research in the field of education.

Outlines the key methodological approaches to the study of lived experience, texts and social contexts within the field of cultural studies.

Chapters in this text define ethnography, describe researching first-hand experience as well as secondary sources of ethnographic data, covers analysing ethnographic data, using ethnography, writing and representing ethnography, offers ethical considerations, and more. Provided via the Michigan Electronic Library.

Graduate level text covers quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods.
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This textbook for learning the fundamentals of qualitative research methods presents a concise yet rigorous description of how to design and conduct fieldwork projects and how to examine data in multiple ways for interpretive insight.

Professor Shore teaches you to master the five most crucial skills you need to succeed: how to read, write, speak, act, and research at a higher level.

Guides academics through the process of peer reviewing manuscript articles, outlining the methods and proficiencies required to write a high-quality review.

This book draws on the tools and techniques of storytelling employed in fiction and non-fiction writing to help academic writers enhance the clarity, presentation, and flow of their scholarly work.

This guide is for educational researchers interested in conducting ethically sound qualitative studies with diverse populations, including refugees, documented and undocumented immigrants, and people with disabilities. Models an approach of metacritical reflexivity and researcher positionality.

Provides step-by-step guidance for new and experienced interviewers to develop, shape, and reflect on interviewing as a qualitative research process.

Explores the theory behind the method and how to use it to develop and evaluate education projects.

Presents widely used methods and provides students and researchers with a clear understanding of when, how, and why they are applied.

A practical guide to the full range of arts-based research (ABR) genres--narrative inquiry, fiction-based research, poetry, music, dance, theatre, film, and visual art.

This book "is designed to prepare students for the real world of educational research. It focuses on scientifically-based methods, school accountability, and the professional demands of the twenty-first century, empowering researchers to take an active role in conducting research in their classrooms, districts, and the greater educational community."

This accessibly written book is ideal for use in graduate courses or by practicing researchers and evaluators.

Offers narratives that provide real world experiences and accounts of how researchers navigated problematic situations, as well as their considerations in doing so. These contributions give students and researchers a chance to understand the possibilities of research challenges and better prepare for these eventualities and how to deal with them.

Offers a clear understanding of the range of issues related to researcher stance, and an overview of some of the most cutting-edge qualitative techniques in use today with info on processes of data analysis, synthesis and interpretation that are employed in these various approaches.

Focuses on essential concepts in educational statistics, understanding when to use various statistical tests, and how to interpret results. Includes a discussion of testing, test score interpretation, reliability, and validity. A chapter on survey design and analysis provide the book readers with examples which demonstrate how the different statistical tests introduced in the book can be used to analyzed survey data.

Illustrates all the steps in preparing qualitative and quantitative literature reviews.

A concise introduction to the science of journal article publication based on Daniel Kahneman's intuitive judgement theory.

Outlines each chapter of the dissertation as well as the necessary steps to start and complete the dissertation, such as working with a faculty chair and committee, developing a peer support group, and organizing literature.

Guide to understanding, designing, conducting, and presenting a qualitative research study.

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A comprehensive guide on the theoretical foundations & practical application of qualitative methodology. Adopting a phronetic-iterative approach, this book leads readers through the chronological progression of a qualitative research project, from designing a study and collecting & analyzing data to developing theories and effectively communicating the result.

This book presents different data collection and representation techniques: elementary descriptive statistics, confirmatory statistics, multivariate approaches and statistical modeling. The fundamentals of each approach and the reasons behind them are methodically analyzed, and both simple and advanced examples are given to demonstrate how to use them.

Provides a step-by-step guide to using the five major approaches to research design: quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods, arts-based, and community-based participatory research. Chapters on each approach present a template for a research proposal and explain how to conceptualize and fill in every section.

Introduces an approach to qualitative research methodology in education and related fields that is distinct from traditional approaches derived from the behavioral or natural sciences--an approach rooted in the "everyday lived experience" of human beings in educational situations. Offers detailed methodological explications and practical examples of hermeneutic-phenomenological inquiry.

Chapters by experienced IDT researchers address methodologies such as meta-analysis, social media research, user experience design research, eye-tracking research, and phenomenology.

Chapters define and provide practical advice for using grounded theory.

Offers info on both qualitative and quantitative online research, organised into nine sections: 1. Online Research Methods; 2. Designing Online Research; 3. Online Data Capture and Data Collection; 4. The Online Survey; 5. Digital Quantitative Analysis; 6. Digital Text Analysis; 7. Virtual Ethnography; 8. Online Secondary Analysis: Resources and Methods; 9. The Future of Online Social Research.

Includes chapters on traditional analytic strategies such as grounded theory, content analysis, hermeneutics, phenomenology and narrative analysis, as well as coverage of newer trends like mixed methods, reanalysis and meta-analysis.

Chapters cover concepts for collecting qualitative data, details on collecting specific types of data, digital and internet data, triangulation & mixed methods, as well as collecting data on specific populations.

Offers a step-by-step guide to overcoming the challenges in research projects that deal with "big and broad data," from the formulation of research questions to the interpretation of findings. Includes chapters on specific social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

This guidebook on assessment, evaluation, and research in student affairs will be useful to both researchers and student affairs professionals. Chapters written by experts explore evaluation & research design; methodology, data collection, & data analysis; interpreting, reporting, & using results; values, ethics, & politics of SA assessment; and more.

Prepares researchers to develop their own theories and build on existing ones. Concrete strategies are provided to help readers generate ideas, define constructs, and think through relationships and processes that link constructs. Examples from multiple disciplines illustrate the use of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods orientations to theory construction.

Incorporates aesthetic education into social justice discourses and advances qualitative research strategies through the medium of three theoretical frameworks: phenomenology, critical ethnographic research, and poststructuralist theories.

Illustrates the techniques of qualitative research to help readers learn to read, analyze, and design studies themselves.

Designed to help students learn to read educational research articles carefully, systematically, and critically. Readers will learn how to categorize titles, decode abstracts, find research questions, characterize research arguments, break down methods and procedures, explore references, apply analysis strategies, and interpret findings.

An authoritative state-of-the-art review of, and critical reflection on, educational ethnography as it is being theorized and practiced today.

Combines research on feminist and intersectional writing methodologies with explorations of links between academic and creative writing practices. Contributors discuss what it means for academic writing processes to explore intersectional in-between spaces between monolithic identity markers and power differentials such as gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality and nationality.