Research Methods Help Guide

This reference book visually presents quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research designs in education and the social and behavioral sciences in a way that students and researchers can readily understand and accurately apply in their own investigations.

Introduces an accessible approach to integrating design and statistics, focusing on the processes of posing, testing, and interpreting research questions in the social sciences.

While addressing both the why and the how of practitioner research in school settings the authors have kept closely in touch with the practical concerns of busy professionals.

Research is increasingly becoming more influential in the field of education and this Handbook brings together a range of top academic experts who represent diverse fields within and outside of education, as well as quantitative, qualitative, and mixed method approaches to provide an up-to-date, advanced analysis of all relevant issues involved in educational research.

Action research is a term used to describe a family of related approaches that integrate theory and action with a goal of addressing important organizational, community, and social issues together with those who experience them. It focuses on the creation of areas for collaborative learning and the design, enactment and evaluation of liberating actions through combining action and research, reflection and action in an ongoing cycle of cogenerative knowledge.

Helps researchers to plan, carry out, and analyse health research, and evaluate the quality of research studies. This book is suitable for researchers and graduate students in health services evaluation, health sciences, health management, public health, nursing, and sociology.

This text presents methodological issues critical to starting a biomedical study, focusing on the role and structure of the scientific hypothesis in informing methods and statistical analysis plan and in data interpretation.

This comprehensive and accessible textbook offers a complete grounding in both qualitative and quantitative research methods for the sports studies student. The book offers the reader a step-by-step guide to the research process, from designing a research project, to collecting and analysing data, to reporting the research.

Thoroughly updated, this book introduces the major issues involved in designing and conducting original research relevant to the fields of library and information science.

This very practical and clear guide offers step-by-step guidance for using traditional research methods to help improve, validate, and ultimately advance the day-to-day work and purpose of libraries. Beck and Manuel's straight-forward and understandable approach shows how different methodologies, including focus groups, usability tests, action research, transaction analysis, and bibliometrics, can be used to evaluate and enhance library functions.

This concise, practical and accessible introduction to research in nursing provides a "how to" guide to the basics of research and offers an overview of the way research is used in nursing to promote developments in practice, influence policy, enhance care delivery, and improve patient outcomes.

This book gives an overview of the important elements across nursing and health research.

Nursing Research: Reading, Using and Creating Evidence, Third Edition is an essential text for nursing research courses. This new edition features expanded coverage on the appraisal and use of evidence in the profession of Nursing. As in past editions the text will maintain its traditional focus on research while weaving in an emphasis on evidence-based practice. The text will keep its focus on "how to conduct" research rather than "how to apply" it. Nursing Research: Reading, Using and Creating Evidence, Third Edition will also focus on the dissemination of information and research best practices as conferences and other such resources become more available to students and professionals. The text is intended as an undergraduate resource for pre-licensure or for the RN-to-BSN students taking nursing research or evidence-based practice classes.

This book provides a time-tested step-by-step approach to nursing research, and abundant use of research examples.