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Real world research : a resource for social scientists and practitioner-researchers / Colin Robson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : Blackwell, 1993.Description: xvi, 510 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0631176888 (alk. paper)
  • 9780631176886
  • 9780631176893
  • 0631176896
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • H62.R627 1993
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Contents:
CONTENTS PART I: BEFORE YOU START 1. Real world enquiry -- 2. Developing a proposal -- PART II: DESIGNING THE ENQUIRY 3. General design issues -- 4. Experimental design outside the laboratory -- 5. Designing small surveys -- 6. Designing case studies -- 7. Designing evaluations -- PART III: TACTICS - THE METHODS OF DATA COLLECTION 8. Observational methods -- 9. Interviews and questionnaires -- 10. Unobtrusive measures and other approaches -- PART IV: DEALING WITH THE DATA 11. The analysis of quantitative data -- 12. The analysis of qualitative data -- PART V: MAKING AN IMPACT 13. Reporting on the enquiry -- 14. Intervention and change -- 15. Researchers and practitioners.
Summary: Advises on the carrying out of real world research, where graduates in psychology and related social or behavioural sciences are required to perform enquiry tasks outside the laboratory. The book describes systematic procedures appropriate to the tasks.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [479]-501) and index.

CONTENTS
PART I: BEFORE YOU START
1. Real world enquiry --
2. Developing a proposal --
PART II: DESIGNING THE ENQUIRY
3. General design issues --
4. Experimental design outside the laboratory --
5. Designing small surveys --
6. Designing case studies --
7. Designing evaluations --
PART III: TACTICS - THE METHODS OF DATA COLLECTION
8. Observational methods --
9. Interviews and questionnaires --
10. Unobtrusive measures and other approaches --
PART IV: DEALING WITH THE DATA
11. The analysis of quantitative data --
12. The analysis of qualitative data --
PART V: MAKING AN IMPACT
13. Reporting on the enquiry --
14. Intervention and change --
15. Researchers and practitioners.

Advises on the carrying out of real world research, where graduates in psychology and related social or behavioural sciences are required to perform enquiry tasks outside the laboratory. The book describes systematic procedures appropriate to the tasks.

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