Graduate research methods in social work / Matt DeCarlo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DeCarlo, Matt, author.

Cummings, Cory, author.

Agnelli, Kate, author.

Contributor:

Open Textbook Library, distributor.

Series:

Open textbook library.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Academic achievement--Textbooks.

Academic achievement.

Social sciences--Textbooks.

Social sciences.

Genre:

Textbooks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Distribution:

Minneapolis, MN Open Textbook Library.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Open Social Work Education [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

We designed our book to help graduate social work students through every step of the research process, from conceptualization to dissemination. Our textbook centers cultural humility, information literacy, pragmatism, and an equal emphasis on quantitative and qualitative methods. It includes extensive content on literature reviews, cultural bias and respectfulness, and qualitative methods, in contrast to traditionally used commercial textbooks in social work research. Our author team spans across academic, public, and nonprofit social work research. We love research, and we endeavored through our book to make research more engaging, less painful, and easier to understand. Our textbook exercises direct students to apply content as they are reading the book to an original research project. By breaking it down step-by-step, writing in approachable language, as well as using stories from our life, practice, and research experience, our textbook helps professors overcome students' research methods anxiety and antipathy. If you decide to adopt our resource, we ask that you complete this short Adopter's Survey that helps us keep track of our community impact. You can also contact profmattdecarlo@gmail.com for a student workbook, homework assignments, slideshows, a draft bank of quiz questions, and a course calendar.

Contents:

Part 1: Introduction to research

1. Science and social work

2. Starting your research project

3. Searching the literature

4. Critical information literacy

5. Writing your literature review

Part 2: Conceptualizing your research project

6. Research ethics

7. Theory and paradigm

8. Reasoning and causality

9. Writing your research question

Part 3: Using quantitative methods

10. Quantitative sampling

11. Quantitative measurement

12. Survey design

13. Experimental design

14. Univariate analysis

15. Bivariate analysis

16. Reporting quantitative results

Part 4: Using qualitative methods

17. Qualitative data and sampling

18. Qualitative data collection

19. A survey of approaches to qualitative data analysis

20. Quality in qualitative studies: Rigor in research design

21. Qualitative research dissemination

22. A survey of qualitative designs

Part 5: Research in practice

23. Program evaluation

24. Sharing and consuming research

Notes:

Description based on print resource

ISBN:

9781949373219