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Statistics with R

By Robert Stinerock

This dynamic, student-focused textbook provides step-by-step instruction in the use of R and of statistical language as a general research tool.

Small-Scale Evaluation

By Colin Robson

Evaluation research can assess the value and effectiveness of interventions and innovations involving people. While this has often been on a grand scale, this book focuses on small-scale projects carried out by an individual or small group, typically lasting for weeks or at most a few months, at a local...

Research Methods in Tourism, Hospitality and Events Manageme

By Susan Horner

A step-by-step approach to guide students through the whole research process, from initial ideas, through to writing up and presenting the findings.

Being Ethnographic

By Raymond Madden

Being Ethnographic is an essential introductory guidebook to the methods and applications of doing fieldwork in real-world settings. It discusses the future of ethnography, explores how we understand identity, and sets out the role of technology in a global, networked society. Driven by classic and anecdotal case studies, Being Ethnographic...

Research Methods: The Basics

By Nicholas Walliman

Research Methods: The Basics is an accessible, user-friendly introduction to the different aspects of research theory, methods and practice. This second edition provides an expanded resource suitable for students and practitioners in a wide range of disciplines including the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities. Structured in two parts -...

SAGE Handbook of Research on Teacher Education

The SAGE Handbook of Research on Teacher Education offers an ambitious and international overview of the current landscape of teacher education research, as well as the imagined futures.

Experiments in Public Management Research

An overview of experimental research and methods in public management, and their impact on theory, research practices and substantive knowledge.

Using Randomised Controlled Trials in Education

By Sarah Miller

Drawing on their own extensive experience of running RCTs, this book provides a thorough, practical introduction to the use of RCTs in education. It also examines the controversial aspects of Randomised Controlled Trials RCT in education and sets out the potential and pitfalls of the method.

Early Language Learning

Quantitative Methods in Tourism

By Jane Klobas

In this revised second edition, the authors offer a presentation of quantitative research methods for tourism researchers. This accessible and rigorous guide covers common issues in statistical analysis of data and the most widely-used techniques as well as several newer and less common approaches to data analysis.