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Statistics with R: A Beginner\'s Guide

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...

Evaluating Research

By Francis C. Dane

Provides students the tools to understand the components of research and the skills to read and evaluate research studies. This book focuses on qualitative research, including summaries of research traditions, and statistical analyses. Each chapter includes an overview at the beginning and exercises at the end to reinforce the content...

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 -...

Multimethod Research, Causal Mechanisms, and Case Studies

By Gary Goertz

An innovative and accessible textbook on multimethod and case-study research Multimethod research has become indispensable to doing social science, and is essential to anyone who conducts large-scale research projects in political science, sociology, education, comparative law, or business. This authoritative and accessible book offers the first truly comprehensive approach to...

SPSS Demystified

By Ronald D. Yockey

Without question, statistics is one of the most challenging courses for students in the social and behavioral sciences. Enrolling in their first statistics course, students are often apprehensive or extremely anxious toward the subject matter. And while SPSS is one of the more easy-to-use statistical software programs available, for anxious...

Big Data in Education

By Ben Williamson

This cutting-edge overview explores big data and the related topic of computer code, examining the implications for education and schooling for today and the near future.

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.