Planning and Conducting Agency-Based Research: A Workbook for Social Work Students in Field Placements - Couverture souple

Westerfelt, Alex J.; Dietz, Tracy J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0801334152 ISBN 13 : 9780801334153

Editeur : Pearson, 2001

Synopsis

This unique workbook provides students and instructors with step-by-step procedures for completing an agency-based research study.

The workbook, in 8 1/2 x 11 format, can be used in a field work course while students are actually at a welfare agency conducting their research. It is also designed for research courses to help students learn to conduct a study at a social welfare agency. Or it can be used during their practicum or senior seminars to help them design and write their senior year project or thesis. The workbook is user-friendly, written in clear language with concrete instructions, and includes spaces for student responses. By using the workbook, students will be able to proceed step-by-step to design and conduct a research study.

In this edition, the authors have included a new section on outcomes evaluation (Section IX), many new examples, and a fully annotated sample literature review.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

This unique workbook provides students and instructors with step-by-step procedures for use completing an agency-based research study. Written in clear language with concrete instructions, the third edition of Planning and Conduction Agency-Based Research includes a fully annotated sample literature review and spaces for student responses.

Highlights of the Third Edition:

• Step-by-step workbook format with perforated pages takes students through the process of conducting an agency-based research project, while allowing students to write in book or hand in as assignments.
• Provides students with many practical examples, including a list of suggested projects, a fully annotated literature review, examples of how to use existing literature, and sample consent forms.
• Expanded section on data analysis provides more material on statistical tests and more examples of ways to organize and present data.
• Expanded section on outcomes evaluation includes material on the use of logic models to help students develop program outcomes and their measures.

Reviewer comments:

“This is a book worth adopting because it is hands-on, user friendly, practical, and downright helpful to beginning researchers. It is very concrete and the examples used were very helpful.”
Jacquelyn Monroe, The Ohio State University

“The workbook is straightforward and breaks the process into manageable steps that should alleviate much of students' anxiety, which, in my experience, is the biggest barrier to students engaging in research.”
Wanda M. Spaid, Brigham Young University “ Planning and Conducting Agency-Based Research tends to demystify the process by adroitly using examples and by breaking down the research process into manageable and easily understood components. In short, it is an excellent basic step-by-step approach to research.”
Howard Karger, University of Houston

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This unique workbook provides students and instructors with step-by-step procedures for completing an agency-based research study.

The workbook, in 8 1/2 x 11 format, can be used in a field work course while students are actually at a welfare agency conducting their research. It is also designed for research courses to help students learn to conduct a study at a social welfare agency. Or it can be used during their practicum or senior seminars to help them design and write their senior year project or thesis. The workbook is user-friendly, written in clear language with concrete instructions, and includes spaces for student responses. By using the workbook, students will be able to proceed step-by-step to design and conduct a research study.

In this edition, the authors have included a new section on outcomes evaluation (Section IX), many new examples, and a fully annotated sample literature review.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pearson
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801334152
• ISBN 13: 9780801334153
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Riccardo Bacigalupo; riccardo.bacigalupo@sanoma.it; ; Sanoma Italia Via Arconati, 1 �; Milano; 20135; Italie