Research and Evaluation for Busy Students and Practitioners : A Time-Saving Guide

For students and practitioners in health, social care, criminal justice, and education services, this guide explains the fundamental principles and practices of academic and workplace research and evaluation. It describes quantitative and qualitative research, the role of service users, and research ethics; choosing a topic, refining it into a research question, and writing a research proposal or plan; managing the research process, including planning, organization, and time management; conducting document and literature reviews, recordkeeping, critical and strategic reading, finding open access materials, using libraries, and making notes; working with secondary data, collecting primary data, and preparing, coding, analyzing, and synthesizing it; the writing process; and research dissemination. Quotes from practitioners are incorporated throughout. Revised, this edition has a new foreword, a new chapter on methodologies, and updated practical information, as well as a revised and updated companion website. Distributed in North America by University of Chicago Press. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)