基本説明
Provides methods for determining the validity of evidence and how to justify an acceptable level of "proof" based on science, experience, and values.
Full Description
Practicing Research: Discovering Evidence That Matters provides students, practitioners, and researchers with guidance on best practices. The book's eight chapters correspond to the skills that research consumers need to discover evidence that matters. Author Arlene Fink pays special attention to facilitating student learning by offeringing over a hundred examples, exercises, tables, figures, and checklists, as well as an extensive glossary. All the examples are taken from existing research and programs and grounded in the practitioner's reality.
Key Features
Provides methods for determining the validity of evidence and how to justify an acceptable level of "proof" based on science, experience, and values
Offers practical frameworks to guide the research process and take the student from needs assessment to program implementation and evaluation through to implementation of results
Shows how to engage diverse stakeholders (communities, teachers) in the research process
Accompanied by a companion Website that consists of Web exercises for students for each chapter
Intended Audience
This text is intended to be the core text or one of the primary texts for applied research courses at the graduate level in Education, Social Work, Public Administration and Policy, Evaluation, Health, Nursing, and Criminal Justice. Readers should have a passing familiarity with the idea of research, but no special research expertise is necessary.
Contents
Preface
Figures
Examples
Chapter 1. The Evaluation Research and Evidence-Based Practice Partnership
Chapter 2. The Research Consumer as Detective: Investigating Program and Bibliographic Data Bases
Chapter 3: The Practical Research Consumer
Chapter 4. The Designing Research Consumer
Chapter 5. The Research Consumer Reviews the Measures
Chapter 6. The Research Consumer Evaluates Measurement Reliability and Validity
Chapter 7. Getting Closer: Grading the Literature and Evaluating the Strength of the Evidence
Chapter 8. The Ethical Research Consumer Assesses Needs and Evaluates Improvement Identifying Needs, Preferences and Values
Glossary
Appendix
References
