Practical research and evaluation : a start-to-finish guide for practitioners /
Lena Dahlberg.
- London : SAGE, 2010.
- viii, 263 p.: 24 cm.
Includes bibliographic references and index
Practitioner research and the research process / Lena Dahlberg and Colin McCaig -- Introduction to research and evaluation basics / Lena Dahlberg and Colin McCaig -- Research and evaluation design / Colin McCaig -- Ethics and research governance / Maria Smith -- Writing a research proposal or brief / Colin McCaig and Lena Dahlberg -- Literature reviews / Tamsin Bowers-Brown and Anna Stevens -- Action research / Scott Fernie and Karen Smith -- Different kinds of qualitative data collection methods / Maria Smith and Tamsin Bowers-Brown -- Preparation and process of qualitative interviews and focus groups / Joanne Davis -- Qualitative data analysis / Karen Smith and Joanne Davies -- Different kinds of quantitative data collection methods / Jason Leman -- Quantitative data collection / Jason Leman -- Quantitative data processing and analysis / Guillaumette Haughton and Anna Stevens -- Dissemination / Colin McCaig and Lena Dahlberg.
A self-help DIY book for doing research - tells the reader everything they need to know to do research, and to understand others` research.