Research Methods: General

Contributors to this collection address the ways in which interdisciplinarity is defined, positioned, and handled by researchers, universities, and...

An interdisciplinary look at interaction in the standardized surveyinterview This volume presents a theoretical and empirical inquiry into theinte...

Noted survey experts present recent developments in telephone survey techniques from around the world, describing work in commercial settings, acad...

The definitive resource for survey questionnaire testing and evaluation Over the past two decades, methods for the development, evaluation, and te...

PRACTICAL METHODOLOGIES FOR CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH Since all research is in a sense comparative, it is sometimes argued that methods and requirem...

Provides new insights into the accuracy and value of online panels for completing surveys Over the last decade, there has been a major global shift...

A complete guide to applied research, featuring original data and detailed case studies Applied Research Methods in Public and Nonprofit Organizat...

This book provides a comprehensive and up to date treatment of  theory and practical implementation in Register-based statistics. It begins by defi...

The claim that contemporary analytic philosophers rely extensively on intuitions as evidence is almost universally accepted in current meta-philoso...

No less than a revolutionary transformation of the research enterprise is underway. This transformation extends beyond the natural sciences, where ...

Features easy-to-follow insight and clear guidelines to perform data analysis using IBM SPSS® Performing Data Analysis Using IBM SPSS® uniquely a...

Explore the essential steps for data collection, reporting, and analysis in business research Understanding Business Research offers a comprehensiv...

Continual technological evolution has led to an explosion of new techniques in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research. Research Methods in Human...

Political science is an intensely quantitative discipline, and models are central. Political scientists use models--formal and informal, statistica...

Editor Vibiana Bowman has drawn together contributions from some of the leading scholars in the interdisciplinary field of children and childhood s...

Physicians, health researchers, and nurses make extensive use of focus groups. Thus, researchers and readers need access to the realm of applicatio...

Despite the obvious importance of measurement in any scientific endeavor, few students of the social sciences receive adequate training in the prin...

Getting Started in Research is for people in the earlier stages of development as a researcher. In contrast to the many books available on techniqu...

This is a companion volume to Causal Models in the Social Sciences, the majority of articles concern panel designs involving repeated measurements ...

Handbook of Research Methods in Industrial and Organizational Psychology is a comprehensive and contemporary treatment of research philosophies, ap...

Latent growth curve modeling (LGM)—a special case of confirmatory factor analysis designed to model change over time—is an indispensable and increa...

"Willis catches the student up on relevant aspects of philosophy, empiricism, history, and prevailing political influences. This building of chrono...

Community-Based Research, or CBR, is a mix of innovative, participatory approaches that put the community at the heart of the research process. Lea...