Practical research and evaluation : a start-to-finish guide for p ractitioners / edited by Colin McCaig, Lena Dahlberg. - London : SAGE, 2010. - viii, 263 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Practitioner research and the research process / Introduction to research and evaluation basics / Research and evaluation design / Ethics and research governance / Writing a research proposal or brief / Literature reviews / Action research / Dif ferent kinds of qualitative data collection methods / Preparation and process of qualitative inte rviews and focus groups / Qualitative data analys is / Different kinds of quantita tive data collection methods / Quantitative data c ollection / Quantitative data processing and anal ysis / Dissemination / Lena Dahlberg an d Colin McCaig -- Lena Dahlberg and Colin McCaig -- Colin McCaig -- Maria Smit h -- Colin McCaig and Lena Dahlberg -- Tamsin Bowers-Brown and Anna St evens -- Scott Fernie and Karen Smith -- Maria Smith an d Tamsin Bowers-Brown -- Joanne Davis -- Karen Smith and Joanne Davies -- Jason Leman -- Jason Leman -- Guillaumette Haughton and Anna Stevens -- Colin McCaig and Lena Dahlberg.

9781847870032 (hbk.) 1847870031 (hbk.) 184787004X (pbk.) 9781847870049 (pbk.)


Social sciences--Research.
Research--Evaluation.

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