Methods Coach Learning Through Practice

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-542658-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 201 mm x 251 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

A companion volume to core research methods texts, The Methods Coach: Learning Through Practice helps students bridge the 'knowing-doing gap'. That is, while core texts help students understand research methods, the coaching program in this supplementary volume helps students do research methods. The three-part structure of each lab-a 'tune-up', a lab application, and constructive feedback-optimizes students' ability to apply and practise the theories, concepts, and techniques presented in introduction to research methods courses. As a result, The Methods Coach offers much more than conventional study guides, which instead tend to focus on learning comprehension via chapter summaries, review of major concepts, and sample test questions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roberts

Roberts, Lance

Kampen, Karen

Peter, Tracey

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 'You Play the Way you Practice': A Preface for Students

- Lab 1: The Building Blocks: Variables and Hypotheses

- Lab 2: Errors in Reasoning

- Lab 3: Conceptual and Operational Definitions

- Lab 4: Levels of Measurement

- Lab 5: Quantitative Sampling Considerations

- Lab 6: Survey Design Issues

- Lab 7: Content Analysis-Instrument Pre-testing

- Lab 8: Content Analysis-Collecting the Data

- Lab 9: Content Analysis-Processing the Data

- Lab 10: Qualitative Field Observation

- Lab 11: Using Existing and Official Statistics

- Lab 12: Causal Thinking

- Tips for Lab Applications

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lance Roberts is a Professor in the Sociology Department and a Fellow of St John's College at the University of Manitoba. He recently completed a term as Director of the Winnipeg Area Study, a survey research unit. For over three decades he has taught undergraduate and graduate methods and statistics courses and is the author of several books and dozens of articles on topics related to social trends, ethnic relations, education, and inequality.

Karen Kampen is a Doctoral Candidate in the Sociology Department's PhD program at the University of Manitoba, where she holds the position of Lab Instructor.

Tracey Peter is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at University of Manitoba.