Using Research Instruments - A Guide for Researchers

Zusatztext 'A useful! accessible and short guide for the novice researcher in social sciences at undergraduate level! and also for those practitioners conducting research within their organizations without seeking academic credit.' - Professor Malcom Tight! Department of Continuing Education! Warwick University on its companion title! The Researchers Toolkit'...the authors have produced a book that will help new researchers operationalise the process of data collection. What is especially good about the book is that it is not 'precious' about research...the authors have clearly worked in the real world and know that method has to be modelled to suit the situation'. - Professor Peter Newby! Middlesex University Informationen zum Autor David Wilkinson is a Research Fellow within the Work-Based Learning Unit at the University of Leeds. Peter Birmingham is a Research Officer at the University of Oxford! Department of Educational Studies. Zusammenfassung This practical, jargon-free, user-friendly guide to the most appropriate use of research instruments provides 'real' examples used in actual projects by practitioners of social and educational research. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Questionnaires 2. Interviews 3. Content Analysis 4. Focus Groups 5. Observation 6. Researching the Things People Say and Do Bibliography

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• Authors: Birmingham, Peter Birmingham, Peter Wilkinson Birmingham, Birmingham Peter, David Wilkinson, David (David Wilkinson is a Research Fellow within the Work-Based Learning Unit at the University of Leeds.) Wilkinson, Physician's Assistant (Anaesthesia) David Wilkinson, Physician's Assistant (Anaesthesia) David (David Wilkinson Is a Research Fellow Within the Work-Based Learning Unit at the University of Leeds) Wilkinson
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.12.2016
• EAN: 9781138155558
• ISBN: 978-1-138-15555-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Routledge Study Guides; Routledge Study Guides
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Education, Business and Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Reference, EDUCATION / Reference, Business & management, Reference works