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  • Empowerment Evaluation Principles in Practice

    Edited by David M. Fetterman, PhD, Abraham Wandersman, PhD ...
    What principles should guide an empowerment evaluation? And how can these principles actually be put into practice? One of the primary tasks in an empowerment evaluation (EE) is to increase the capacity of program stakeholders to plan, implement, and evaluate their own programs. This book presents the most current formulation of the 10 principles of EE and provides professionals and students with ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

  • Empowerment Evaluation

    Knowledge and Tools for Self-Assessment, Evaluation Capacity Building, and Accountability

    Edited by David Fetterman, Abraham Wandersman, Shakeh J. Kaftarian ...
    This Second Edition celebrates 21 years of the practice of empowerment evaluation, a term first coined by David Fetterman during his presidential address for the American Evaluation Association. Since that time, this approach has altered the landscape of evaluation and has spread to a wide range of settings in more than 16 countries. In this new book, an outstanding group of evaluators from ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • Neighborhood and Community Environments

    Edited by Irwin Altman, Abraham Wandersman ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This ninth volume in the series deals with a fascinating and complex topic in the environment and behavior field. Neighborhoods and com munities are in various stages of formation and transition in almost every society, nation, and culture. A variety of political, economic, and social factors have resulted in the formation of new communities and the transformation of older communities. Thus we see ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • Qualitative Research

    Studying How Things Work

    by Robert E. Stake, PhD ...
    This book provides invaluable guidance for thinking through and planning a qualitative study. Rather than offering recipes for specific techniques, master storyteller Robert Stake stimulates readers to discover "how things work" in organizations, programs, communities, and other systems. Topics range from identifying a research question to selecting methods, gathering data, interpreting and ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • When Research Goes Off the Rails

    Why It Happens and What You Can Do About It

    Edited by David L. Streiner, PhD, Souraya Sidani, PhD ...
    Few behavioral or health science studies proceed seamlessly. This refreshingly candid guide presents firsthand vignettes of obstacles on the bumpy road of research and offers feasible, easy-to-implement solutions. Contributors from a range of disciplines describe real-world problems at each stage of a quantitative or qualitative research project—from gaining review board approval to collecting and ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • When to Use What Research Design

    by W. Paul Vogt, PhD, Dianne C. Gardner, PhD, Lynne M. Haeffele, PhD ...
    Systematic, practical, and accessible, this is the first book to focus on finding the most defensible design for a particular research question. Thoughtful guidelines are provided for weighing the advantages and disadvantages of various methods, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods designs. The book can be read sequentially or readers can dip into chapters on specific stages of ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Five Ways of Doing Qualitative Analysis

    Phenomenological Psychology, Grounded Theory, Discourse Analysis, Narrative Research, and Intuitive

    by Frederick J. Wertz, PhD, Kathy Charmaz, PhD, Linda M. McMullen, PhD, Ruthellen Josselson, PhD, Rosemarie Anderson, PhD, Emalinda McSpadden, MA ...
    This unique text provides a broad introduction to qualitative analysis together with concrete demonstrations and comparisons of five major approaches. Leading scholars apply their respective analytic lenses to a narrative account and interview featuring "Teresa," a young opera singer who experienced a career-changing illness. The resulting analyses vividly exemplify what each approach looks like ... Read more

    $60.29 USD

  • Research Project Management: 25 Free Tools

    by Ruth Belling ...
    Do you need to manage a research project?This guide presents and partially reviews 25 online tools and resources, available at zero cost, to help researchers, evaluators, doctoral students and supervisors, research managers and administrators, with a range of activities and skills involved in managing research successfully.Includes tools and resources for:• Project planning• Goal-setting• Time ... Read more

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  • Missing Data

    A Gentle Introduction

    by Patrick E. McKnight, PhD, Katherine M. McKnight, PhD, Souraya Sidani, PhD, Aurelio José Figueredo, PhD ...
    Series series Methodology in the Social Sciences Series
    While most books on missing data focus on applying sophisticated statistical techniques to deal with the problem after it has occurred, this volume provides a methodology for the control and prevention of missing data. In clear, nontechnical language, the authors help the reader understand the different types of missing data and their implications for the reliability, validity, and ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Evaluation in the Face of Uncertainty

    Anticipating Surprise and Responding to the Inevitable

    by Jonathan A. Morell, PhD ...
    Unexpected events during an evaluation all too often send evaluators into crisis mode. This insightful book provides a systematic framework for diagnosing, anticipating, accommodating, and reining in costs of evaluation surprises. The result is evaluation that is better from a methodological point of view, and more responsive to stakeholders. Jonathan A. Morell identifies the types of surprises ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Interviewing for Qualitative Inquiry

    A Relational Approach

    by Ruthellen Josselson, PhD ...
    Engagingly written, this book builds the reader's skills for conducting in-depth interviews designed to address a particular research question. With an emphasis on the dynamics of the research relationship, Ruthellen Josselson artfully demonstrates the steps of a successful interview. Each step is illustrated with excerpts from interviews on diverse topics. The book describes how to structure ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Introductory Statistics

    A Conceptual Approach Using R

    by William B. Ware, John M. Ferron, Barbara M. Miller ...
    This comprehensive and uniquely organized text is aimed at undergraduate and graduate level statistics courses in education, psychology, and other social sciences. A conceptual approach, built around common issues and problems rather than statistical techniques, allows students to understand the conceptual nature of statistical procedures and to focus more on cases and examples of analysis. ... Read more

    $165.00 USD