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Mavs Open Press
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1.1 How do social workers know what to do?
1.2 Common errors in thinking and reasoning
1.3 Social work research
1.4 The scientific method
2.1 Practical considerations
2.2 Raw data
2.3 Data management and analysis
2.4 Critical considerations
3.1 Human subjects research
3.2 Specific ethical issues to consider
3.3 Benefits and harms of research across the ecosystem
3.4 Being an ethical researcher
4.1 Inductive and deductive reasoning
4.2 Nomothetic explanations
4.3 Nomothetic causality
4.4 Idiographic causal explanations
4.5 Mixed-methods research
5.1 Assumptions underlying research
5.2 Ethical and critical considerations
5.3 Social work research paradigms
5.4 Using theory in research design
5.5 Developing a theoretical framework
6.1 Searching the literature
6.2 Searching basics
6.3 Evaluating sources
6.4 Annotating sources
6.5 Critical information literacy
7.1 Reading results in quantitative research
7.2 Reading qualitative results
8.1 Tools that might be useful for your literature review
8.2 Synthesizing information
8.3 Writing your literature review
9.1 Writing a good research question
9.2 Quantitative research questions
9.3 Qualitative research questions
9.4 Evaluating and updating research questions
10.1 What is measurement?
10.2 Conceptual definitions
10.3 Operational definitions
10.4 Measurement quality: Reliability
10.5 Measurement quality: Validity
10.6 Measurement quality: Sensitivity, specificity, and predictive value
10.7 Measurement error and reducing measurement bias
10.8 Ethical and social justice considerations
11.1 The sampling process
11.2 Nonprobability sampling approaches
11.3 Probability sampling approaches
11.4 Sample size
11.5 Sample quality
12.1 What is survey research, and when should you use it?
12.2 Survey Considerations
12.3 Secondary data analysis using data from prior survey research
12.4 Bias and cultural considerations
13.1 Writing effective survey questions and questionnaires
14.1 What is experimental design and when should you use it?
14.2 True experiments
14.3 Quasi-experimental designs
14.4 Pre-experimental design
14.5 Threats to internal validity
14.6 Critical, ethical, and cultural considerations
15.1 The basics of single-system research design
15.2 Types of Single-Systems Research Designs
15.3 Measurement in single-systems design research
15.4 Data analysis in single-systems research design
15.5 Strengths and weaknesses of single-systems design
16.1 Introduction to Qualitative Research Design
17.1 Ethical responsibility and cultural respect
17.2 Critical considerations
17.3 Preparations for the data gathering process
17.4 Interviews
17.5 Focus groups
17.6 Observations
17.7 Documents and other artifacts
18.1 Ethical responsibility and cultural respectfulness
18.2 Critical considerations
18.3 Preparations: Creating a plan for qualitative data analysis Learning Objectives
18.4 Thematic analysis
18.5 Content analysis
18.6 Grounded theory analysis
19.1 Case Study
19.2 Constructivist
19.3 Oral history
19.4 Phenomenology
19.5 Narrative
19.6 Photo voice
19.7 Ethnography
20.1 Introduction to qualitative rigor
20.2 Ethical responsibility and cultural respectfulness
20.3 Critical considerations
20.4 Data capture: Striving for accuracy in our raw data
20.5 Data management: Keeping track of our data and our analysis
20.6 Tools to account for our influence
21.1 Sharing your results
21.2 Sharing with an academic audience
21.3 Peer-Reviewed Empirical Journal Articles
21.4 Sharing with professional and lay audiences
21.5 The future of research is open
22.1 Ethical, cultural and critical considerations when reporting qualitative research
22.3 Informing your dissemination plan
22.4 Final product taking shape
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