The book emphasizes issues such as indicator generation and modification, the nature and conceptual meaning of measurement error, and the day-to-day processes involved in developing and using measures. The Handbook covers the full range of disciplines where measurement studies are common: policy studies; education studies; health studies; and business studies.
Contents include Ethical Aspects, Skills, Risk Assessment and Management, Collecting, Analyzing, interpreting Data, and Presenting Findings for Sensitive Social Work Research.
This book covers - conceptualization, ethics, cultural competence, design, qualitative research, individual and program evaluation as well as nonparametric and parametric statistical tests. The tests are explained narratively, mathematically as well as with a comprehensive step-by-step, fully illustrated SPSS computer analysis of social work data.
Sage Research Methods Online provides content across the social and behavioral sciences. Covers quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods and includes the entire "Little Green Book" and "Little Blue Book" series.
For more resources, uses these subject headings in Library Search. Selecting Methodology below will return results in Library Search for books and media about social work research and methodology.
How to read journal articles and statistical outputs
Learning and terminology resources from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICSPR)
How to Read a Journal Article (pdf) - Tips and tricks to make reading and understanding social science journal articles easier.
A Guide to Interpreting SPSS Output (pdf) - How to interpret frequency distributions, crosstabulations, comparison of means tests, correlations, and OLS regressions done in SPSS.