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Quantitative Research Methods for Social Work
Making Social Work Count
- 276 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Quantitative Research Methods for Social Work
Making Social Work Count
About this book
Quantitative research makes a very important contribution to both understanding and responding effectively to the problems that social work service users face. In this unique and authoritative text, a group of expert authors explore the key areas of data collection, analysis and evaluation and outline in detail how they can be applied to practice.
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Yes, you can access Quantitative Research Methods for Social Work by Barbra Teater,John Devaney,Donald Forrester in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Social Work. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Lists of figures, tables, boxes and outputs
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Why numbers matter in social work
- 3 Who is being studied?
- 4 What is being studied?
- 5 How to describe issues using numbers
- 6 How to know if a service makes a difference
- 7 How to use numbers to describe a sample
- 8 How to make a decision with confidence
- 9 How to know if two variables are related
- 10 What is the effect of one or more variables on another variable?
- 11 What are the key elements of ethical quantitative research?
- 12 How to do quantitative research without collecting new data
- 13 Using mixed quantitative and qualitative methods in social work research
- Answers to exercises and critical thinking boxes
- References
- Index