Stephen Gorard

Research Design

Creating Robust Approaches for the Social Sciences

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Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses the nature of design, design notation, a flexible approach to new designs, a range of standard design models, and tips for real-life problems - all in an easy to understand style, for those wanting to design research and make critical judgements about the designs of others

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: B49017P
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9781446249024
• ISBN-10: 1446249026
• Artikelnr.: 36684715

Autorenporträt

Stephen Gorard is the Professor of Education Research at the University of Birmingham, Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences, introducer for the ESRC Grant Awarding Panel A, and a methods expert for the US Institute of Education Science panel on Mathematics and Science. His research concerns the robust evaluation of education as a lifelong society-wide process, focused on issues of equity and effectiveness. He has successfully conducted over 70 projects funded by government and other sources, and is the author of hundreds of research books and articles. His work appears regularly in the media, and is much used by local and international policy-makers. He is currently an evaluator for the European Commission Directorate-General for Regional Policy, the Educational Endowment Foundation, the Learning and Skills Information Service, the Department of Work and Pensions, and the Food Standards Agency.

Inhaltsangabe

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION - 'DESIGN' AS DISTINCT FROM METHODS
What Is Research Design?
Introducing Designs in the Cycle of Research
PART TWO: THE PRELIMINARIES OF RESEARCH DESIGN
Identifying Researchable Questions
Warranting Research Claims
The Nature of Causal Claims
PART THREE: PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
Identifying the Sample or Cases
Comparing for Comparative Claims
Matters of Timing and Sequence
Evaluating Controlled Interventions
PART FOUR: MORE ADVANCED CONSIDERATIONS
Further Designs for Evaluation
Challenges for Validity
How Big Is a Difference?
A Second Principle of Ethics
PART FIVE: CONCLUSION
Revisiting the Need for Robust Design

Rezensionen

This is a landmark text in the neglected field of research design. Gorard provides a unique introduction to planning and executing a research project that is both grounded in well-established traditions and radical in its approach. Perhaps the most important methods text published in many years
Patrick White
University of Leicester

For the first time this book has made me realize the need and worth of doing real social science research. Page after page made me think clearly about research design and its essential importance. The book will have an everlasting impact on my view of any research project. I must say that it is the only book I have ever come across that reads so simply and so naturally about research design in social sciences. This book is surely the 'bible' of social science research for me
Nadia Siddiqui
Lecturer, Fatima Jinnah Women's University, Pakistan