Understanding and evaluating research : a critical guide /
"Understanding and Evaluating Research: A Critical Guide shows students how to be critical consumers of research and to appreciate the power of methodology as it shapes the research question, the use of theory in the study, the methods used, and how the outcomes are reported. The book starts wi...
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Thousand Oaks, California :
SAGE Publications, Inc.,
2018
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Table of Contents:
- About the author
- Introduction
- Critical research literacy
- Philosophical and theoretical aspects of research
- Research methodologies
- Conceptual frameworks, theories, and models
- Orienting and supportive elements of research
- Orienting and supportive secondary elements of a journal article
- Peer reviewed journals
- Research justifications, augmentation, and rationales
- Introduction and research questions
- Literature review
- Research design and research methods
- Overview of research design and methods
- Reporting qualitative research methods
- Reporting quantitative and mixed methods research
- Results and findings
- Statistical literacy and conventions
- Descriptive and inferential statistics
- Results and findings
- Discussion, conclusions, and recommendations
- Discussion
- Conclusions
- Recommendations
- Argumentative essays and theoretical papers
- Argumentative essays: position, discussion, and think piece papers
- Conceptual and theoretical articles
- Appendix
- References
- Index.
