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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David E McNabb |
| ISBN: | 9780765617675 0765617676 |
| OCLC Number: | 138341360 |
| Description: | xxx, 458 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Contents: | List of tables, figures, and boxes -- Preface to the second edition -- Introduction -- Research fundamentals -- Introduction to research methods -- Research ethics: doing the right thing -- The building blocks of research -- Public administration research: theory and practice -- Research in nonprofit organizations -- Understanding the research process -- The eight steps of the research process -- Selecting a research topic -- Choosing a research design -- Putting together a research proposal -- Quantitative research strategies -- Fundamentals of quantitative research -- Introduction to sampling -- Writing questions and developing questionnaires -- Quantitative research methods -- Summarizing data with descriptive statistics -- Using tables, charts, and graphs -- Research hypotheses -- Testing hypotheses about two or more groups -- Testing relationships with correlation and regression -- Experiments and experimental design -- Nonparametric statistics -- Exploring multivariate statistics -- Conducting statistical tests with SPSS -- Qualitative research strategies and methods -- Introduction to qualitative research -- Research using the case study approach -- Research using the grounded theory approach -- Research using the ethnographic approach -- Critical research: action research approaches -- Critical research: empowerment and feminist models -- Analysis and interpretation of qualitative data -- Analyzing qualitative data -- Analyzing texts, documents, and artifacts -- Preparing the research report -- Writing the research report -- References -- Author index -- Subject index -- About the author. |
| Responsibility: | David E. McNabb. |
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