TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robson,Colin
TI  - Real world research: a resource for social scientists and practitioner-researchers 
SN  - 0631176888 (alk. paper)
AV  - H62.R627 1993 
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Oxford, UK, Cambridge, Mass., USA
PB  - Blackwell
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Research
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Psychology
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [479]-501) and index; CONTENTS
PART I: BEFORE YOU START
1. Real world enquiry --
2. Developing a proposal --
PART II: DESIGNING THE ENQUIRY
3. General design issues --
4. Experimental design outside the laboratory --
5. Designing small surveys --
6. Designing case studies --
7. Designing evaluations --
PART III: TACTICS - THE METHODS OF DATA COLLECTION
8. Observational methods -- 
9. Interviews and questionnaires --
10. Unobtrusive measures and other approaches --
PART IV: DEALING WITH THE DATA
11.  The analysis of quantitative data --
12. The analysis of qualitative data --
PART V: MAKING AN IMPACT
13. Reporting on the enquiry --
14. Intervention and change --
15. Researchers and practitioners
N2  - Advises on the carrying out of real world research, where graduates in psychology and related social or behavioural sciences are required to perform enquiry tasks outside the laboratory. The book describes systematic procedures appropriate to the tasks
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