{"product_id":"selecting-research-methods-four-volume-set-sage-benchmarks-in-social-research-methods-1st-ed","title":"Selecting Research Methods (Four-Volume Set) (Sage Benchmarks in Social Research Methods) (1ST ed.)","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tW. Paul Vogt is Professor Emeritus of Research Methods and Evaluation at Illinois State University where he has won both teaching and research awards. His books include: Dictionary of Statistics and Methodology (3rd edition, Sage, 2005); Tolerance \u0026amp; Education: Learning to Live with Diversity and Difference (Sage, 1997); Education Programs for Improving Intergroup Relations (co-edited with Walter Stephan, Teachers College Press, 2004); Quantitative Research Methods for Professionals (Allyn \u0026amp; Bacon, 2006). His forthcoming books on themes related to Selecting Research Methods include: When to Use What: Guidelines for Choosing Research Methods in the Social Sciences (Guilford Press); SAGE Handbook on Methodological Innovation (co-edited with Malcolm Williams, Sage, U.K.); Designing Research: Planning Inquiry in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Sage, U.S.). \n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVOLUME 1: SELECTING DESIGNS FOR GATHERING EVIDENCE \n\u003cbr\u003e Epistemological Diversity and Education Research: Much ado about nothing much? \n\u003cbr\u003e The Poverty of Deductivism: A Constructive Realist Model Of Sociological Explanation - H. Siegel \n\u003cbr\u003e A Tale Of Two Cultures: Contrasting Quantitative And Qualitative Research - P.S. Gorski \n\u003cbr\u003e What Good is Polarizing Research into Qualitative and Quantitative? - J. Mahoney and G. Goertz \n\u003cbr\u003e Integrating Survey and Ethnographic Methods for Systematic Anomalous Case Analysis - K. Ercikan and W.M. Roth \n\u003cbr\u003e What Works and Why: Combining quantitative and qualitative approaches in large-scale evaluations - L.D. Pearce \n\u003cbr\u003e Fieldwork, Economic Theory, and Research on Institutions in Developing Countries - I. Plewis and P. Mason \n\u003cbr\u003e The Benefits of Being There: Evidence from the literature on work - C. Udry \n\u003cbr\u003e Mapping the Process: An exemplar of process and challenge in grounded theory analysis - D. Tope, L.J. Chamberlain, M. Crowley and R. Hodson \n\u003cbr\u003e Identity in Focus: The use of focus groups to study the construction of collective identity - B. Harry, K.M. Sturges and J.K. Klinger \n\u003cbr\u003e Rational Choice, Structural Context, and Increasing Returns: A strategy for analytic narrative in historical sociology - J. Munday \n\u003cbr\u003e The Growth and Development of Experimental Research in Political Science - N. Pedriana \n\u003cbr\u003e The Logic of The Survey Experiment Reexamined - J.N. Druckman, Donald P. Green, J.H. Kuklinski and A. Lupia \n\u003cbr\u003e The Role of Randomized Field Trials in Social Science Research - B.J. Gaines, J.H. Kuklinski, and P.J. Quirk \n\u003cbr\u003e Naturally Occurring Preferences and Exogenous Laboratory Experiments: A case study of risk aversion - R.A. Moffitt \n\u003cbr\u003e Understanding Interaction Models: Improving empirical analysis - G.W. Harrison, J.A. List and C. Towe \n\u003cbr\u003e A Potential Outcomes View of Value-Added Assessment in Education - T. Brambor, W.R. Clark and M. Golder \n\u003cbr\u003e What are Value-Added Models Estimating and what does this Imply for Statistical Practice? - D.B. Rubin, E.A. Stuart and E.L. Zanutto \n\u003cbr\u003eVOLUME 2: METHODS TO SAMPLE, RECRUIT, AND ASSIGN CASES - S.W. Raudenbush \n\u003cbr\u003e Recruitment for a Panel Study of Australian Retirees \n\u003cbr\u003e The Difficulty of Identifying Rare Samples to Study: The case of schools divided into schools within schools - Y. Wells, W. Petralia, D. Devaus and H. Kendig \n\u003cbr\u003e In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies - V.E. Lee, D.D. Ready and D.J. Johnson \n\u003cbr\u003e Population Estimation without Censuses or Surveys: A discussion of mark-recapture methods - J. Henrich, R. Boyd, S. Bowles, C. Camerer, E. Fehr, H. Gintis and R. Mcelreath \n\u003cbr\u003e A Different Kind of Snowball: Identifying Key Policymakers - M. Bloor \n\u003cbr\u003e Sampling and Estimation in Hidden Populations Using Respondent-Driven Sampling - K. Farquharson \n\u003cbr\u003e Sample Size: More than calculations - M.J. Salganik and D.D. Heckathorn \n\u003cbr\u003e Sample Size Planning for the Standardized Mean Difference: Accuracy in parameter estimation via narrow confidence intervals - R.A. Parker and N.G. Bergman \n\u003cbr\u003e Sufficient Sample Sizes for Multilevel Modeling - K. Kelley and J.R. Rausch \n\u003cbr\u003e Two-Step Hierarchical Estimation: Beyond regression analysis - C.J.M. Maas and J.J. Hox \n\u003cbr\u003e Nested Analysis as a Mixed-Method Strategy for Comparative Research - C.H. Achen \n\u003cbr\u003e When Can History Be Our Guide? The pitfalls of counterfactual inference - E.S. Lieberman \n\u003cbr\u003e The Possibility Principle: Choosing negative cases in comparative research - G. King and L. Zeng \n\u003cbr\u003e Use of Extreme Groups Approach: A critical reexamination and new recommendations - J. Mahoney and G. Goertz \n\u003cbr\u003e The Intervention Selection Bias: An underrecognized confound in intervention research - K.J. Preacher, R.C. Maccallum, D. Rucker and W.A. Nicewander \n\u003cbr\u003e Getting the Most from Archived Qualitative Data: Epistemological, practical, and professional obstacles - R.E. Larzelere, B.R. Kuhn and B. Johnson \n\u003cbr\u003e Whose Data are they Anyway? Practical, legal and ethical issues in archiving qualitative research data - N. Fielding \n\u003cbr\u003e Recording Technologies and the Interview in Sociology, 1920-2000 - O. Parry and N.S. Mauthner \n\u003cbr\u003e Toward An Open-Source Methodology: What we can learn from the blogosphere - R.M. Lee \n\u003cbr\u003e Does Mode Matter for Modeling Political Choice? Evidence from the 2005 british election study - M.M. Blumenthal \n\u003cbr\u003e Reaching Migrants in Survey Research: The use of global position system to reduce coverage bias in China - D. Sanders, H.D. Clarke, M.C. Stewart and P. Whitley \n\u003cbr\u003eVOLUME 3: METHODS FOR CODING \u0026amp; MEASURING DATA - P.E. Landry, and M. Shen \n\u003cbr\u003e Can there be Reliability without \"Reliability\"? \n\u003cbr\u003e The Meaning and Consequences of \"Reliability.\" - R.J. Mislevy \n\u003cbr\u003e My Current Thoughts on Coefficient Alpha and its Successor Procedures - P.A. Moss \n\u003cbr\u003e Reliability: Arguments for multiple perspectives and potential problems with generalization across studies - L.J. Cronbach \n\u003cbr\u003e Reliability: A Rasch Perspective - D.M. Dimitrov \n\u003cbr\u003e Instructional Program Coherence: What it is and why it should guide school improvement policy - R.E. Schumacker and E.V. Smith \n\u003cbr\u003e Measurement Validity: A shared standard for qualitative and quantitative research - F.M. Newman, B. Smith, E. Allensworth and A.S. Bryk \n\u003cbr\u003e What Good are Statistics that don′t Generalize? - R. Adcock and D. Collier \n\u003cbr\u003e Enhancing the Validity and Cross-Cultural Comparability of Measurement in Survey Research - D.W. Shaffer and R.C. Serlin \n\u003cbr\u003e Death by Survey: Estimating Adult mortality without selection bias from sibling survival data - G. King, C.J.L. Murray, J.A. Salomon and A. Tandon \n\u003cbr\u003e Ratings and Rankings: Reconsidering the structure of values and their measurement - E. Gakidou and G. King \n\u003cbr\u003e A Lot More To Do: The sensitivity of time-series cross-section analyses to simple alternative specifications - S. Ovadia \n\u003cbr\u003e Methods for Testing and Evaluating Survey Questions - S.E. Wilson and D.M. Butler \n\u003cbr\u003e Research Synthesis: The practice of cognitive interviewing - S. Presser, M.P. Couper, J.T. Lessler, E. Martin, J. Martin, J.M. Rothgeb and E. Singer \n\u003cbr\u003e Pretesting Experimental Instructions - P.C. Beatty and G.B. Willis \n\u003cbr\u003e Use of Exploratory Factor Analysis in Published Research: Common errors and some comment on improved practice - L.S. Rashotte, M. Webster and J.M. Whitmeyer \n\u003cbr\u003e Comparing Check-all and Forced-Choice Question Formats in Web Surveys - R.K. Henson and J.K. Roberts \n\u003cbr\u003e Helping Respondents Get it Right the First Time: The influence of words, symbols, and graphics in web surveys - J.D. Smyth, D.A. Dillman, L.M. Christian and M.J. Stern \n\u003cbr\u003e An Assessment of Alternative Measures of Time Use - L.M. Christian, D.A. Dillman and J.D. Smyth \n\u003cbr\u003e Event History Calendars and Question List Surveys: A direct comparison of interviewing methods - F.T. Juster, H. Ono and F.P. Stafford \n\u003cbr\u003eVOLUME 4: METHODS FOR ANALYSING AND REPORTING RESULTS - R.F. Belli, W.L. Shay and F.P. Stafford \n\u003cbr\u003e The Contribution of Computer Software to Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Data Analysis \n\u003cbr\u003e What do Economists Talk About? A linguistic analysis of published writing in economic journals - P. Bazeley \n\u003cbr\u003e Dimension Reduction of Word-Frequency Data as a Substitute for Intersubjective Content Analysis - N. Goldschmidt and B. Szmrecsanyi \n\u003cbr\u003e Extracting Policy Positions from Political Texts Using Words as Data - A.F. Simon and M. Xenos \n\u003cbr\u003e TCQA: A Technique For Adding Temporality to Qualitative Comparative Analysis - M. Laver, K. Benoit and J. Garry \n\u003cbr\u003e Reducing Complexity in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): Remote and proximate factors and the consolidation of democracy - N. Caren and A. Panofsky \n\u003cbr\u003e Fuzzy Sets and Social Research - C.O. Schneider and C. Wagemann \n\u003cbr\u003e Causal Complexity and Party Preference - C.C Ragin and P. Pennings \n\u003cbr\u003e Running a Best-Subsets Logistic Regression: An alternative to stepwise methods - G. Grendstad \n\u003cbr\u003e Introduction to the Special Issue on Model Selection - J.E. King \n\u003cbr\u003e Consider Propensity Scores to Compare Treatments - D.L. Weakliem \n\u003cbr\u003e Remarks on the Analysis of Causal Relationships in Population Research - L.M. Rudner and J. Peyton \n\u003cbr\u003e Statistical Inference and Patterns of Inequality in the Global North - R. Moffitt \n\u003cbr\u003e Generalization in Qualitative Research - T.P. Moran \n\u003cbr\u003e The Difference between ′Significant′ and ′Not Significant′ Is Not Itself Statistically Significant - G. Payne and M. Williams \n\u003cbr\u003e Replication with Attention to Numerical Accuracy - A. Gelman and H. Stern \n\u003cbr\u003e Diversity in Everyday Research Practice: The case of data editing - M. Altman and M.P. Mcdonald \n\u003cbr\u003e Why We Need a Structured Abstract in Education Research - E. Leahey, B. Entwisle and P. Einaudi \n\u003cbr\u003e Strengthening Structured Abstracts for Education Research: The need for claim-based structured abstracts - F. Mosteller, B. Nave and and E.J. Miech \n\u003cbr\u003e A History of Effect Size Indices - A.E. Kelly and R.K. Yin \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSelecting Research Methods \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eprovides advice from prominent social scientists concerning the most crucial steps for planning and undertaking meaningful research: selecting the methods to be used. Contributors to the collection address methodological choices in four stages: design, sampling, coding and measurement, and analysis. The four volumes provide an integrated approach to methodological choice in two ways. First, the contributions range from the early decisions about design options through the concluding choices about analyzing, interpreting, and presenting results. Second, the collection is integrated because it addresses the needs of projects that collect qualitative evidence, quantitative data, or both.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVolume 1 concerns design choice; the articles focus on selecting designs that are effective for answering research questions and achieving the goals of the researcher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVolume 2 is on sampling and includes, in addition to sampling from populations, advice on choosing methods for recruiting informants for interviews, selecting sites for participant observation, and assigning subjects to control and experimental groups.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVolume 3 reviews options for coding and measurement; it emphasizes methodological choices that enable researchers to study concepts in ways that enhance the reliability and validity of the research.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVolume 4 reviews the range of choices available among methods to analyze results and interpret the meanings of evidence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eVogt\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eW. Paul Vogt\u003c\/b\u003e is Emeritus Professor of Research Methods and Evaluation at Illinois State University where he won both teaching and research awards. He specializes in methodological choice and program evaluation and is particularly interested in ways to integrate multiple methods. His other books include: \u003ci\u003eTolerance \u0026amp; Education: Learning to Live with Diversity and Difference\u003c\/i\u003e (Sage Publications, 1998); \u003ci\u003eQuantitative Research Methods for Professionals\u003c\/i\u003e (Allyn \u0026amp; Bacon, 2007); \u003ci\u003eEducation Programs for Improving Intergroup Relations\u003c\/i\u003e (coedited with Walter Stephan, Teachers College Press, 2004). He is also editor of four 4-volume sets in the series, Sage Benchmarks in Social Research Methods: \u003ci\u003eSelecting Research Methods \u003c\/i\u003e(2008); \u003ci\u003eData Collection \u003c\/i\u003e(2010); \u003ci\u003eQuantitative Research Methods \u003c\/i\u003e(2011); and, with Burke Johnson, \u003cem\u003eCorrelation and Regression Analysis\u003c\/em\u003e (2012).His most recent publications include the coauthored \u003cem\u003eWhen to Use What Research Design\u003c\/em\u003e (2012) and \u003cem\u003eSelecting the Right Analyses for Your Data: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches\u003c\/em\u003e (2014).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"Sage Publications Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51502558511382,"sku":"9781847871800","price":1568.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9781847871800.jpg?v=1783310328","url":"https:\/\/lusper.myshopify.com\/products\/selecting-research-methods-four-volume-set-sage-benchmarks-in-social-research-methods-1st-ed","provider":"Lusperbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}