Sage Publications Inc imprint: 1562 books
Striking the Balance
Debating Criminal Justice and Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2016
Award-winning professor and author Matthew Lippman enhances teaching and learning with his newest text, Striking the Balance: Debating Criminal Justice and Law.Organizing the book around clashing points of view on contemporary issues in criminal justice and criminal law, Lippman puts each debate into...
Criminal Justice Ethics
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
Criminal Justice Ethics examines the criminal justice system through an ethical lens by identifying ethical issues in practice and theory, exploring ethical dilemmas, and offering suggestions for resolving ethical issues and dilemmas faced by criminal justice professionals. Bestselling author Cyndi...
Excellence in Online Journalism
Exploring Current Practices in an Evolving Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Like the technologies that support it, the craft of online journalism is evolving quickly. This timely book helps students develop standards of excellence, through interviews with more than 30 writers, editors and producers, and dozens of examples of strong work. The author provides a framework of...
Appreciative Inquiry
Research for Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Appreciative Inquiry: Research for Change is the first book to explore in depth the issues that arise when appreciative inquiry is used as a research framework, rather than an organizational development tool. Author Jan Reed draws upon her own experience of using Appreciative Inquiry (AI) as a research...
Proposals That Work
A Guide for Planning Dissertations and Grant Proposals
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Previous editions of this book have helped well over 100,000 students and professionals write effective proposals for dissertations and grants. Covering all aspects of the proposal process, from the most basic questions about form and style to the task of seeking funding, Locke/Spirduso/Silverman’s Proposals...
by Harry F. Wolcott
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Writing Up Qualitative Research, Third Edition offers time-tested suggestions on every aspect of the process from beginning to end. In this new edition, author Harry Wolcott continues to focus on the "writing side" of qualitative research, while incorporating new features such as guidelines...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 1999
This completely revised and greatly expanded edition of Doing Qualitative Research spans the spectrum of primary care research, illustrating when methods are appropriate and how to use them**.** New to this edition are additional collection methods, a new section on analysis and interpretation, more...
Cognitive Interviewing
A Tool for Improving Questionnaire Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2004
The design and evaluation of questionnaires—and of other written and oral materials—is a challenging endeavor, fraught with potential pitfalls. Cognitive Interviewing: A Tool for Improving Questionnaire Design describes a means of systematically developing survey questions through investigations...
Evaluation Fundamentals
Insights into Program Effectiveness, Quality, and Value
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
The Third Edition of Arlene Fink’s Evaluation Fundamentals teaches the basic concepts and vocabulary necessary to do program evaluations and review the quality of evaluation research to make informed decisions about methods and outcomes to meet scientific and community needs. Dr. Fink thoroughly...
by Jaber F. Gubrium, Dr. James A. Holstein
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2008
Analyzing Narrative Reality offers a comprehensive framework for analyzing the construction and use of stories in society. This centers on the interplay of narrative work and narrative environments, viewed as reflexively related. Topics dealing with narrative work include activation, linkage, composition,...
by Paul C. Rosenblatt
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Written for researchers and graduate students writing dissertations, Restarting Stalled Research is a unique book that offers detailed advice and perspective on many issues that can stall a research project and reveals what can be done to successfully resume it. Using a direct yet conversational style,...
Writing Strategies
Reaching Diverse Audiences
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1990
Richardson uses her own experience to explore strategies for writing up the same research in different ways. By showing the reader the stylistic and intellectual imperatives and conventions of different writing media, she prepares the writer for approaching and successfully addressing diverse audiences....
Economic Evaluation in Education
Cost-Effectiveness and Benefit-Cost Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
The past decade has seen increased attention to cost-effectiveness and benefit-cost analysis in education as administrators are being asked to accomplish more with the same or even fewer resources, philanthropists are keen to calculate their “return on investment” in social programs, and the general...
Generalizability Theory
A Primer
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 1991
In this volume, Shavelson and Webb offer an intuitive development of generalizability theory and cover a wide variety of topics such as generalizability studies with nested facets and with fixed facets, measurement error and generalizability coefficients, and decision studies with same and with different...