Table of Contents

Series Foreword
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Choosing Your Research Question and Hypotheses
Chapter 3: Choosing Your Study’s Purpose
Chapter 4: Choosing Whether to Use a Qualitative, Quantitative, or Mixed-Methods Approach
Chapter 5: Understanding Terms for Quantitative Studies: Concepts, Constructs, and Variables
Chapter 6: Choosing Your Design
Chapter 7: Choosing Your Sample
Chapter 8: Planning Your Measurement Strategy for Collecting Data
Chapter 9: Establishing Validity for Quantitative Studies
Chapter 10: Establishing Validity for Qualitative Studies
Chapter 11: Conclusion
Index
About the Authors
About the Series Editor

 

About the Author

Jennifer Brown Urban, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Family Science and Human Development at Montclair State University, where she also directs the Research on Evaluation and Developmental Systems Science lab. She is trained as a developmental scientist with specific expertise in youth development and program evaluation. Her scholarship is encapsulated under the umbrella of systems science,
including both theoretical approaches and methodologies.

Bradley Matheus van Eeden-Moorefield, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Family Science and Human Development at Montclair State University and director of the PhD program. His research includes a strong social justice commitment to understanding and strengthening marginalized families, with his most recent work focused on stepfamilies headed by same-sex couples.

Reviews

“The chapters are organized around the choices students need to make, rather than the types of research and issues specific to each type—an important distinguishing feature that sets this book apart from other research methods text…. In the current environment of increasing interdisciplinarity, this text is very useful to students who find themselves coming to social science research from other disciplines, or to students in need of clear guidelines who do not have the time to complete another entire research methods course.” —Choice

The chapters are organized around the choices students need to make, rather than the types of research and issues specific to each type — an important distinguishing feature that sets this book apart from other research methods text…. In the current environment of increasing interdisciplinarity, this text is very useful to students who find themselves coming to social science research from other disciplines, or to students in need of clear guidelines who do not have the time to complete another entire research methods course.
*Choice*