Download or read book A Playbook for Research Methods written by Patricia M. Shields and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Military Studies written by Joseph Soeters and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers an overview of the methodologies of research in the field of military studies. As an institution relying on individuals and resources provided by society, the military has been studied by scholars from a wide range of disciplines: political science, sociology, history, psychology, anthropology, economics and administrative studies. The methodological approaches in these disciplines vary from computational modelling of conflicts and surveys of military performance, to the qualitative study of military stories from the battlefield and veterans experiences. Rapidly developing technological facilities (more powerful hardware, more sophisticated software, digitalization of documents and pictures) render the methodologies in use more dynamic than ever. The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Military Studies offers a comprehensive and dynamic overview of these developments as they emerge in the many approaches to military studies. The chapters in this Handbook are divided over four parts: starting research, qualitative methods, quantitative methods, and finalizing a study, and every chapter starts with the description of a well-published study illustrating the methodological issues that will be dealt with in that particular chapter. Hence, this Handbook not only provides methodological know-how, but also offers a useful overview of military studies from a variety of research perspectives. This Handbook will be of much interest to students of military studies, security and war studies, civil-military relations, military sociology, political science and research methods in general.
Download or read book A Concise Introduction to Mixed Methods Research written by John W. Creswell and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For students and researchers new to mixed methods, A Concise Introduction to Mixed Methods Research 2e by renowned author John W. Creswell provides a brief and practical introduction to mixed methods. Many graduate students and researchers in the social, behavioral and health sciences may not have the time or resources to read long treatises or stacks of journal articles on mixed methods research. This text quickly describes the basics of setting up and conducting a study using this methodology. Chapters are short and follow the process of research, from ensuring skills for conducting research, acknowledging the steps in planning a study, designing studies with increasing complexity, planning sampling strategies and integration, and writing up the results of your study. Get started in mixed methods quickly with this brief primer.
Download or read book Research Methods in Psychology written by Paul G. Nestor and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2011-02-18 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key Features --
Download or read book Research Methods for Public Administrators written by Gail Johnson and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As in previous editions, this highly practical book is written with beginning MPA students and practitioners in mind. It focuses on the interpretation and use of research findings, not just number crunching. It covers the entire research process, from initial questions to final report, in clear, jargon-free language, and includes numerous easy-to-understand examples and exercises that provide opportunities for concrete applications of the concepts. It is solidly grounded in public administration and recognizes both the promise and limitations of research within a political environment. Key features of the book: --It is highly practical and written to accommodate a mix of readers: those who want to become analysts, managers who will oversee research contracts, and citizens who need to know whether to believe the facts and data they read in today's news; --It minimizes the use of jargon and explains difficult concepts in clear language. Plentiful end-of-chapter exercises provide opportunities for concrete application of the concepts; --Key points are highlighted as "takeaway lessons" so readers are reminded about what really matters. The tough questions to ask are suggested in every chapter; --Examples and applications are used throughout the book to illustrate concepts and add topical interest; --It covers the entire research process, from initial questions to the final report. This book demystifies and makes practical the research every public administrator and policy analyst needs to do the job well. Online instructor's materials, including a Test Bank, PowerPoint slides, and a Survey and Documental Analysis (SDA) guide, are also available to adopters.
Download or read book Scaling Impact written by Robert McLean and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scaling Impact introduces a new and practical approach to scaling the positive impacts of research and innovation. Inspired by leading scientific and entrepreneurial innovators from across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East, this book presents a synthesis of unrivalled diversity and grounded ingenuity. The result is a different perspective on how to achieve impact that matters, and an important challenge to the predominant more-is-better paradigm of scaling. For organisations and individuals working to change the world for the better, scaling impact is a common goal and a well-founded aim. The world is changing rapidly, and seemingly intractable problems like environmental degradation or accelerating inequality press us to do better for each other and our environment as a global community. Challenges like these appear to demand a significant scale of action, and here the authors argue that a more creative and critical approach to scaling is both possible and essential. To encourage uptake and co-development, the authors present actionable principles that can help organisations and innovators design, manage, and evaluate scaling strategies. Scaling Impact is essential reading for development and innovation practitioners and professionals, but also for researchers, students, evaluators, and policymakers with a desire to spark meaningful change.
Download or read book Games User Research written by Anders Drachen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Games live and die commercially on the player experience. Games User Research is collectively the way we optimise the quality of the user experience (UX) in games, working with all aspects of a game from the mechanics and interface, visuals and art, interaction and progression, making sure every element works in concert and supports the game UX. This means that Games User Research is essential and integral to the production of games and to shape the experience of players. Today, Games User Research stands as the primary pathway to understanding players and how to design, build, and launch games that provide the right game UX. Until now, the knowledge in Games User Research and Game UX has been fragmented and there were no comprehensive, authoritative resources available. This book bridges the current gap of knowledge in Games User Research, building the go-to resource for everyone working with players and games or other interactive entertainment products. It is accessible to those new to Games User Research, while being deeply comprehensive and insightful for even hardened veterans of the game industry. In this book, dozens of veterans share their wisdom and best practices on how to plan user research, obtain the actionable insights from users, conduct user-centred testing, which methods to use when, how platforms influence user research practices, and much, much more.
Download or read book The Survey Playbook written by Matthew V. Champagne, Ph.d. and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are surveys annoying, badly written, and provide ambiguous results? Because they ignore the 9 Principles of psychology! The Survey Playbook is a how-to guide for those who want to create a successful survey and an entertaining explanation of bad survey practices for those who fill out surveys. If you are responsible for creating surveys for customers, students, members, or employees, or you are simply interested in why surveys are so annoying and poorly-written, read on! The Survey Playbook answers these questions: How do we increase our response rates? Are we asking the "right" questions? Is our survey too long? What are the best incentives? Why are our survey results ambiguous? Why don't our customers provide useful comments? People have survey fatigue - what options do we have? This book is written for: Those who create surveys for customers, students, members, employees, alumni, or prospects Do-it-yourself'ers who use SurveyMonkey or other web-based survey tools Evaluation Committee members responsible for improving their course evaluation forms Tradeshow organizers who gather feedback from exhibitors and attendees College Administrators who interpret and act on faculty evaluation results Customer Retention Specialist or others dedicated to engaging and keeping customers Directors of Training responsible for instructor evaluations Marketing Researchers who have heard conflicting messages about the usefulness of surveys Those using web-based or paper-based surveys for accreditation and evaluation purposes Those who get annoyed when wasting their time filling out poorly constructed surveys WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY: "I teach research methods and applied measurement and have developed survey instruments for many organizations. I am impressed at the quality and accuracy of the advice and instruction given in The Survey Playbook. A similar course at my university would cost you $900 and take 15 weeks to complete. I enthusiastically recommend this volume and plan to start using this book in my courses." - Jeffrey Nicholas, Ph.D. "There are ridiculously expensive workshops that are far less informative and useful than this easy-to-read gem." - Stephen Schepman, MBA, Ph.D."
Download or read book How Learning Works written by John Almarode and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2021-07-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translate the science of learning into strategies for maximum learning impact in your classroom. The content, skills, and understandings students need to learn today are as diverse, complex, and multidimensional as the students in our classrooms. How can educators best create the learning experiences students need to truly learn? How Learning Works: A Playbook unpacks the science of how students learn and translates that knowledge into promising principles or practices that can be implemented in the classroom or utilized by students on their own learning journey. Designed to help educators create learning experiences that better align with how learning works, each module in this playbook is grounded in research and features prompts, tools, practice exercises, and discussion strategies that help teachers to Describe what is meant by learning in the local context of your classroom, including identifying any barriers to learning. Adapt promising principles and practices to meet the specific needs of your students—particularly regarding motivation, attention, encoding, retrieval and practice, cognitive load and memory, productive struggle, and feedback. Translate research on learning into learning strategies that accelerate learning and build students’ capacity to take ownership of their own learning—such as summarizing, spaced practice, interleaved practice, elaborate interrogation, and transfer strategies. Generate and gather evidence of impact by engaging students in reciprocal teaching and effective feedback on learning. Rich with resources that support the process of parlaying scientific findings into classroom practice, this playbook offers all the moves teachers need to design learning experiences that work for all students!
Download or read book Determining Sample Size and Power in Research Studies written by J. P. Verma and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses sample size and power in the context of research, offering valuable insights for graduate and doctoral students as well as researchers in any discipline where data is generated to investigate research questions. It explains how to enhance the authenticity of research by estimating the sample size and reporting the power of the tests used. Further, it discusses the issue of sample size determination in survey studies as well as in hypothesis testing experiments so that readers can grasp the concept of statistical errors, minimum detectable difference, effect size, one-tail and two-tail tests and the power of the test. The book also highlights the importance of fixing these boundary conditions in enhancing the authenticity of research findings and improving the chances of research papers being accepted by respected journals. Further, it explores the significance of sample size by showing the power achieved in selected doctoral studies. Procedure has been discussed to fix power in the hypothesis testing experiment. One should usually have power at least 0.8 in the study because having power less than this will have the issue of practical significance of findings. If the power in any study is less than 0.5 then it would be better to test the hypothesis by tossing a coin instead of organizing the experiment. It also discusses determining sample size and power using the freeware G*Power software, based on twenty-one examples using different analyses, like t-test, parametric and non-parametric correlations, multivariate regression, logistic regression, independent and repeated measures ANOVA, mixed design, MANOVA and chi-square.
Download or read book The Jobs To Be Done Playbook written by Jim Kalbach and published by Rosenfeld Media. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These days, consumers have real power: they can research companies, compare ratings, and find alternatives with a simple tap. Focusing on customer needs isn't a nice–to–have, it's a strategic imperative. The Jobs To Be Done Playbook (JTBD) helps organizations turn market insight into action. This book shows you techniques to make offerings people want, as well as make people want your offering.
Download or read book Looking to methods and tools for the Research in Design and Architectural Technology written by Filippo Bosi and published by Firenze University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume presents the research experience of young researchers and PhD candidates, dealing with the Italian scientific area 08-C1 (Design and Technology of Architecture), with a discussion about scientific issues and methodologies applied. The aim is to express the methodological and investigation features of the issues faced by the researchers, along with the effectiveness of their researches design, giving the reader an immediate overview of the 08-C1 doctoral experience. Beside young researchers statements as witnesses of this research path, the volume collects professors critical contribution, to enrich the comprehensive picture of the progression and methodologies of the doctoral researches presented.
Download or read book Understanding and Evaluating Research written by Sue L. T. McGregor and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding and Evaluating Research: A Critical Guide shows students how to be critical consumers of research and to appreciate the power of methodology as it shapes the research question, the use of theory in the study, the methods used, and how the outcomes are reported. The book starts with what it means to be a critical and uncritical reader of research, followed by a detailed chapter on methodology, and then proceeds to a discussion of each component of a research article as it is informed by the methodology. The book encourages readers to select an article from their discipline, learning along the way how to assess each component of the article and come to a judgment of its rigor or quality as a scholarly report.
Download or read book The Success Criteria Playbook written by John Almarode and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2021-02-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provide students a clear view of what success looks like for any process, task, or product. What does success look like for your students? How will they know if they have learned? This essential component of teaching and learning can be difficult to articulate but is vital to achievement for both teachers and students. The Success Criteria Playbook catapults teachers beyond learning intentions to define clearly what success looks like for every student—whether face-to-face or in a remote learning environment. Designed to be used collaboratively in grade-level, subject area teams—or even on your own—the step-by-step playbook expands teacher understanding of how success criteria can be utilized to maximize student learning and better engage learners in monitoring and evaluating their own progress. Each module is designed to support the creation and immediate implementation of high-quality, high impact success criteria and includes: • Templates that allow for guided and independent study for teachers. • Extensive STEM-focused examples from across the K-12 STEM curriculum to guide teacher learning and practice. • Examples of success criteria applied across learning domains and grades, including high school content, skills, practices, dispositions, and understandings. Ensure equity of access to learning and opportunity for all students by designing and employing high-quality, high-impact success criteria that connect learners to a shared understanding of what success looks like for any given learning intention.
Download or read book The Customer Driven Playbook written by Travis Lowdermilk and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the wide acceptance of Lean approaches and customer-development strategies, many product teams still have difficulty putting these principles into meaningful action. That’s where The Customer-Driven Playbook comes in. This practical guide provides a complete end-to-end process that will help you understand customers, identify their problems, conceptualize new ideas, and create fantastic products they’ll love. To build successful products, you need to continually test your assumptions about your customers and the products you build. This book shows team leads, researchers, designers, and managers how to use the Hypothesis Progression Framework (HPF) to formulate, experiment with, and make sense of critical customer and product assumptions at every stage. With helpful tips, real-world examples, and complete guides, you’ll quickly learn how to turn Lean theory into action. Collect and formulate your assumptions into hypotheses that can be tested to unlock meaningful insights Conduct experiments to create a continual cadence of learning Derive patterns and meaning from the feedback you’ve collected from customers Improve your confidence when making strategic business and product decisions Track the progression of your assumptions, hypotheses, early ideas, concepts, and product features with step-by-step playbooks Improve customer satisfaction by creating a consistent feedback loop
Download or read book A Socio Legal Research Citation Methods written by Dr. Sanjay J. Ambekar and published by EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHERS & DISTRIBUTORS. This book was released on 2020-08-23 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, all primary research scope and dimensions are considered, which will help the researcher have a self-evaluation of the work he/she is carrying out. This book focuses on each possible way of research steps – beginning from problem identification to report generation. This book has eight chapters. Chapter I deal with Research Methodology: An Introduction it has included especially the values and ethics in social research through it the students and the researcher would get knowledge about the ethical manners of research. Chapter II deals with Research Methods under it exclusively focus on the utility of socio-legal research and the relevance of empirical research. Chapter III deals with the Identification of Research Problem; it has covered criteria of research problem, evaluation of research problem, survey of available literature, and bibliography research through point researcher can understand how literature review helpful in accomplishing the research work? Purpose of the literature review, what types of legislative material can refer by the researcher? How is the juristic writing vital in the socio-legal research? Chapter IV deals with the Hypothesis. Chapter V deals with the Preparation of the research design under this chapter. I have tried to discuss devising tools and techniques for collecting data with the help of juristic literature, the use of historical and comparative research materials, observation studies, and questionnaires, jurimetrics, computerized research, etc. Chapter VI deals with the classification and tabulation of data. Chapter VII deals with Report writing. Chapter VIII deals with Legal citation methods; it is the exclusive chapter in this book because there is no need for the researcher to refer another text for Standard Indian legal citation style. It is well-organized book deals with a variety of research methods used in legal and social sciences. A Handbook of "A Socio-legal research & citation methods" is recommended for researchers and useful during Ph. D Course Work.
Download or read book Building Design Strategy written by Thomas Lockwood and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can design be used to solve business problems? That's the question answered, in many innovative ways, by Building Design Strategy. Mark Dziersk, EunSool Kwon, Arnold Levin, Laura Weiss, and many more top-name contributors share their experience and insights. Topics explore the full range of issues today, including thinking ahead; adapting to challenges; developing tangible strategies; using design to convey ideas; choosing worthwhile projects to help growth; using design to create fiercely loyal customers.
