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Welcome to the Research Methods and Statistics Research Guide

This research guide helps to locate information on social work research methods and finding statistics for your topic. Use the menu to explore and remember that your Harris librarians are available for additional help!

Getting Started

A good way to start your research is by locating resources that provide an overview of your topic, and give background information and identify potential keywords in your subject area. Encyclopedias, handbooks and subject specific dictionaries offer good places to start.

Conducting Ethical Research

Conducting Research through an Anti-Racism Lens - University of Minnesota Libraries

Ebooks

Research and the Social Work Picture by Ian Shaw
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781447338918
Publication Date: 2018-03-07
Why is social science research important for social work? This first book in the Research in Social Work series provides an accessible way to think about this question. Drawing on evidence from across Europe, Asia and the United States, it covers how research is conducted, used, and perceived. It questions how research can affect the reality of social work while at the same time providing the ground work for social workers to become more thoughtfully practical--and practically thoughtful.
Research Design; Quantitative, Qualitative, Mixed Methods, Arts-based, and Community-based Participatory Research Approaches by Patricia Leavy
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781462530038
Publication Date: 2017-04-12
Provides a step-by-step guide to using the five major approaches to research design: quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods, arts-based, and community-based participatory research. Chapters on each approach follow a unique format--they present a template for a research proposal and explain in detail how to conceptualize and fill in every section.
Selecting the Right Analyses for Your Data by W. Paul Vogt; Dianne C. Gardner; Lynne M. Haeffele; Elaine R. Vogt
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781462516032
Publication Date: 2014-07-02
Reviews the selection criteria for coding and analyzing any set of data--whether qualitative, quantitative, mixed, or visual. The authors systematically explain when to use verbal, numerical, graphic, or combined codes, and when to use qualitative, quantitative, graphic, or mixed-methods modes of analysis. The book shows how using the right analysis methods leads to more justifiable conclusions and more persuasive presentations of research results.
Social Work Research and Evaluation: Foundations of Evidence-based Practice by Richard M. Grinnell; Yvonne A. Unrau
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780190859039
Publication Date: 2018-04-11
Provides beginning graduate social work students with the basic methodological foundation they need in order to successfully complete more advanced research courses that focus on single-system designs or program evaluations. This Eleventh Edition features seven new chapters, alongside an updated and expanded companion website.
Social Work Research Skills by Jacqueline Corcoran; Mary Secret
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780199978694
Publication Date: 2012-08-17
A hands-on practical guide that shows students how to apply what they learn about research methods and analysis to the research projects that they develop in their internships, field placements or employment settings.

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Practice-Based Research in Social Work by Sarah-Jane Dodd; Irwin Epstein
Call Number: HV11.D633 2012
ISBN: 9780415565240
Publication Date: 2012-01-11
Explores practice-based research (PBR), using numerous practice examples to actively encourage and engage students and practitioners to embrace research as a meaningful support for their practice. This book discusses the evolution of PBR as a distinct social work research approach, describes its principles and methods and presents a range of exemplars illustrating the application of PBR within different practice methods in different practice settings.
Research and Statistics for Social Workers by Anna Faul; A. N. Verbist; Tom Lawson
Call Number: HV11.L294 2019
ISBN: 9781138191020
Publication Date: 2019-01-21
Brings research and statistics together, bridging the gap to practice by using real social work examples written specifically to ally student fears. This book covers conceptualization, ethics, cultural competence, design, qualitative research, individual and program evaluation as well as nonparametric and parametric statistical tests. The tests are explained narratively and mathematically as well as with a comprehensive step-by-step, fully illustrated SPSS computer analysis of social work data.
Social Work Evaluation by James R. Dudley
Call Number: HV41.D83 2014
ISBN: 9781935871408
Publication Date: 2013-07-17
Dudley's text is an introduction to both programme and practice evaluation for social workers. Using the logic model as a theoretical framework, Dudley has developed seven specific steps for conducting evaluations during the planning, implementation, and outcomes stages of programmes and practices. This new edition has added information about the role of evaluation in the implementation and generation of evidence-based practices, and the necessity of evaluation to ensure accountability to all stakeholders.
Understanding and Using Research in Social Work by Brian J. Taylor; Campbell Killick; Anne McGlade
Call Number: HV11.T29 2015
ISBN: 9781473908147
Publication Date: 2015-11-12
By using the examples drawn from evidence-based practice (e.g. what is known to work and what we know about social work processes), the authors deliver a text that will help support students to appraise and then integrate research into both their daily practice decisions and their assignments and assessments.