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Dedication
Preface: Social workers' roles in science and research
1. Science and social work
2. Starting your research project
3. Searching the literature
4. Reading literature reviews
5. Reading empirical studies
6. Writing your literature review
7. Research ethics
8. Conceptualization in quantitative research
9. Measurement in quantitative research
10. Connecting conceptualization and measurement
11. Sampling for generalizability
12. Survey design
13. Experimental design
14. Evaluation research
15. Sharing and consuming research
16. Conceptualization in qualitative research
17. Qualitative measurement and rigor
18. Qualitative data and sampling
19. Qualitative data collection
20. A survey of qualitative designs
21. ## Unobstrusive research
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22. 9. Writing your research question
23. 15. Bivariate analysis
24. 16. Reporting quantitative results
25. 19. A survey of approaches to qualitative data analysis
26. 21. Qualitative research dissemination
27. 14. Univariate analysis
28. 8. Reasoning and causality
29. 7. Theory and paradigm
30. Scope: Knowing What is Available
31. __UNKNOWN__
32. Plan: Developing Research Strategies
33. Science Literacy: Information Literacy in the Sciences
34. Gather: Finding What You Need
Appendix
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Scientific Inquiry in Social Work (2nd Edition) Copyright © 2020 by Matthew DeCarlo, Cory Cummings, and Kate Agnelli is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.