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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 scientific literature reviews
5. Reading empirical studies
6. Writing your research question & literature review
7. Research ethics
8. Research paradigms
9. Conceptualization in quantitative research
10. Measurement in quantitative research
11. Connecting conceptualization and measurement
12. Sampling for generalizability
13. Survey design
14. Experimental design
15. Univariate analysis
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16. Bivariate analysis
17. Conceptualization in qualitative research
18. Qualitative measurement and rigor
19. Qualitative data and sampling
20. Qualitative data collection
21. A survey of qualitative designs
22. A survey of approaches to qualitative data analysis
23. Qualitative research dissemination
24. Single-subjects design
25. Evaluation research
26. Sharing and consuming research
Appendix
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CSWE EPAS Index
Attribution index
Appendix A: Student-to-student resources
Appendix B: Faculty-to-faculty resources
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