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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. Conceptualization in qualitative research
16. Qualitative measurement and rigor
17. Qualitative data and sampling
18. Qualitative data collection
19. A survey of qualitative designs
20. Single-subjects design
Appendix
Glossary
CSWE EPAS Index
Attribution index
Appendix A: Student-to-student resources
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Appendix B: Faculty-to-faculty resources
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