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Overview
Practicing Research: Discovering Evidence That Matters provides students, practitioners, and researchers with guidance on best practices. The book’s eight chapters correspond to the skills that research consumers need to discover evidence that matters. Author Arlene Fink pays special attention to facilitating student learning by offeringing over a hundred examples, exercises, tables, figures, and checklists, as well as an extensive glossary. All the examples are taken from existing research and programs and grounded in the practitioner’s reality.
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Intended Audience
This text is intended to be the core text or one of the primary texts for applied research courses at the graduate level in Education, Social Work, Public Administration and Policy, Evaluation, Health, Nursing, and Criminal Justice. Readers should have a passing familiarity with the idea of research, but no special research expertise is necessary.
Editorial Reviews
NACADA Journal
"Fink excels in [her] introduction to research design and includes a useful discussion on threats to internal and external validity, [...] a particular strength of the work. "— Jason P. BrowningNACADA Journal - Jason P. Browning
"Fink excels in [her] introduction to research design and includes a useful discussion on threats to internal and external validity, [...] a particular strength of the work."Product Details
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Meet the Author
Arlene Fink (Ph.D.) is Professor of Medicine and Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles and President of the Langley Research Institute. Her main interests include evaluation and survey research and the conduct of research literature reviews as well as the evaluation of their quality. Dr. Fink has conducted scores of evaluation studies in public health, medicine and education. She is on the faculty of UCLA’s Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and is a scientific and evaluation advisor to UCLA’s Gambling Studies and IMPACT (Improving Access, Counseling & Treatment for Californians with Prostate Cancer) programs. She consults nationally and internationally for agencies such as L’institut de Promotion del la Prévention Secondaire en Addictologie (IPPSA) Paris, France and Peninsula Health in Victoria, Australia. Professor Fink has taught and lectured extensively all over the world and is the author of over 130 peer-reviewed articles and 15 textbooks.
Table of Contents
Preface Figures Examples Chapter 1. The Evaluation Research and Evidence-Based Practice Partnership Chapter 2. The Research Consumer as Detective: Investigating Program and Bibliographic Data Bases Chapter 3: The Practical Research Consumer Chapter 4. The Designing Research Consumer Chapter 5. The Research Consumer Reviews the Measures Chapter 6. The Research Consumer Evaluates Measurement Reliability and Validity Chapter 7. Getting Closer: Grading the Literature and Evaluating the Strength of the Evidence Chapter 8. The Ethical Research Consumer Assesses Needs and Evaluates Improvement Identifying Needs, Preferences and Values Glossary Appendix References