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Cet ouvrage rassemble une sélection de contributions issues du premier séminaire international consacré aux méthodes de recherche dans le domaine des didactiques, organisé par les laboratoires DIDIREM et THEODILE et par l'IUFM du Nord/Pas-de-Calais. Leurs auteurs, appartenant à plusieurs pays différents, représentent diverses didactiques : disciplines scientifiques et techniques, français, histoire, mathématiques, STAPS... Ces contributions sont regroupées autour de trois axes de questionnement : celui des intérêts et des problèmes liés aux comparaisons et aux croisements des méthodes de recueil et de traitement des données ; celui de la détermination des indicateurs pertinents et des significations qu'on peut leur accorder ; celui des modalités possibles des techniques de retraitement des données, tels que scripts, chronologies ou synopsis. L'ensemble de ces textes est présenté par Marie-Jeanne Perrin-Glorian et Yves Reuter, ce dernier proposant dans la contribution inaugurale un programme de recherches possibles pour définir et questionner les méthodes de recherche en didactiques, pour justifier aussi les intérêts d'un tel chantier de travail. En effet, en raison des enjeux épistémologiques attachés aux problèmes abordés, qu'ils concernent la définition même des didactiques en tant que disciplines de recherche ou la validité des résultats produits, le séminaire mis en place est appelé à se reproduire régulièrement. Cet ouvrage constitue, en conséquence, le premier d'une série à venir.

« Nous vivons encore aujourd’hui en France avec cette idée, de moins en moins justifiée et de plus en plus arrogante, que notre capacité d’innovation, en raison de l’excellence de nos enseignants, de nos chercheurs et de nos ingénieurs, et de la qualité de nos infrastructures, serait bien supérieure à celle des pays du Sud et de l’Est. Souvenez-vous de la suffisance avec laquelle, au moment de la première crise pétrolière, nous déclarions : “Nous n’avons pas de pétrole mais nous avons des idées.” Il faut se rendre à l’évidence : nous n’avons toujours pas de pétrole, mais nous ne sommes plus seuls à avoir des idées et des capacités à les exploiter sous la forme d’applications concrètes au bénéfice du développement économique et social. Voilà la nouveauté. Il s’agit d’un changement radical et irréversible auquel nous devrons nous adapter. » (Marc Fontecave) La mondialisation soulève pour l’avenir de la recherche fondamentale tout un ensemble de questions organisationnelles, économiques, politiques, culturelles, éthiques qui sont déterminantes. Ce sont ces questions que le colloque de rentrée 2010 du Collège de France, La mondialisation de la recherche. Compétition, coopérations, restructurations (14 & 15 octobre 2010), a eu pour ambition d’affronter.

• TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION
• 01. A/B Testing
• 02. AEIOU
• 03. Affinity Diagramming
• 04. Artifact Analysis
• 05. Automated Remote Research
• 06. Behavioral Mapping
• 07. Bodystorming
• 08. Brainstorm Graphic Organizers
• 09. Business Origami
• 10. Card Sorting
• 11. Case Studies
• 12. Cognitive Mapping
• 13. Cognitive Walkthrough
• 14. Collage
• 15. Competitive Testing
• 16. Concept Mapping
• 17. Content Analysis
• 18. Content Inventory & Audit
• 19. Contextual Design
• 20. Contextual Inquiry
• 21. Creative Toolkits
• 22. Critical Incident Technique
• 23. Crowdsourcing
• 24. Cultural Probes
• 25. Customer Experience Audit
• 26. Design Charette
• 27. Design Ethnography
• 28. Design Workshops
• 29. Desirability Testing
• 30. Diary Studies
• 31. Directed Storytelling
• 32. Elito Method
• 33. Ergonomic Analysis
• 34. Evaluative Research
• 35. Evidence-based Design
• 36. Experience Prototyping
• 37. Experience Sampling Method
• 38. Experiments
• 39. Exploratory Research
• 40. Eyetracking
• 41. Flexible Modeling
• 42. Fly-on-the-Wall Observation
• 43. Focus Groups
• 44. Generative Research
• 45. Graffiti Walls
• 46. Heuristic Evaluation
• 47. Image Boards
• 48. Interviews
• 49. KJ Technique
• 50. Kano Analysis
• 51. Key Performance Indicators
• 52. Laddering
• 53. Literature Reviews
• 54. The Love Letter & the Breakup Letter
• 55. Mental Model Diagrams
• 56. Mind Mapping
• 57. Observation
• 58. Parallel Prototyping
• 59. Participant Observation
• 60. Participatory Action Research (PAR)
• 61. Participatory Design
• 62. Personal Inventories
• 63. Personas
• 64. Photo Studies
• 65. Picture Cards
• 66. Prototyping
• 67. Questionnaires
• 68. Rapid Iterative Testing & Evaluation (RITE)
• 69. Remote Moderated Research
• 70. Research Through Design
• 71. Role-playing
• 72. Scenario Description Swimlanes
• 73. Scenarios
• 74. Secondary Research
• 75. Semantic Differential
• 76. Shadowing
• 77. Simulation Exercises
• 78. Site Search Analytics
• 79. Speed Dating
• 80. Stakeholder Maps
• 81. Stakeholder Walkthrough
• 82. Storyboards
• 83. Surveys
• 84. Task Analysis
• 85. Territory Maps
• 86. Thematic Networks
• 87. Think-aloud Protocol
• 88. Time-aware Research
• 89. Touchstone Tours
• 90. Triading
• 91. Triangulation
• 92. Unobtrusive Measures
• 93. Usability Report
• 94. Usability Testing
• 95. User Journey Maps
• 96. Value Opportunity Analysis
• 97. Web Analytics
• 98. Weighted Matrix
• 99. Wizard of Oz
• 100. Word Clouds ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHORS.
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This handy, portable version of the authoritative Universal Methods of Design provides the same thorough and critical presentation, updated and expanded to include 125 research methods, synthesis/analysis techniques, and research deliverables for human-centered design. Each method of research is distilled down to its most powerful essence, in a format that will help individual practitioners as well as design teams select and implement the research methods best suited to their design culture within the constraints of their projects. This valuable guide: Dismantles the myth that user research methods are complicated, expensive, and time-consuming Creates a shared meaning for cross-disciplinary design teams Illustrates methods with compelling visualizations and case studies Characterizes each method at a glance With the concise, accessible format of The Pocket Universal Methods of Design, you and your team will be designing in a completely new, more effective way. The titles in the Rockport Universal series offer comprehensive and authoritative information and edifying and inspiring visual examples on multidisciplinary subjects for designers, architects, engineers, students, and anyone who is interested in expanding and enriching their design knowledge.
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• 1. On Complete Evaluation Systems.-
• 2. Extrinsic Factors Affecting Citation Frequencies of Research Articles.-
• 3. Remarks on Dynamics of Research Production of Researchers and Research Organizations.-
• 4. Does Publicity in the Science Press Drive Citations? A Vindication of Peer Review.-
• 5. Ranking Papers by Expected Short-Term Impact.-
• 6. Properties of an Indicator of Citation Durability of Research Articles.-
• 7. Wider, or Deeper! On Predicting Future of Scientific Articles by Influence Dispersion Tree.-
• 8. Can Author Collaboration Reveal Impact? The Case of h-index.-
• 9. Identification of Promising Researchers through Fast-and-frugal Heuristics.-
• 10. Scientific Impact Vitality: The Citation Currency Ratio and Citation Currency Exergy Indicators.-
• 11. Detection, Analysis, and Prediction of Research Topics with Scientific Knowledge Graphs.-
• 12. Early Detection of Emerging Technologies using Temporal Features.-
• 13. Link Prediction in Bibliographic Networks.
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This book provides its readers with an introduction to interesting prediction and science dynamics problems in the field of Science of Science. Prediction focuses on the forecasting of future performance (or impact) of an entity, either a research article or a scientist, and also the prediction of future links in collaboration networks or identifying missing links in citation networks. The single chapters are written in a way that help the reader gain a detailed technical understanding of the corresponding subjects, the strength and weaknesses of the state-of-the-art approaches for each described problem, and the currently open challenges. While chapter 1 provides a useful contribution in the theoretical foundations of the fields of scientometrics and science of science, chapters 2-4 turn the focal point to the study of factors that affect research impact and its dynamics. Chapters 5-7 then focus on article-level measures that quantify the current and future impact of scientific articles. Next, chapters 8-10 investigate subjects relevant to predicting the future impact of individual researchers. Finally, chapters 11-13 focus on science evolution and dynamics, leveraging heterogeneous and interconnected data, where the analysis of research topic trends and their evolution has always played a key role in impact prediction approaches and quantitative analyses in the field of bibliometrics. Each chapter can be read independently, since it includes a detailed description of the problem being investigated along with a thorough discussion and study of the respective state-of-the-art. Due to the cross-disciplinary character of the Science of Science field, the book may be useful to interested readers from a variety of disciplines like information science, information retrieval, network science, informetrics, scientometrics, and machine learning, to name a few. The profiles of the readers may also be diverse ranging from researchers and professors in the respective fields to students and developers being curious about the covered subjects.
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• TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION
• 01. A/B Testing
• 02. AEIOU
• 03. Affinity Diagramming
• 04. Artifact Analysis
• 05. Automated Remote Research
• 06. Behavioral Mapping
• 07. Bodystorming
• 08. Brainstorm Graphic Organizers
• 09. Business Origami
• 10. Card Sorting
• 11. Case Studies
• 12. Cognitive Mapping
• 13. Cognitive Walkthrough
• 14. Collage
• 15. Competitive Testing
• 16. Concept Mapping
• 17. Content Analysis
• 18. Content Inventory & Audit
• 19. Contextual Design
• 20. Contextual Inquiry
• 21. Creative Toolkits
• 22. Critical Incident Technique
• 23. Crowdsourcing
• 24. Cultural Probes
• 25. Customer Experience Audit
• 26. Design Charette
• 27. Design Ethnography
• 28. Design Workshops
• 29. Desirability Testing
• 30. Diary Studies
• 31. Directed Storytelling
• 32. Elito Method
• 33. Ergonomic Analysis
• 34. Evaluative Research
• 35. Evidence-based Design
• 36. Experience Prototyping
• 37. Experience Sampling Method
• 38. Experiments
• 39. Exploratory Research
• 40. Eyetracking
• 41. Flexible Modeling
• 42. Fly-on-the-Wall Observation
• 43. Focus Groups
• 44. Generative Research
• 45. Graffiti Walls
• 46. Heuristic Evaluation
• 47. Image Boards
• 48. Interviews
• 49. KJ Technique
• 50. Kano Analysis
• 51. Key Performance Indicators
• 52. Laddering
• 53. Literature Reviews
• 54. The Love Letter & the Breakup Letter
• 55. Mental Model Diagrams
• 56. Mind Mapping
• 57. Observation
• 58. Parallel Prototyping
• 59. Participant Observation
• 60. Participatory Action Research (PAR)
• 61. Participatory Design
• 62. Personal Inventories
• 63. Personas
• 64. Photo Studies
• 65. Picture Cards
• 66. Prototyping
• 67. Questionnaires
• 68. Rapid Iterative Testing & Evaluation (RITE)
• 69. Remote Moderated Research
• 70. Research Through Design
• 71. Role-playing
• 72. Scenario Description Swimlanes
• 73. Scenarios
• 74. Secondary Research
• 75. Semantic Differential
• 76. Shadowing
• 77. Simulation Exercises
• 78. Site Search Analytics
• 79. Speed Dating
• 80. Stakeholder Maps
• 81. Stakeholder Walkthrough
• 82. Storyboards
• 83. Surveys
• 84. Task Analysis
• 85. Territory Maps
• 86. Thematic Networks
• 87. Think-aloud Protocol
• 88. Time-aware Research
• 89. Touchstone Tours
• 90. Triading
• 91. Triangulation
• 92. Unobtrusive Measures
• 93. Usability Report
• 94. Usability Testing
• 95. User Journey Maps
• 96. Value Opportunity Analysis
• 97. Web Analytics
• 98. Weighted Matrix
• 99. Wizard of Oz
• 100. Word Clouds ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHORS.
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The ultimate handbook for designers, students, even educators, The Pocket Universal Methods of Design is armed with 100 principles of design knowledge to keep your team sharp. This handy, pocket-version of the Universal Methods of Design provides the same thorough and critical presentation of 100 research methods, synthesis/analysis techniques, and research deliverables for human centered design. And now it's delivered in a concise, accessible format that fits in any bag or purse! Each method of research is distilled down to its most powerful essence, in a format that will help design teams select and implement the most credible research methods best suited to their design culture within the constraints of their projects. This valuable guide: Dismantles the myth that user research methods are complicated, expensive, and time-consuming Creates a shared meaning for cross-disciplinary design teams Illustrates methods with compelling visualizations and case studies Characterizes each method at a glance Don't wait to get your team on the same page and designing in a completely new, more effective way! .
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• A/B testing
• AEIOU
• Affinity diagramming
• Artifact analysis
• Automated remote research
• Behavioral mapping
• Bodystorming
• Brainstorm graphic organizers
• Business origami
• Card sorting
• Case studies
• Cognitive mapping
• Cognitive walkthrough
• Collage
• Competitive testing
• Concept mapping
• Content analysis
• Content inventory & audit
• Contextual design
• Contextual inquiry
• Creative toolkits
• Critical incident technique
• Crowdsourcing
• Cultural probes
• Customer experience audit
• Design charette
• Design ethnography
• Design workshops
• Desirability testing
• Diary studies
• Directed storytelling
• Elito method
• Ergonomic analysis
• Evaluative research
• Evidence-based design
• Experience prototyping
• Experience sampling method
• Experiments
• Exploratory research
• eyetracking
• Flexible modeling
• Fly-on-the-wall observation
• Focus groups
• Generative research
• Graffiti walls
• Heuristic evaluation
• Image boards
• Interviews
• KJ technique
• Kano analysis
• Key performance indicators
• Laddering
• Literature reviews
• The love letter & the breakup letter
• Mental model diagrams
• Mind mapping
• Observation
• Parallel prototyping
• Participant observation
• Participatory Action Research (PAR)
• Participatory design
• Personal inventories
• Personas
• Photo studies
• Picture cards
• Prototyping
• Questionnaires
• Rapid Iterative Testing & Evaluation (RITE)
• Remote moderated research
• Research through design
• Role-playing
• Scenario description swimlanes
• Scenarios
• Secondary research
• Semantic differential
• Shadowing
• Simulation exercises
• Site search analytics
• Speed dating
• Stakeholder maps
• Stakeholder walkthrough
• Storyboards
• Surveys
• Task analysis
• Territory maps
• Thematic networks
• Think-aloud protocol
• Time-aware research
• Touchstone tours
• Triading
• Triangulation
• Unobtrusive measures
• Usability report
• Usability testing
• User journey maps
• Value opportunity analysis
• Web analytics
• Weighted matrix
• Wizard of Oz
• Word clouds.

Universal Methods of Design is a landmark method book for the field of design.

In "Canada's National System of Innovation", Jorge Niosi discusses the theoretical underpinnings of the concept of innovation, examining the works of Bengt-Ake Lundvall, Christopher Freeman, Richard Nelson, Charles Edquist and others around the world. He argues that the concept is particularly useful in analysing science and technology policy and related institutions. Niosi looks at the history of Canada's National System of Innovation (NSI), particularly during the post-war period, illuminating the fact that during and after World War I over 30 research universities, 150 government laboratories, and dozens of government policies aimed at nurturing innovation in private firms, academia, and government organizations were developed. He uses data obtained through questionnaire responses from all the large research and development organizations in Canada to analyse Canada's domestic system of innovation, finding increasing collaboration between universities, government laboratories, and private firms. He concludes that Canada has been quite successful in creating a national system of innovation and that the federal government, through its initiatives and innovative techniques, has been the main factor in the creation of this system.
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Cet ouvrage pose un regard critique sur la régulation de l'activité de recherche au nom de l'éthique. Il démontre qu'au-delà des principes qui font consensus, la régulation de la recherche souffre d'un grave problème de malréglementation. Il est ici question de malréglementation comme, en d'autres milieux, il est question de malbouffe. Il y a malréglementation lorsque, s'appuyant sur des principes admis de tous, l'on multiplie les contraintes sans justifications sérieuses et sans pour autant accroître les protections recherchées. À partir de différentes perspectives, les auteurs décrivent comment ce qui devait constituer une occasion de dialogue sur les valeurs et les enjeux de certains types de recherche s'est peu à peu transformé en un dispositif autoritaire, bureaucratique, marqué au coin de la procédure et de l'obsession du « formulaire de consentement ». Ce type de dispositif est imposé dans un vaste ensemble de situations qui ne présentent pas toutes les mêmes intensités de risque. Une grande partie de la littérature sur l'éthique de la recherche s'attache à démontrer la nécessité de respecter les règles de bonne conduite. Moins nombreuses sont les tentatives de porter un regard critique sur les mécanismes régulateurs et de faire des suggestions concrètes pour s'affranchir de l'arbitraire. C'est le défi qu'ont voulu relever les auteurs de ce livre.

• Part One of the book follows a step-by-step guide to the research process itself: * develop the research objectives * design and plan the study * write the proposal * obtain financial support for the research * manage the research * draw conclusions and make recommendations * write the report * disseminate the results. Part Two offers an introduction to some of the more common research methods, and takes the reader through the processes of collecting and analysing data, including sampling, surveys, interviewing, focus groups and capturing data.
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This new edition of Nick Moore's highly successful "How to do Research" offers an accessible guide to the complete research process. It focuses on the day-to-day requirements of project, managing a piece of research right through from the formulation of the initial idea, to the development of a research proposal and then to the writing up and disseminating of results. Updated throughout, it also contains new and expanded sections on in-house research; the use of sub-contractors and market-research companies; the use of the internet as a research tool; and ethical issues. The book provides practical help and guidance to anyone undertaking academic or social research, whether through work or study. Part One of the book follows a step-by-step guide to the research process itself: develop the research objectives; design and plan the study; write the proposal; obtain financial support for the research; manage the research; draw conclusions and make recommendations; write the report; and; disseminate the results. Part Two offers an introduction to some of the more common research methods, and takes the reader through the processes of collecting and analysing data, including sampling, surveys, interviewing, focus groups and capturing data. This book offers a wealth of invaluable guidance to both new and experienced researchers, presented in a clear, simple style. It is ideal for professionals undertaking research and the evaluation of services; for undergraduate and postgraduate students undertaking dissertations and other research projects; and as an introductory text on research methods courses in any social science discipline.
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• Preface.- Part one The Frontier of Science and Technology in the world.- Part two Progress of e-Science in Major Projects.- Part three Achievements of Informatization in Interdisciplinary.
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This book is jointly compiled by Chinese Academy of Sciences, Cyberspace Administration of China, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, National Natural Science Foundation of China and Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Over the past several years, Chinese scholars have contributed numerous research works on the development of Chinese scientific information and technology, and produced a range of outstanding achievements. Focusing on the main topic of e-Science, this book explores the forefront of science and technology around the globe, the major demands in China and the main fields in China's economic development. Furthermore, it reviews the major achievements and the typical cases in China's e-Science research. It provides a valuable reference source for future technological innovations and will introduce researchers and students in the area of e-Science to the latest results in China.
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• Foreword (Fridolin Piwonka) Part I Introduction Research and Development Process and Preparation Part II Project Organization The Project Hierarchy The Project Task Part III Knowledge Representation An Epistemological Journey Categories and Types of Knowledge Roles of Knowledge Propositions Limits of Knowledge Part IV The Scientific Method Overview Analysis Hypothesis Synthesis Validation Appendices Bibliography Glossary Tips Summaries and Guidelines Sample Milestone Charts.
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Over the past decade, the author has met with directors of R&D departments in large industrial firms, who are frustrated by the lack of coherent and consistent methodologies in R&D projects. As a direct result the author was asked to design and present a seminar to provide R&D engineers and scientists a standard methodology for conducting coherent, rigorous, comprehensible, and consistent R&D projects. The author also realized that this training should be included in engineering and science curricula in universities and colleges. To this end, he designed and presented a pilot course for his department that was received enthusiastically by students who participated. This course has now become a required course for all doctoral students in the author's department. This book has been designed to provide professional engineers, scientists, and students with a consistent and practical framework for the rigorous conduct and communication of complex research and development projects. Although courses and training in research methods are common and generally required of social science professionals, a vast majority of physical scientists and engineers have had no formal classroom training or on-the-job mentoring on proper procedures for research methods. Getting It Right emphasizes the comprehensive analysis of project problems, requirements, and objectives; the use of standard and consistent terminology and procedures; the design of rigorous and reproducible experiments; the appropriate reduction and interpretation of project results; and the effective communication of project design, methods, results, and conclusions.
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Publikace se zabývá vztahem mezi volbou metodologie, metodou, výzkumným cílem a výslednou výpovědí v obecné rovině vědeckého zkoumání. Na teoretické bázi představuje jednotlivé typy metod a možnosti jejich uplatnění a analyzuje jejich přednosti a omezení. Podrobněji je zkoumána explanace a z časového, procesního a strukturně-funkčního pohledu také narace. Závěr knihy je věnován problému evaluace vědeckovýzkumné činnosti a jejího dopadu na financování věd.

• Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Author Biographies; Bob Smith; Lou Densmore; Ed Lener; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; References; Chapter 1
• Getting Started; Choosing graduate study in the sciences; Investigating possibilities for graduate study in the sciences; University organization; The players; Allegiances and obligations; Chapter 2
• Attitudes, Commitments, and Creativity; Attitudes and commitments; Creativity; Levels of creativity; Characteristics of auctors; Chapter 3
• Making Choices; Choices in types of research; Choosing an advisor and mentor.

• Adopting role modelsEvaluating financial support options; Selecting programs of study; Considering interdisciplinary versus disciplinary research; Choosing a research problem; Selecting courses and using research aids; Recommending thesis and dissertation committee members; Chapter 4
• Time Management; Planning; Organization; Execution; Chapter 5
• Principles of Scientific Research; Observation; Using observations and experiences to identify problems for study; Hypotheses; Experimentation; Interpretation; Chapter 6
• Ethics and the Scientist; The ethos and methods of science.

• Scientists' valuesThe dark side of science; Misconduct in research; Plagiarism and its avoidance; Other ethical matters of concern; Keeping the code; Chapter 7
• Library and Literature Work; Professional reading; Graduate level literature work; Using the library; Searching the literature; Library catalog; Library discovery services; Article databases; Discipline-based article databases; General searching tips; Boolean operators; Truncation and wildcards; Evaluating the literature; Organizing literature references; Keeping up with the literature; Chapter 8
• Writing and Speaking Skills.

• Writing skillsElements of good writing; Approaches to good writing; Preparing notes and outlines; Write, rewrite, and rewrite; Writing tools; Texting, email and written notes, memos, and letters; Persuasiveness; Research notebooks; Reports; Report Format and Style; Research papers; Book or journal reviews; Speaking and Communicating Well; Chapter 9
• Preparing Theses and Dissertations; Planning and approaches; Characteristics of theses and dissertations; Dissertation blues; Relations with thesis and dissertation committee members; Approaches to writing; Deadlines, word processing, and binding.

• The defense and oral examinationChapter 10
• Presentation and Publication of Papers; Presentation of papers at meetings; Submission of abstracts; Types of presentations; Publication of papers; Selecting journals and publishers; Preparation of manuscripts; Submitting manuscripts to publishers; Manuscript reviews; Handling proofs; Chapter 11
• Research Involving Human Subjects and Animals and Biohazards and Laboratory Safety; Human subjects research; Use of animals in research; Veterinary care and assistance; Biohazards and laboratory safety; Chapter 12
• Getting Grant Support.

'Graduate Research' is an all-in-one resource for prospective and matriculated graduate students in the sciences. The newly revised edition includes updates to every chapter. It covers a range of topics including writing and preparation of research proposals, developing and refining teaching skills, and ethics and compliance areas such as research involving human subjects and animals.

• Qualitative-quantitative research: a false dichotomy
• The qualitative-quantitative research continuum
• Validity and trustworthiness of research
• Strategies to enhance validity and trustworthiness
• Applying the qualitative-quantitative interactive continuum
• "Science" and a search for principles of practice in mixed methods.

• Part 1. The research process
• part 2. Methods.

This new edition of Nick Moore's highly successful "How to do Research" offers an accessible guide to the complete research process. It focuses on the day-to-day requirements of project, managing a piece of research right through from the formulation of the initial idea, to the development of a research proposal and then to the writing up and disseminating of results. Updated throughout, it also contains new and expanded sections on in-house research

• 1. Issues in Research
• 2. Planning the Research
• 3. Reviewing the Literature
• 4. Research Instruments
• 5. Finding and Locating Information
• 6. Analysing Data
• 7. Completing the Research Project
• 8. Research in Schools: Case Studies Based on Research Projects.
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The Researcher's Toolkit is a practical rather than an academic text for all those undertaking, perhaps for the first time, small-scale research. Written by an experienced team of practising researchers, it covers the entire research process - from designing and submitting a research proposal through to its completion. This book is suitable for all researchers, but is particularly designed for those practitioner-based researchers from the fields of education, social work, nursing, criminal justice and community work. This fresh new idea for those conducting small-scale research comes from a team of practising researchers who possess a broad range of experiences and knowledge of research design, execution and completion. They write in a user-friendly style that those researchers new to the subject will find easy to follow and understand. It will act both as a roadmap to planning, execution and completing research and also as a dip-in reference guide. Using features such as activity boxes to highlight key concepts and short summary boxes to indicate fundamental elements of the research area under discussion, this accessible book will be of great value to all who read it.
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• 1. Qualitative-Quantitative Research: A False Dichotomy
• 2. Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods: An Interactive Continuum
• 3. Validity and Legitimation of Research
• 4. Strategies to Enhance Validity and Legitimation
• 5. Applying the Qualitative-Quantitative Interactive Continuum to a Variety of Studies
• 6. Conclusions: Modern-Day Science Is Both Qualitative and Quantitative
• App. A. Research Paradigms
• App. B. Phenomenological Research: Laughter and Humor
• App. C. One Counselor's Intervention in the Aftermath of a Middle School Student's Suicide: A Case Study
• App. D. Effect of Therapist's Self-Disclosure on Patients' Impressions of Empathy, Competence, and Trust in an Analogue of a Psychotherapeutic Interaction.

Rejecting the artificial dichotomy between qualitative and quantitative research strategies in the social and behavioral sciences, Isadore Newman and Carolyn R. Benz argue that the two approaches are neither mutually exclusive nor interchangeable; rather, the actual relationship between the two paradigms is one of isolated events on a continuum of scientific inquiry. Through graphic and narrative descriptions, Newman and Benz show research to be a holistic endeavor in the world of inquiry. To clarify their argument, they provide a diagram of the "qualitative-quantitative interactive continuum" showing that qualitative analysis with its feedback loops can easily modify the types of research questions asked in quantitative analysis research and that the quantitative analysis results and its feedback can change what will be asked qualitatively. In their model for research - an "interactive continuum" - Newman and Benz emphasize four major points: the research question dictates the selection of research methods; consistency between question and design can lead to a method of critiquing research studies in journals; the interactive continuum model is built around the place of theory; and the assurance of "validity" of research is central to all studies.
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AgEcon indexes full text scholarly research in the field of agricultural economics including sub disciplines such as agribusiness, food supply, natural resource economics, environmental economics, policy issues, agricultural trade, and economic development. Includes full text PDFs of: Working papers - Conference papers - Journal articles - Monographs.