Quantitative research methods for social work :

Teater, Barbra,

Quantitative research methods for social work : making social work count / Barbra Teater, John Devaney, Donald Forrester, Jonathan Scourfield, John Carpenter. - London : Palgrave, an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2017. - 1 volume : illustrations ; 24 cm

Formerly CIP.

Why numbers matter in social work --
Who is being studied? --
What is being studied? --
How to describe issues using numbers --
How to know if a service makes a difference --
How to use numbers to describe a sample --
How to make a decision with confidence --
How to know if two variables are related --
What is the effect of one or more variables on another variable? --
What are the key elements of ethical quantitative research? --
How to do quantitative research without collecting new data --
Using Mixed qualitative and quantitative methods in social work research.

9781137400260 (pbk.) :


Social service--Research.

361.307 / TEA

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