The social work student's research handbook
1. Social work research : context and politics -- 2. Ethics -- 3. Evidence and professional social work practice -- 4. Problem formulation : what to study -- 5. Using the literature -- 6. Working from questions or hypotheses -- 7. Variables -- 8. Assumptions -- 9. Design options -- 10. Exploratory design -- 11. Descriptive design -- 12. Experimental design -- 13. Correlational design -- 14. Plausible alternative explanations -- 15. Practice evaluation -- 16. Program evaluation -- 17. Working toward reliability and validity -- 18. Sampling -- 19. Data collection -- 20. Data analysis : an overview -- 21. Qualitative data analysis : making sense of words -- 22. Quantitative data analysis : making sense of descriptive stats -- 23. Quantitative data analysis : making sense of inferential stats -- 24. Tests of statistical significance -- 25. Wrapping it up.