Series Foreword
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Choosing Your Research Question and Hypotheses
Chapter 3: Choosing Your Study’s Purpose
Chapter 4: Choosing Whether to Use a Qualitative,
Quantitative, or Mixed-Methods Approach
Chapter 5: Understanding Terms for Quantitative Studies:
Concepts, Constructs, and Variables
Chapter 6: Choosing Your Design
Chapter 7: Choosing Your Sample
Chapter 8: Planning Your Measurement Strategy for Collecting
Data
Chapter 9: Establishing Validity for Quantitative Studies
Chapter 10: Establishing Validity for Qualitative Studies
Chapter 11: Conclusion
Index
About the Authors
About the Series Editor
Jennifer Brown Urban, PhD, is a professor in the Department
of Family Science and Human Development at Montclair State
University, where she also directs the Research on Evaluation and
Developmental Systems Science lab. She is trained as a
developmental scientist with specific expertise in youth
development and program evaluation. Her scholarship is encapsulated
under the umbrella of systems science,
including both theoretical approaches and methodologies.
Bradley Matheus van Eeden-Moorefield, PhD, is an associate
professor in the Department of Family Science and Human Development
at Montclair State University and director of the PhD program. His
research includes a strong social justice commitment to
understanding and strengthening marginalized families, with his
most recent work focused on stepfamilies headed by same-sex
couples.
“The chapters are organized around the choices students need to
make, rather than the types of research and issues specific to each
type—an important distinguishing feature that sets this book apart
from other research methods text…. In the current environment of
increasing interdisciplinarity, this text is very useful to
students who find themselves coming to social science research from
other disciplines, or to students in need of clear guidelines who
do not have the time to complete another entire research methods
course.” —Choice
The chapters are organized around the choices students need to
make, rather than the types of research and issues specific to each
type — an important distinguishing feature that sets this book
apart from other research methods text…. In the current environment
of increasing interdisciplinarity, this text is very useful to
students who find themselves coming to social science research from
other disciplines, or to students in need of clear guidelines who
do not have the time to complete another entire research methods
course.
*Choice*
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