Understanding and Evaluating Research: A Critical Guide

Understanding and Evaluating Research: A Critical Guide
ISBN-10
1506350941
ISBN-13
9781506350943
Category
Reference
Pages
600
Language
English
Published
2017-10-25
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Author
Sue L. T. McGregor

Description

Understanding and Evaluating Research: A Critical Guide aims to sensitize students to the necessity of learning how not to defer to the mysterious authority of the experts, but rather to learn how to be a critical consumer of others' research, and to gain confidence in their ability to be producers of research. Sue McGregor shows students how to be research literate, and how to find, critique and apply other people's scholarship. This textbook is grounded in a solid understanding of the prevailing research methodologies for creating new knowledge (philosophical underpinnings), which in turn dictate problem posing, theory selection, and research methods (tasks for sampling, collecting and analyzing data, and reporting results).

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