Research Design Creating Robust Approaches for the Social Sciences

Free Download Stephen Gorard, "Research Design: Creating Robust Approaches for the Social Sciences"
English | ISBN: 1446249018 | 2013 | 232 pages | EPUB | 951 KB
Research design is of critical importance in social research, despite its relative neglect in many methods resources. Early consideration of design in relation to research questions leads to the elimination or diminution of threats to eventual research claims, by encouraging internal validity and substantially reducing the number of alternative explanations for any finite number of research ′observations′.