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Qualitative and Mixed Methods Data Analysis Using Dedoose®: A Practical Approach for Research Across the Social Sciences provides both new and experienced researchers with a guided introduction to dealing with the methodological complexity of mixed methods and qualitative inquiry using Dedoose® software.

This book, from SAGE's Evaluation in Practice series, considers variants of experimental evaluation designs, including those that are not commonly used but could be with much greater frequency. It also includes instructions for how to set up such experiments within program processes to learn about the effects of improvement efforts.

The Political Speechwriter¿s Companion: A Guide for Writers and Speakers walks students through a systematic "LAWS" approach (language, anecdote, wit, and support) that politicians can use to persuade their audiences into taking action. Packed with annotated speeches from the most recent elections, technology tips, and interviews from speechwriting luminaries, this highly anticipated second edition offers the most practical advice and strategies for a career in political communication.

The only text in management and organisational behaviour to focus on public organisations, non-profit organisations, and school systems, this established text develops competency in critical management and leadership skills including communication, motivation, teamwork, group dynamics, and decision making.

A good story sets the stage for engaged learning. Nowhere is this more important than in foundational courses, such as Introductory Psychology or History of Psychology. John Hogan’s Twenty-Four Stories from Psychology captivates readers with the rich stories--the who, what, where, when, why and how--for many of the major theories and colorful characters who have shaped the development of Psychology as a field. The storytelling format and carefully developed pedagogical features—critical thinking and formative assessment questions at the end of each chapter—are sure to make this brief text a powerful tool for teaching and learning in psychology.

This book critically explores culturally-responsive approaches to evaluation across the Western/North American, indigenous communities and the international development contexts.

Strategic Training and Development translates theory and research into practical applications and best practices for improving employee knowledge, skills, and behaviors.

A workbook built for application, Doing Ethnographic Research prepares your students to become effective ethnographic researchers. With activities to practice and reinforce each step of the research process, this book serves as the perfect compliment to the text, Introduction to Ethnographic Research, also written by the same authors.

Evaluation for Health Policy and Health Care: A Contemporary Data-Driven Approach explores the best practices and applications for producing, synthesizing, visualizing, using, and disseminating health care evaluation research and reports.

The new edition of this award-winning volume reflects the latest events in the climate crisis, while providing balanced coverage of the key institutions, issues, laws, and policies in global environmental politics.

Identifying and answering the essential questions on action research, this text focuses on approaching and improving practice from an inquiry-oriented perspective across applied disciplines.

Focusing on concepts, applications, and skill building, this best-selling text presents essential management themes and uses a variety of applications that challenge you to think critically and apply concepts to your own experiences.

Published annually since 1972, the Historic Documents series has made primary source research easy by presenting excerpts from documents on the important events of each year for the United States and the World.  Each volume pairs 60 to 70 original background narratives with over 100 documents to chronicle the major events. Various records may include: ¿ official reports ¿ surveys ¿ speeches from leaders and opinion makers ¿ court cases ¿ legislation ¿ testimony ¿ and much more Historic Documents is renowned for the well-written and informative background, history, and context it provides for each document. Organized chronologically, each volume covers the same wide range of topics:  ¿ business ¿ the economy and labor ¿ energy, environment, science, technology, and transportation ¿ government and politics ¿ health and social services ¿ international affairs ¿ national security and terrorism ¿ rights and justice Each volume begins with an insightful essay that sets the year¿s events in context, and each document or group of documents include: ¿ a comprehensive introduction ¿ background information on the event ¿ full-source citations ¿ easy access to material ¿ detailed and thematic table of contents ¿ references to related coverage ¿ documents from the last ten editions of the series

This text meticulously and accessibly explains the National Election Studies data and analyzes its importance and impact, covering the most recent presidential and Congressional elections, voter turnout, and the social forces, party loyalties, and prominent issues that affect voting behavior.

The authors introduce students to research methods by illuminating the underlying assumptions of social science inquiry.

This Study Guide for introductory statistics courses in health and nursing departments is designed to accompany Salkind and Frey¿s Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics, Seventh Edition. Extra exercises; activities; and true/false, multiple choice, and essay questions (with answers to all questions) feature health-specific content to help further student mastery of text concepts. Also included on the open-access study site at edge.sagepub.com/salkindfrey7e are SPSS datafiles containing survey data from health students, which are used for the exercises in the Study Guide. Data were generated for instruction purposes, and topics cover a range of health-related questions that are pertinent to health students, including the number of hours spent exercising per week, smoking status, number of hours slept per week, number of alcoholic beverages consumed per week, and sources of worry. The database includes 22 variables.

This Study Guide for introductory statistics courses in psychology departments is designed to accompany Neil J. Salkind and Bruce B. Frey¿s best-selling Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics, Seventh Edition. Extra exercises; activities; and true/false, multiple choice, and essay questions (with answers to all questions) feature psychology-specific content to help further student mastery of text concepts. Two additional appendix items in this guide include: Practice with Real Data!, which outlines four experiments and provides students with the datasets to run the analyses, plus Writing Up Your Results ¿ Guidelines based on APA style.

What captivates learners and interests them in studying social psychology? In Case Studies for Teaching Social Psychology Tom Heinzen and Wind Goodfriend use brief, entertaining case stories to further enhance the historical context, evolution of, and challenges to major theories within the field. By employing a mix of unique, contemporary research and hallmark studies to illustrate classic concepts, Heinzen and Goodfriend steer students to explore new, meaningful ways of thinking about and connecting with foundational course concepts. In turn, this approach facilitates engaged conversation and deeper critical thinking both in and outside of the classroom.

Journalism permeates our lives and shapes our thoughts in ways that we have long taken for granted. Whether it is National Public Radio in the morning or the lead story on the Today show, the morning newspaper headlines, up-to-the-minute Internet news, grocery store tabloids, Time magazine in our mailbox, or the nightly news on television, journalism pervades our lives. The Encyclopedia of Journalism covers all significant dimensions of journalism, such as print, broadcast, and Internet journalism; U.S. and international perspectives; and history, technology, legal issues and court cases, ownership, and economics. The encyclopedia will consist of approximately 500 signed entries from scholars, experts, and journalists, under the direction of lead editor Gregory Borchard of University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics Using R with new co-author Leslie A. Shaw carries forward Neil J. Salkind’s signature humorous, personable, and informative approach, providing a grounding in statistical basics, R computing and the application of statistics to research studies.

Seven Skills of Media Literacy 1st Edition supplements W. James Potter's core text, Media Literacy 9th Edition. Seven Skills will go into depth about how to teach the seven skills that will help improve student's media literacy in their everyday lives. Potter offers practical guidance and exercises, with each chapter of the book addressing one skill.

Getting Real About Inequality is a contributed reader that gives instructors a set of materials to help them moderate civil, productive, and social science-based discussions with their students about social statuses and identities.  It is organized around myths and stereotypes that students might already believe or be familiar with, and employs an intersectional perspective to underscore the nuanced mechanisms of power and inequality that are often lost in everyday discourse.

This text introduces students to the study of law from a sociological perspective by focusing on four themes: the relationship between law and society; law in everyday life; the role of race, class and gender in the legal system; and current political debates that are connected to law.