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    <title>Social work research and evaluation</title>
    <subTitle>foundations of evidence-based practice</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Grinnell, Richard M.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Unrau, Yvonne A.</namePart>
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    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2014</dateIssued>
    <copyrightDate encoding="marc">2014</copyrightDate>
    <edition>Tenth edition.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xxxi, 717 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Introduction -- Problems, questions, and hypotheses -- The quantitative approach -- The qualitative approach -- The mixed methods approach -- Research ethics -- Research with minority and disadvantaged groups -- Finding existing evidence -- Evaluating existing evidence -- Evidence-based practice -- Issues for evidence-based practitioners -- Measurement -- Standardized measuring instruments -- Designing measuring instruments -- Sampling -- Group designs -- Single-subject designs -- Structured observation -- Interviewing -- Survey research -- Secondary analysis -- Quantitative content analysis -- Qualitative content analysis -- Selecting a data collection method -- Quantitative data analysis -- Qualitative data analysis: a theoretical approach -- Qualitative data analysis: a step-by-step approach -- Evaluating quantitative studies -- Evaluating qualitative studies -- Positivistic research proposals -- Interpretive research proposals -- Writing research reports -- Program evaluation.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">[edited by] Richard M. Grinnell, Jr. and Yvonne A. Unrau.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (pages 687-700) and index.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Social service</topic>
    <topic>Research</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Evaluation research (Social action programs)</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Evidence-based social work</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">HV11 .S589 2014</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc" edition="23">361.3072</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780199988310 (hardcover : alk. paper)</identifier>
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