Applied Research Design

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Terry Elizabeth Hedrick - U.S. General Accounting Office
Leonard Bickman - Vanderbilt University, USA and Florida International University, USA
Debra J. Rog - Westat, Inc.

Volume: 32

Series:
Applied Social Research Methods

Other Titles in:
Evaluation | Social Research Methods

152 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

To help researchers and students make the transition from the classroom and laboratory to research in the `real world', the authors reveal the pitfalls and suggest strategies to overcome problems in the design and planning of applied research. With a focus on how to refine research questions as real world events force deviations from the original research plan, they discuss how to study and monitor programme implementation and statistical power analysis. They also explore how to assess the human and material resources that will be needed at different times while conducting an applied research design to facilitate the management of data collection, analysis and interpretation.

Thomas W Cook

Foreword

The Nature of Applied Research

Defining the Focus of the Research

Selecting a Research Design

Selecting Data Collection Approaches

Resource Planning

Making Trade-offs and Testing Feasibility

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Terry Elizabeth Hedrick

Terry E. Hedrick is Director of the Training Institute of the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO). In this role, she directs agency training and education efforts to prepare GAO staff to carry out their responsibilities to produce quality and unbiased audit, evaluation, and policy analysis work for Congress. More About Author

Leonard B. Bickman

Leonard Bickman, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry and Public Policy. He is director of the Center for Evaluation and Program Improvement and Associate Dean for Research at Peabody College. He earned his Ph.D. in psychology (social) from the City University of New York, his master's degree in experimental psychopathology from Columbia University and his bachelor's from the City College of New York. Professor Bickman is a nationally recognized leader in program evaluation and mental healthservices research on children and adolescents. He has published more than 15 books and monographs and 180 articles and chapters and has been... More About Author

Debra J. Rog

Debra J. Rog, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Associate with the Center for Evaluation and Program Improvement (CEPI), and directs its Washington office. She has over 25 years of experience in program evaluation and applied research and has directed numerous multi-site evaluations and research projects involving issues of poverty, homelessness, housing and services for vulnerable populations including children and families, mental health, and others. Currently, she is the Principal Investigator of a Coordinating Center for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration's Homeless Families Initiative, and two foundation-funded cross-site... More About Author

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