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Veronika Batzdorfer; Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen; Laura Young; Alexia Katsanidou; Johannes Breuer; Libby Bishop – Research Ethics, 2024
Balancing speed and quality during crises pose challenges for ensuring the value and utility of data in social science research. The COVID-19 pandemic in particular underscores the need for high-quality data and rapid dissemination. Given the importance of behavioural measures and compliance with measures to contain the pandemic, social science…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Social Science Research, Data Analysis, COVID-19
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Deterding, Nicole M.; Waters, Mary C. – Sociological Methods & Research, 2021
Qualitative coding procedures emanating from grounded theory were limited by technologies of the 1960s: colored pens, scissors, and index cards. Today, electronic documents can be flexibly stored, retrieved, and cross-referenced using qualitative data analysis (QDA) software. We argue the oft-cited grounded theory framework poorly fits many…
Descriptors: Coding, Qualitative Research, Grounded Theory, Journal Articles
Wilhelmina van Dijk; Cynthia U. Norris; Sara A. Hart – Grantee Submission, 2022
Randomized control trials are considered the pinnacle for causal inference. In many cases, however, randomization of participants in social work research studies is not feasible or ethical. This paper introduces the co-twin control design study as an alternative quasi-experimental design to provide evidence of causal mechanisms when randomization…
Descriptors: Twins, Research Design, Randomized Controlled Trials, Quasiexperimental Design
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Berchtold, André – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2019
Most quantitative studies in the social sciences suffer from missing data. However, despite the large availability of documents and software to treat such data, it appears that many social scientists do not apply good practices regarding missing data. We analyzed quantitative papers published in 2017 in six top-level social science journals.…
Descriptors: Research Problems, Research Methodology, Social Science Research, Data Analysis
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Solak, Ekrem – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
The purpose of this study was to analyze and compare recent research papers on foreign language education in Turkish context with those published in international context to shed light on researchers and policy makers for future studies. This study filled a gap in this field and also aimed to increase the rate of acceptance of research papers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing for Publication, Journal Articles, Research Methodology
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Scott, Debbie; Tonmyr, Lil; Fraser, Jenny; Walker, Sue; McKenzie, Kirsten – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2009
Objective: The objectives of this article are to explore the extent to which the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) has been used in child abuse research, to describe how the ICD system has been applied, and to assess factors affecting the reliability of ICD coded data in child abuse research.…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Classification, Research, Literature Reviews
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Jackson, Gregg B. – Review of Educational Research, 1980
Methods for reviews of research that focus on inferring generalizations about substantive issues from a set of studies directly bearing on those issues are examined. The primary source of data was a content analysis of two samples of such reviews. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Literature Reviews, Research Methodology, Social Science Research
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Van Maanen, John, Ed. – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1979
Introduces this special volume whose purpose it is to encourage the further development of qualitative study as a way of increasing the diversity of the field, thus increasing the sources of insight and discovery. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Organizations (Groups), Research Methodology
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Cramer, James C. – American Sociological Review, 1980
Considers multicollinearity in nonrecursive models, misspecification of models, discrepancies between attitudes and behavior, and differences between static and dynamic models as explanations for contradictory information on the causal relationship between fertility and female employment. Finds that initially fertility affects employment but that,…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Data Analysis, Employed Women, Income
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Rigney, Daniel; Barnes, Donna – Social Science Quarterly, 1980
To identify problems in communication among social science disciplines and to point out unexploited opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaboration, the article maps the structure of interdisciplinary relationships among the various social sciences as exemplified by periodical citations in major disciplinary journals from 1936 to 1945.…
Descriptors: Citations (References), Data Analysis, Intellectual Disciplines, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Wittkopf, Eugene R. – Social Science Quarterly, 1981
Describes a social science research project undertaken to determine public opinion with regard to American foreign policy. An additional objective of the project was to compare demographic correlates of foreign policy attitudes. Results based on a Likert approach are discussed. (DB)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Data Analysis, Foreign Policy, Public Opinion
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Bennett, Stephen Earl – Social Science Quarterly, 1988
Discusses a 1947 study by Hyman and Sheatsley which investigated the political ignorance of the U.S. public. Examines the 1984 National Election Study, stating that a substantial segment of the U.S. public remains ignorant of political issues. Considers the dangers and implications of political ignorance (know-nothingism) in a democratic society.…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizenship Responsibility, Data Analysis, Democracy
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Lummis, Trevor – International Journal of Oral History, 1981
This theoretical analysis of historical data collected from oral accounts points out factors (memory, recall, sampling, interview structure, personal interpretation) which make it difficult for the historian to generalize from individual interviews. (AM)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Field Interviews, Historiography
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Abt, Clark C. – Daedalus, 1979
Discusses how modern governments support and use social science research data to keep informed about social needs and the functions of various government programs. Questions what happens to the data and how government policy research influences policy formation. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Data Analysis, Educational Trends, Government Role
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St. Pierre, Robert G. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1979
A model is described which illustrates two general uses of multiple analyses to evaluate quasi-experiments: obtaining estimates of the treatment effect, and checking the validity of the experiment. (MH)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Literature Reviews, Models
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