Developing Cross-cultural Measurement in Social Work Research and Evaluation

2017 Political Science

Author : Thanh V. Tran
Release : 2017
Genre : Political Science
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Download or read book Developing Cross-cultural Measurement in Social Work Research and Evaluation written by Thanh V. Tran. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing Cross-Cultural Measurement in Social Work Research and Evaluation, Second Edition is a practical, hands-on guide for social work researchers to learn how to develop, assess, and validate meaningful measurements across cultures and populations. The book takes the reader from conceptualization to analysis, using specific techniques with SEM and IRT for cross-cultural research.

Developing Cross-Cultural Measurement

2009-03-27 Social Science

Author : Thanh V. Tran
Release : 2009-03-27
Genre : Social Science
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Download or read book Developing Cross-Cultural Measurement written by Thanh V. Tran. This book was released on 2009-03-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social workers engage in cross-cultural research in order to understand how diverse populations cope with life situations, to identify risk and protective factors across cultures, and to evaluate the effectiveness of policies and programs on the well-being of individuals from different cultures. In order to do so, it is necessary to begin with meaningful, appropriate, and practical research instruments, yet such instruments are not always readily available, or they may be misleading or biased. In this clearly written pocket guide, social work researchers will find a concise, easy-to-follow explanation of how to develop and assess cross-cultural measures that sidestep such complications and provide reliable, valid data. Using a step-by-step approach, expert cross-cultural researcher Thanh V. Tran carefully explores the issues and methodology in cross-cultural measurement development in social work research and evaluation. The book draws on existing cross-cultural research in social sciences and related areas to illustrate how to formulate research questions, select observable statistics, understand cross-cultural translation, evaluate and implement measurement equivalence, and discern quality within practices of measurement development. Tran also discusses how to use statistics software programs such as SPSS to generate data for LISREL analyses, providing enough detail to help readers grasp the programs' applications in this area but not so much as to overwhelm. This concise text offers a wealth of knowledge about using and interpreting the use of culturally relevant research instruments. Doctoral students and social researchers in the field seeking guidance in selecting and adapting such instruments in their studies, or developing and assessing their own, will find it a terrific source of essential information for their work. For additional resources, visit http://www.oup.com/us/pocketguides.

Applied Cross-Cultural Data Analysis for Social Work

2021-07-06 Social Science

Author : Thanh V. Tran
Release : 2021-07-06
Genre : Social Science
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Download or read book Applied Cross-Cultural Data Analysis for Social Work written by Thanh V. Tran. This book was released on 2021-07-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applied Cross-Cultural Data Analysis for Social Work is a research guide for examining and interpreting data for the purpose of cultural group comparisons. This book aims to provide practical applications in statistical approaches of data analyses that are commonly used in cross-cultural research and evaluation. Readers are presented with step-by-step illustrations in the use of descriptive, bivariate, and multivariate statistics to compare cross-cultural population using large-scale, population-based survey data. These techniques have important applications in health, mental health, and social science research relevant to social work and other helping professions, especially in providing a framework of evidence to examine health disparities using population-health data. For each statistical approach discussed in this book, Thanh V. Tran and Keith T. Chan explain the underlying purpose, basic assumptions, types of variables, application of the Stata statistical package, the presentation of statistical findings, and the interpretation of results. Unlike previous guides on statistical approaches and data analysis in social work, this book explains and demonstrates the strategies of cross-cultural data analysis using descriptive and bivariate analysis, multiple regression, additive and multiplicative interaction, mediation, SEM and HLM for subgroup analysis and cross-cultural comparisons. This book also includes sample syntax from Stata for social work researchers to conduct cross-cultural analysis with their own research.

Participant Recruitment and Retention in Intervention and Evaluation Research

2018-01-02 Social Science

Author : Audrey L. Begun PhD
Release : 2018-01-02
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 717/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Participant Recruitment and Retention in Intervention and Evaluation Research by : Audrey L. Begun PhD

Download or read book Participant Recruitment and Retention in Intervention and Evaluation Research written by Audrey L. Begun PhD. This book was released on 2018-01-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical "how to" guide integrates a comprehensive, interdisciplinary review of literature, alongside a wealth of the authors' combined research experience, into a framework for behavioral health and other investigators concerned with successful participant recruitment and retention in intervention and evaluation research studies. The content applies across disciplines, provides numerous real-world and hypothetical examples, analyzes complex issues and ethical concerns, and provides investigators with concrete, practical tools for planning, budgeting, assessing, engaging in, analyzing, and reporting their studies' participant recruitment and retention efforts. The book's focus is on application to intervention and evaluation research, and the authors present a great deal of information of contemporary relevance, including demonstrating an awareness of the opportunities and limitations of engaging research participants in an electronic age. In these ways, Participant Recruitment and Retention in Intervention and Evaluation Research stands out from the fragmented published literature concerning participant recruitment and retention and from research methodology textbooks, many of which dedicate very little attention to the practical issues involved in successfully recruiting and retaining study participants in studies of these types.

Data Analysis with Small Samples and Non-normal Data

2018 Mathematics

Author : Carl F. Siebert
Release : 2018
Genre : Mathematics
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Download or read book Data Analysis with Small Samples and Non-normal Data written by Carl F. Siebert. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to nonparametrics -- Analyzing single variables and single groups -- Comparing two or more independent groups -- Comparing two or more related groups -- Predicting with multiple independent variables -- Appendix -- Index

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