Research Methods

Busse Library provides these titles and websites for students and faculty seeking information about research methods. Books listed here are a sampling available in the library and elsewhere. Websites reflect selected topics.

Gateways to Research Methods Information

• Center for Narrative Inquiry
• Center for Social Research Methods: Cornell University
• Evalwebs: Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research
• General Research Methods Sites : University of British Columbia
• HyperStat Online -- an introductory-level hypertext statistics book
• The National Center for Social Research, UK
• Research Methods on the World Wide Web -- by Kay E. Vandergrift
• Research Methods Resources from the College of Education at Arizona State University (ASU) -- highly referenced site in field
• Research Methods WWW Tutorial: Rutgers University
• Statistics at Square One
• WWW Virtual Library : Statistics

Qualitative Research Methods

• Basic Research Methods: Qualitative
• BOBBI'S PLACE: The Qualitative Research Page
• Qualitative Research Web Sites: Nova Southeastern University
• QualPage: Resources for Qualitative Researchers
• Quantitative VS. Qualitative Design -- Royal Windsor Society of Nurse Researchers

Quantitative Research Methods

• Small Sample CI (Confidence Interval) Inferences
• SCI 101: Survey Techniques -- Deakin University, Melbourne
• VassarStats: Statistical Computation Website

Subject-Specific Research Methods

• Basic Research Methods for Business
• Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
• Research Methods in the Social and Natural Sciences
• Research Methods in the Social Sciences: University of Miami
• Research Methods Knowledge Base. By Bill Trochim, Cornell University -- web-based textbook in social science research methods

Illustrating Data

• Create a Graph

Busse Library Resources

• Crabtree, Benjamin F. Doing qualitative research / c1992. R853. S64 D65 1992
• Heise, David R. Microcomputers in social research / 1981. H62. M4x
• Keppel, Geoffrey. Design and analysis : a researcher's handbook / c1982. HA29. K44 1982
• Keren, Gideon. A handbook for data analysis in the behavioral sciences / 1993. BF39. H26435 1992
• Morse, Janice M. Critical issues in qualitative research methods / c1994. RT81.5 .C75 1994
• Pedhazur, Elazar J. Measurement, design, and analysis : an integrated approach / 1991. H62. P325 1991
• Polit-O'Hara, Denise. Data analysis and statistics for nursing research / c1996. RT81.5 .P62 1996
• Seaman, Catherine H.C. Research methods : principles, practice / c1987. RT81.5 .S4 1987
• Wilson, Holly Skodol. Introducing research in nursing / c1993. RT81.5 .W54 1993

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