A practical guide for people who commission, implement and use evaluations of complex development interventions.

Creamer's practical and original approach enables students and researchers to feel confident when designing their own fully integrated mixed methods studies to answer their research questions.

This book challenges simplified notions of research, providing examples of how students can carry out qualitative research that avoids the trap of methodological reductionism.

A systematic, comprehensive approach on how to conduct a review of the literature in mixed methods research.

A hands-on guide supporting both students and supervisors on the doctoral journey, helping make the process of achieving a PhD both enjoyable and productive.

With clear, step-by-step examples and inclusion of techniques that can be applied to a variety of settings, this book lays out a systematic approach to comparative case analysis based on fundamental insights of information theory

Analyzing Inequalities: An Introduction to Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality Using the General Social Survey is a practical resource for helping students connect sociological issues with real-world data in the context of their first undergraduate sociology courses. This worktext introduces readers to the GSS, one of the most widely analyzed surveys in the U.S.; examines a range of GSS questions related to social inequalities; and demonstrates basic techniques for analyzing this data online...

A new edition of this popular student exploration of contemporary social change.

This is a core research design text for courses in experimental design aimed at social scientists, focusing on the methodological and design issues in planning an experiment.

This applied text combines clear explanations of intermediate-level statistics with a rich set of exercises to develop students' skills in selecting, performing and evaluating statistical tests. Each exercise involves writing a brief abstract so that students can translate results into a cohesive and concise story about their data.