Research Design: Creating Robust Approaches for the Social Sciences

by Stephen Gorard

Book Overview

Research design is of critical importance in social research, despite its relative neglect in many methods resources. Early consideration of design in relation to research questions leads to the elimination or diminution of threats to eventual research claims, by encouraging internal validity and substantially reducing the number of alternative explanations for any finite number of research ′observations′.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1446249018
• ISBN13: 9781446249017
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.6"