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Reference Databases

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window Content: A reference database useful for accessing scholarly definitions, background and contextual information. Subjects covered include art, biography, business, economics, education, history, literature, music, psychology, religion, and science and technology.Purpose: An excellent starting point for brainstorming a research topic and building out your initial search terms list.Special Features: Mindmap; related articles; image search
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Ebook Central This link opens in a new window Content: Ebooks with coverage across all academic disciplines. The collection offers a critical mass of more than 150,000 foundational scholarly ebooks with balanced quantity and quality to improve teaching, learning and research workflow and outcomes.Purpose: Provides access to multidisciplinary ebooks for download or to be read online.Special Features: Browse by subject option; highlight and take notes in text.Help using this database.
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SAGE Knowledge This link opens in a new window Content: Reference sources, primarily books but also videos and business cases. Purpose: Use for finding reference sources like encyclopedias and handbooks that provide contextual or explanatory material. Special Features: Includes Sage Navigator
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SAGE Navigator This link opens in a new window Content: Pulls content from SAGE Knowledge, focusing on major works.Purpose: A valuable literature review tool for social science fields.Special Features: Includes an interactive chronology tool.
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SAGE Research Methods This link opens in a new window Content: Books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos on research methods and design. Purpose: Use to learn more about qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research. Special Features: Includes a methods map, project planner, and "which stats" test
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Quantitative Research: Methods in the Social Sciences
The key concepts and methods of quantitative research are introduced in this video.
Doing and Teaching Quantitative Criminological Research
Dr. Martyn Chamberlain discusses quantitative criminological research and his approach to teaching these methods.
Studying Quantitative Methods
Professor Luke Sloan describes the benefits of learning and using quantitative methodology in academic research.

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Analyzing Quantitative Data: An Introduction for Social Researchers by Debra Wetcher-Hendricks
ISBN: 9781118626009
Publication Date: 2014
A user-friendly, hands-on guide to recognizing and conducting proper research techniques in data collection
Best Practices in Quantitative Methods by Jason W. Osborne
ISBN: 9781412940658
Publication Date: 2007
The volume provides readers with the most effective, evidence-based ways to use and analyze quantitative methods and quantitative data across the social and behavioral sciences and education.
Handbook of Quantitative Methods for Educational Research by Timothy Teo (Editor)
ISBN: 9789462094048
Publication Date: 2014
This handbook serves to act as a reference for educational researchers and practitioners who desire to acquire knowledge and skills in quantitative methods for data analysis or to obtain deeper insights from published works.
SAGE Secondary Data Analysis by John Goodwin (Editor)
ISBN: 9781446246900
Publication Date: 2012
Highlighting both the theory and practice of secondary analysis and the use of secondary sources, this collection considers the nature of secondary analysis as a research tool.
The Tao of Statistics by Dana K. Keller
ISBN: 9781412913140
Publication Date: 2005
Unlike other introductions to statistics, this text explains what statistics mean and how they are used, rather than how to calculate them.

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