PPPM 690, Research Colloquium
Recommended Readings
January, 2001

General Overviews and Textbooks:
Earl Babbie, The Practice of Social Research. Wadsworth Publishing
Company,
Belmont, California. 9th edition, 2001 (earlier editions are very
similar).

Earl Babbie, The Basics of Social Research. Wadsworth Publishing Company,
Belmont,
California. 1998 (a pared down version of the more complete textbook).

 Terry E Hedrick, Leonard Bickman, and Debra J Rog. Applied Research
Design:  
 A Practical Guide, Sage Applied Social Research Methods Series,
Volume: 32
(This Sage series is a wonderful source of concise, easy to read, helpful
volumes.  Many
others are listed below and the full list can be found on the Sage web
page.) 
   
Chava Frankfort-Nachmias and David Nachmias. Research Methods in the
Social
Sciences. (a general overview of research methods)

Delbert Miller. Handbook of Research Design and Social Measurement.  (an
excellent
source of scales and measures)

Joan E Sieber, Planning Ethically Responsible Research: A Guide for
Students and
Internal Review Boards, Sage Applied Social Research Methods Series,
Volume: 31

Abbas Tashakkori and Charles Teddlie. Mixed Methodology: Combining
Qualitative and
Quantitative Approaches. Sage Applied Social Research Methods series,
Volume: 46. 

Howard S. Becker. 1997. Tricks of the Trade: How to Think about Your
Research while
You're Doing It. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Wayne C. Booth. The Craft of Research. University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Mildred Patten. 2000. Proposing Empirical Research.  Pyrczak.

Paul Leedy and Jeanne Ellis Ormond. 1985.  Practical Research, Plannning
and Design,
7th edition. Prentice-Hall.

Survey Research: 
Earl Babbie.  Survey Research Methods. Wadsworth Publishing Company,
Belmont,
California. 1990 

Ronald Czaja and Johnny Blair. 1995.  Designing Surveys : A Guide to
Decisions and
Procedures. The Pine Forge Press Series in Research Methods and Statistics

Louis M. Rea, et al. 1997. Designing and Conducting Survey Research : A
Comprehensive Guide (Jossey-Bass Public Administration Series)
                          
Priscilla Salant and Don A. Dillman(Contributor). How to Conduct Your Own
Survey.
John Wiley and Sons.
        
Dale Nesbary. 1999. Survey Research and the World Wide Web. Allyn and
Bacon.

Arlene Fink and Jacqueline B. Kosecoff. 1998. How to Conduct Surveys : A
Step by Step
Guide. Sage.

Floyd J. Fowler. Survey Research Methods. Sage Applied Social Research
Methods
Series, Vol 1, 1993.

Don A. Dillman. 1999. Mail and Internet Surveys: The Tailored Design
Method. John
Wiley and sons.

Paul J Lavrakas. Telephone Survey Methods:  Sampling, Selection, and
Supervision. Sage
Applied Social Research Methods series, Volume: 7 

Thomas W Mangione, Mail Surveys: Improving the Quality, Sage Applied
Social
Research Methods series, Volume: 40.

Floyd J Fowler Jr, Improving Survey Questions Design and Evaluation. Sage
Applied
Social Research Methods series, Volume: 38.

Evaluation Research: 
New Directions for Evaluation, a Jossey-Bass journal, Individual issues
often have very
useful guidelines and are sometimes reprinted in book form.

Melvin Mark, et al. 2000. Evaluation: An Integrated Framework for
Understanding,
Guiding, and Improving Policies and Programs.  Jossey-Bass.

Joseph S. Wholey, et al. 1994. Handbook of Practical Program
Evaluation.Jossey-Bass.

Brian T Yates, Analyzing Costs, Procedures, Processes,  and Outcomes in
Human
Services: An Introduction. Sage Applied Social Research Methods series,
Volume: 42. 

Robert F Boruch, Randomized Experiments for Planning and Evaluation: A
Practical
Guide. Sage Applied Social Research Methods series, Volume: 44. 

Thomas D. Cook and Donald
T. Campbell. 1979. Quasi-Experiementation: Design and
Analysis Issues for Field Settings. Chicago: Rand McNally.

Richard Berg and Peter H. Rossi. 1998. Thinking About Program
Evaluation. Sage.

Leonard Bickman and Debra J. Rog (eds.) 1998. Handbook of Applied Social
Research
Methods. Sage.

Huey-Tsyh Chen. 1990. Theory-Driven Evaluations. Sage.

J. Barton Cunningham. 1993. Action Research and Organizational
Development.
Praeger.

Terry E. Hedrick, Leonard Bickman, and Debra J. Rog. 1993. Applied
Research Design:
A Practical Guide. Sage.

Peter H. Rossi and Howard E. Freeman. 1996. Evaluation: A Systematic
Approach. Sage.

Qualitative Research, Ethnography, Case Studies:
Danny L Jorgensen, A Methodology for Human Studies. Sage Applied Social
Research
Methods series, Volume: 15.

Robert K Yin, Case Study Research:  Design and Methods. Sage Applied
Social
Research Methods series, Volume: 5, Second Edition 

Jacques Hamel, Stephane Dufour, and Dominic Fortin. Case Study
Methods. Sage
Qualitative Research Methods series, Volume: 32.

Glaser, Barney G. and Anselm L. Strauss. 1967. The Discovery of Grounded
Theory:
Strategies for Qualitative Research. Chicago: Aldine.  

David M Fetterman. Ethnography: Step by Step. Sage Applied Social Research
Methods
series, Volume: 17, Second Edition 

Joseph A Maxwell, Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive
Approach. Sage
Applied Social Research Methods series, Volume: 41.

Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln. 1994. Handbook of Qualitative
Research.
Sage.

John Lofland and Lyn H. Lofland. 1995. Analyzing Social Settings: A Guide
to
Qualitative Observation and Analysis. Wadsworth.

David Silverman. 1999. Doing Qualitative Research: A Practical
Handbook. Sage.

Anselm Strauss and Juliet Corbin. 1990. Basics of Qualitative
Research: Grounded
Theory Procedures and Techniques. Sage. 

Flick Uwe. 1998. An Introduction to Qualitiative Research. Sage

Matthew B. Miles and A. Michael Huberman. 1994. Qualitative Data Analysis
: An
Expanded Sourcebook, 2nd edition. Sage Publications.

Sampling, Data Gathering, and Quantitative Analysis:
Gary T Henry. Practical Sampling. Sage Applied Social Research Methods
series,
Volume: 21.

Robert F DeVellis, Scale Development: Theory and Applications, Sage
Applied Social
Research Methods series, Volume: 26.

Gary T Henry, Graphing Data: Techniques for Display and Analysis. Sage
Applied
Social Research Methods series. Volume: 36 

Larry D Schroeder, David L Sjoquist, and Paula E Stephan. Understanding
Regression
Analysis: An Introductory Guide. Sage Quantitative Applications in the
Social Sciences
series, Volume: 57 

Kenneth J. Meier and Jeffrey L. Brudney. Applied Statistics for Public
Administration,
4th edition, 1997. Harcourt Brace.

Magda Stouthamer-Loeber and Welmoet Bok van Kammen, Data Collection and
Management: A Practical Guide, Sage Applied Social Research Methods
series, 
Volume: 39 

Chava Frankfort-Nachmias and Anna Leon-Guerrero. 1997. Social Statistics
for a
Diverse Society. Pine Forge Press.

James Davis. 1971. Elementary Survey Analysis. Prentice-Hall.

Michael Lewis-Beck. 1995. Data Analysis: An Introduction. Sage Quantative
Application
in the Social Sciences series, volume 103. 

Rae R. Newton and Kjell Erik Rudestam. 1999. Your Statistical
Consultant: Answers to
Your Data Analysis Questions. Sage. 

Hans Zeisel. 1957. Say it With Figures. Harper and Row.

Jacques Tacq. 1997. Multivariate Analysis Techniques in Social Science
Research: From
Problem to Analysis. Sage.

Craig A. Mertler and Rachel A. Vannatta. 2001. Advanced and Multivariate
Statistical
Methods: Practical Application and Interpretation. Los Angeles: Pyrczak.


Unobtrusive Measures, Secondary Analysis, Meta-Analysis:
Robert Rosenthal, Meta-Analytic Procedures for Social Research. Sage
Applied Social
Research Methods series, Volume: 6 

David W Stewart and Michael A Kamins. Secondary Research, Second Edition:
Information Sources and Methods. Sage Applied Social Research Methods
series, 
Volume: 4 

Mark W Lipsey and David B Wilson. Practical Meta-Analysis. Sage Applied
Social
Research Methods series, Volume: 49. 
 
Robert Philip Weber. Basic Content Analysis. Sage Quantitative
Applications in the
Social Sciences series, Volume: 49, Second Edition. 

Eugene J. Webb (Editor), Donald T. Campbell, Richard
D.Swartz. 1999. Unobtrusive
Measures, (Sage Classics Series, 2), Corwin Press.

Raymond M. Lee. 2000. Unobtrusive Methods in Social Research. Open
University
Press.

Miscellaneous:
David W Stewart,  Focus Groups: Theory and Practice Sage Applied Social
Research
Methods series,  Volume: 20 

Anne P Copeland and Kathleen M White. Studying Families. Sage Applied
Social
Research Methods series, Volume: 27. 
 
Michael I. Harrison, Diagnosing Organizations: Methods, Models, and
Processes. Sage
Applied Social Research Methods series, Volume: 8.

Writing Research Reports:
Harris M Cooper, Synthesizing Research: A Guide for Literature Reviews.
Sage Applied Social Research Methods series. Volume: 2, Third Edition. 

Roger J Vaughan. Communicating Social Science Research to
Policymakers. Sage
Applied Social Research Methods series, Volume: 48.

Howard S. Becker. 1986. Writing for Social Scientists.  University of
Chicago Press.