GEOG 697: Research Capstone in Geography: Research & Poster Design

Includes ready-to-use templates, case studies, and tips for to assess needs for individuals, teams, organizations, government agencies, and communities. Learn how to manage and report a needs assessment project and access professional ethical guidelines.

Learn how to understand and use surveys effectively, avoid the pitfalls stemming from bad survey construction and inappropriate methods, how best to identify the information needed and the best approach to get that information. Each chapter focuses on one of the key components of constructing and carrying out a survey.

This text integrates theoretical perspectives with guidelines for designing and implementing community-based qualitative research projects. Coverage of participatory research designs and approaches is complemented by chapters on specific aspects of this research process, such as developing relationships and sharing findings to strengthen programs. Includes case studies and real-life examples.

In the first book ever published on Indigenous quantitative methodologies, Maggie Walter and Chris Andersen open up a major new approach to research across the disciplines and applied fields. While qualitative methods have been rigorously critiqued and reformulated, the population statistics relied on by virtually all research on Indigenous peoples continue to be taken for granted as straightforward, transparent numbers.

For more than 40 years, SAGE has been one of the leading international publishers of works on quantitative research methods in the social sciences. This new collection provides readers with a representative sample of the best articles in quantitative methods that have appeared in SAGE journals as chosen by W. Paul Vogt, editor of other successful major reference collections such as Selecting Research Methods (2008) and Data Collection (2010).

This concise text discusses a wide range of quantitative research methods, including advanced techniques such as logic regression, multilevel modeling, and structural equation modeling.  Because the text emphasizes concepts rather than mathematics and computation formulas, it is accessible to a wide range of users of research. The text discusses the quantitative designs and analytic techniques most needed by students in the social sciences and in applied disciplines such as education, social work, and business. It teaches what the various methods mean, when to use them, and how to interpret their results.