Book Description
Change is constant in everyday life. Infants crawl and then walk, children learn to read and write, teenagers mature in myriad ways, the elderly become frail and forgetful. Beyond these natural processes and events, external forces and interventions instigate and disrupt change: test scores may rise after a coaching course, drug abusers may remain abstinent after residential treatment. By charting changes over time and investigating whether and when events occur, researchers reveal the temporal rhythms of our lives. Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis is a much-needed professional book for empirical researchers and graduate students in the behavioral, social, and biomedical sciences. It offers the first accessible in-depth presentation of two of today's most popular statistical methods: multilevel models for individual change and hazard/survival models for event occurrence (in both discrete- and continuous-time). Using clear, concise prose and real data sets from published studies, the authors take you step by step through complete analyses, from simple exploratory displays that reveal underlying patterns through sophisticated specifications of complex statistical models. Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis offers readers a private consultation session with internationally recognized experts and represents a unique contribution to the literature on quantitative empirical methods. Visit http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/examples/alda.htm for: BL Downloadable data sets BL Library of computer programs in SAS, SPSS, Stata, HLM, MLwiN, and more BL Additional material for data analysis
Customer Reviews:
A Wonderful Work.......2007-07-15
I find Professor Singer's Book to be a most informative and useful tool for anyone who wishes to better understand Multilevel Modeling.
Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis by Singer,et al.......2007-03-13
Clearly written text... and usefull for researchers.
I would recommend it to anyone starting to learn about the subject!
The Clearest and Most Useful Book on HLM for Longitudinal Studies.......2006-07-28
This is simply the best book for those analyzing longitudinal data (data measured at more than one time point). Singer's coverage of Hierarchical Linear MOdeling (HLM) is clear, well-written (sprinkled with humor, it's like a lecture by the most popular prof. at your school), and geared towards researchers who need their programs to run, not just learn the mathematical underpinnings. Singer and Willett (the coauthor, not listed above!) set the standard for presenting math/statistics book examples.
THe authors accomplish the latter by keying her examples to data located at a UCLA website; you can run the same programs on the same datasets used in the book (wow!), and compare your output, troubleshooting any problems you may have. Singer and Willett (her coauthor, not listed here!) provide outputs and programs correspoing to several of the most popular statistical programs, including SAS and SPSS.
SInger and Willet also explain the rationale for using HLM over more traditional techniques such as regression. Simply stated, regression aggregates at a level that cause one to lose information (and hence the power to detect differences.) HLM allows one to look at overall differences due to time, but also the trajectories of individual differences who are "nested" within those time points. It's the (relatively) new thing, and is increasing used by investigators, and desired by peer reviewers.
As supplements, I suggest using the UCLA website mentioned above, subscribing to an e-mail LISTSERV for interesting (though sometimes compicated discussions of "multilevel modeling" (MULTILEVEL@JISCMAIL.AC.UK), and searching for Judith Singer's website through Google or A9 (if you use A9--"Alexa"--enough you'll get a small discount at Amazon.com). Also, compare Amazon's and Judith Singer's (through her website) current prices on this book.
Breaking down complex analyses .......2006-03-18
This is an excellent book. Multilevel modeling and survival analysis are becoming increasingly important in psychological studies, but are pretty complicated procedures. Singer & Willet offer both a conceptual background and practical ways to do the analyses in a clear, understandable manner. The book is very readable and will be an important reference for future analyses!
very clear and thorough.......2006-03-16
This book does a particularly good job of explaining the substantive meaning of the equations involved in multilevel modeling analyses. It spends a lot of extra time explaining what the equations mean in real world terms using examples from actual data sets. I teach a graduate level course on HLM and I much prefer this book to the Raudenbush & Byrk book because it not only does a better job of explaining the math (for graduate students less comfortable with statistics) but the chapters are also sprinkled with incredibly useful advice on actually running the analyses (getting them to converge, interpreting them, etc.) The Raudenbush & Bryk book probably does a slightly better job of presenting the equations, but it falls short on explanation and practical advice. If you were only going to buy one HLM book, I would start with this one.
Book Description
Everyone is a member of a community, and every community is continually changing. To successfully manage that change, community members need information.
Research Methods for Community Change: A Project-Based Approach is an in-depth review of all of the research methods that communities use to solve problems, develop their resources, and protect their identities.
With an engaging, friendly style and numerous real world examples, author Randy Stoecker shows readers how to use a project-based research model in the community. The four features of the model are
*
Diagnosing a community condition
*
Prescribing an intervention for the condition
*
Implementing the prescription
*
Evaluating its impact
At every stage of this model there are research tasks, from needs and assets assessments at the diagnosis stage to process and outcome studies at the evaluation stage. Readers will also learn the importance of involving community members at every stage of the project and in every aspect of the research, making the research part of the community-building process.
Research Methods for Community Change is perfectly suited as a text for undergraduate and graduate research methods courses across the social sciences, including sociology, social work, and public health. Community service workers, professional researchers, and consultants will also find this an invaluable guide to effecting change in their communities.
"At last! A concise, insightful and highly useful book on research methods for community action and social change. Drawing from his own rich experiences as well as from broader literature and examples, Stoecker demonstrates that valuable research is not the monopoly of professional researchers, but can be used by people anywhere as a tool for organizing and developing their communities. Highly readable, grounded in analysis, and full of practical approaches, this book will be an important resource for activists, students, scholars, policy makers and community development practitioners who seek to use research for more effective and sustainable change.”
—John Gaventa,
Fellow, Institute for Development Studies, Sussex, U.K.
“Drawing from his own experiences and from case studies from across the nation, Stoecker offers an empowering and remarkably accessible discussion of how project-based research models build community and democracy by redistributing both power and responsibility. It is an informative and valuable text that makes a convincing case that research must become daily practice for all who are committed to working for effective social change.”
—Stephen L. Fisher, Director,
Appalachian Center for Community Service, Emory & Henry College
“Stoecker's highly readable book is a great leap forward in expanding the definition and practice of research and documentation through collaboration between academics and community activists. He makes project-based research accessible to readers through lively, real examples that involve creative and strategic use of sources and resources. Stoecker shows how good quality research can make meaningful differences in people's lives. The book is perfect for use in both classrooms and nonprofit organizations.”
—Kathleen Staudt,
University of Texas at El Paso
“At last, a book that demystifies research for both novice and experienced community workers who want to make a difference. Randy Stoecker presents a refreshingly innovative and accessible challenge to more conventional texts.”
—Linda Briskman,
Associate Professor of Social Work, RMIT University, Australia
Book Description
`A complete and well rounded approach to the subject' -
Action Learning: Research and Practice
`This book, like the first edition, is indispensable reading for students however; the second edition will also be ably support established academics who may be seeking an entry-point for action research in their own organizations' -
Ontario Action Research Network
Doing Action Research in Your Own Organization -
Second Edition is an essential starting point for any student or researcher about to embark on an action research project in the fields of organization studies, health studies and education studies.
David Coghlan and Teresa Brannick offer an easy-to-follow, hands-on guide to every aspect of conducting an action research project in your own organization.
Doing Action Research in Your Own Organization is the perfect book for doctoral/Ph.D., MA or MBA students seeking a research topic based around their own work experiences.
Revised and updated throughout, the
Second Edition contains:
- No-nonsense guidance to the basics of doing action research projects
- Detailed coverage of both theory and methods in action research
- Up-to-date discussions of action learning and the role of the researcher
- A focus on the politics and ethics of action research
- Help for students and researchers in a wide range of different types of organization
- Exercises and help with writing-up your research
This book is essential reading for students and established academics alike seeking an entry-point to conducting research in their own organizations.
Book Description
"This important volume represents a paradigm shift in the evaluation field – presenting an approach that shifts evaluation from being something that we ‘should’ do to something that stakeholders can ‘look forward’ to doing, even something they might actually love doing… turning what can often be drudgery that ends up with reports that sit on shelves to dynamic processes that are downright fun, while at the same time profound, resulting in accelerating positive change in organizations, programs, and those who are part of them. The book challenges the basic tenets underlying evaluation, pushes the boundaries of the discipline. The field may never be the same."
—Malcolm J. Odell, Jr., Appreciative Inquiry Consulting, LLC
"I am delighted that the authors have taken AI and found new uses for this approach. They provide concrete examples of the many ways evaluators have successfully used the AI approach in a wide variety of program and geographic settings. Combining theory and practice, this book is an important contribution to the evaluation field."
—Gail Johnson, The Evergreen State College
Reframing Evaluation Through Appreciative Inquiry is the first book to introduce the application of Appreciative Inquiry (AI), an approach for organizational development and change, to the practice of evaluation. Authors Hallie Preskill and Tessie Tzavaras Catsambas lay out the theoretical foundation of AI and build a bridge between the theory and practice of applying AI to evaluation.
Key Features:
- Provides a step-by-step guide: Written in a clear, accessible style, the text explains the way this particular approach has been used to frame, design, and conduct evaluations in various sectors worldwide.
- Reflects specific real-world applications of AI to evaluation practice: Numerous U.S.-based and international case examples enhance readers’ ability to see the nuances of applying AI to evaluation in a wide variety of international and multicultural, organizational, community, and population contexts.
- Offers a whole-systems approach: This text provides a whole systems approach which enables evaluation to deal with complex and dynamically changing programs.
Intended Audience:
This book will appeal to a broad audience that includes evaluators, management and organization development consultants, program staff, and researchers in a wide variety of organizational and community settings. It is an ideal supplemental text for graduate courses that require students to practice evaluation.
Customer Reviews:
A Bridge Between OD and Evaluation Disciplines.......2006-07-12
This book reflects current issues that evaluators and organization development professionals face in their day to day work, such as cultural diversity, increasingly distributed populations, the challenge of the ever-changing program design, and using credible qualitative evaluation methods . It provides a step by step guide that will help readers know how to apply Appreciative Inquiry to evaluation. It empowers readers to use this approach for strengthening their own evaluation practice. This book is a bridge between evaluation and organizational development disciplines and enriches both fields.
Average customer rating:
- Analysis with Local Census Data
|
Analysis with Local Census Data: Portraits of Change
Dowell Myers
Manufacturer: Academic Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
 Demography
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
Human Geography
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
Research
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
Statistics
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Earth Sciences
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
Probability & Statistics
| Applied
| Mathematics
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
Statistics
| Applied
| Mathematics
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Earth Sciences
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
Look Inside Nonfiction Books
| Trip
| Specialty Stores
| Books
Look Inside Science Books
| Trip
| Specialty Stores
| Books
All Amazon Upgrade
| Amazon Upgrade
| Stores
| Books
Nonfiction
| Amazon Upgrade
| Stores
| Books
Professional & Technical
| Amazon Upgrade
| Stores
| Books
Science
| Amazon Upgrade
| Stores
| Books
All Titles
| Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007
| Stores
| Books
Nonfiction
| Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007
| Stores
| Books
Professional
| Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007
| Stores
| Books
Science
| Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007
| Stores
| Books
Similar Items:
-
The American People: Census 2000
-
The Elements of Technical Writing (2nd Edition)
-
Mapping Global Cities: GIS Methods in Urban Analysis
-
Community Analysis and Planning Techniques
-
Immigrants and Boomers: Forging a New Social Contract for the Future of America
ASIN: 0125123086 |
Book Description
The 1990 United States Census was the most exhaustive in history. The vast majority of census users seek information about local areas, yet they lack examples or methodology texts prepared by experts in the field. This book is dedicated to the needs of these local census data users. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the data and teaches useful methods of analysis, focusing on four major themes: mastering access to the full range of census data, measuring changes over time, comparing places, and demonstrating how different aspects of change fit together. More than a reference book or how-to-manual, the emphasis throughout is on developing a sophisticated, critical understanding of the census.
Key Features
* Provides a comprehensive introduction to the scope of local census data and carefully explains the different variables and sources of data
* Emphasizes how analysis can be conducted to extract maximum use from local data
* Written to coincide with the publication of the 1990 United States Census data
Customer Reviews:
Analysis with Local Census Data.......2000-09-28
This book is clearly written. It is simple yet not simplistic. It would be helpful to the first time researcher as well as those who have manipulated census data before but do not do it for a living. I found useful information on how to best configure my graphs, what pitfalls to avoid and how to handle data that was collected and recorded differently in previous census counts. There is some discussion of analysis and some examples are given but these are not the focus of the book.
Average customer rating:
|
Organizational Dimensions of Global Change: No Limits to Cooperation (Human Dimensions of Global Change series)
Manufacturer: Sage Publications, Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
Strategy & Competition
| Management & Leadership
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Management
| Management & Leadership
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Organizational Behavior
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Economics
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
| Agricultural
| Commercial Policy
| Comparative
| Consolidation & Merger
| Cooperatives
| Debt & Deficits
| Development & Growth
| Econometrics
| Economic Conditions
| Economic History
| Economic Policy & Development
| Exports & Imports
| Free Enterprise
| Inflation
| International
| Labor & Industrial Relations
| Macroeconomics
| Microeconomics
| Money & Monetary Policy
| Natural Resources
| Privatization
| Public Finance
| Statistics
| Sustainable Development
| Theory
| Unemployment
| Urban & Regional
General
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
General
| International
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Ethics
| Business Life
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Small Business & Entrepreneurship
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Psychology & Counseling
| Health, Mind & Body
| Subjects
| Books
| Adolescent Psychology
| Applied Psychology
| By Topic
| Child Psychology
| Clinical Psychology
| Cognitive
| Counseling
| Creativity & Genius
| Developmental Psychology
| Education & Training
| Ethnopsychology
| Experimental Psychology
| Forensic Psychology
| General
| History
| Hypnosis
| Industrial Psychology
| Logotherapy
| Medicine & Psychology
| Mental Illness
| Movements
| Neuropsychology
| Occupational & Organizational
| Pathologies
| Personality
| Philosophy of Psychology
| Physical Illness & Psychiatry
| Physiological Aspects
| Psychiatry
| Psychoanalysis
| Psychobiology
| Psychopharmacology
| Psychosomatic Medicine
| Psychotherapy, TA & NLP
| Reference
| Research
| Sexuality
| Social Psychology & Interactions
| Statistics
| Suicide
| Testing & Measurement
General
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
Research
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
Earth Sciences
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
| Atmospheric Sciences
| Cartography
| Climatology
| Crystallography
| Earthquakes & Volcanoes
| Ecology
| Environmental Science
| General
| Geochemistry
| Geography
| Geology
| Geophysics
| Meteorology
| Mineralogy
| Natural Disasters
| Oceans & Seas
| Prospecting & Mining
| Rivers
| Rocks & Minerals
| Seismology
| Weather
Public Health
| Administration & Policy
| Medicine
| Subjects
| Books
All Titles
| Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007
| Stores
| Books
Business & Investing
| Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007
| Stores
| Books
Medicine
| Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007
| Stores
| Books
Nonfiction
| Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007
| Stores
| Books
Science
| Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007
| Stores
| Books
Similar Items:
-
GlobalWork: Bridging Distance, Culture and Time (The Jossey-Bass Management Series)
-
Global Teams: How Top Multinationals Span Boundaries and Cultures with High-Speed Teamwork
-
Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors
-
Organization Development and Change
-
Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (Open Market Edition)
ASIN: 076191529X
Release Date: 1999-04-29 |
Book Description
Organizational Dimensions of Global Change is the first book in a new series designed to facilitate, across discipline and national boundaries, an emergent dialogue around the issue of global change and cooperative potential. Written by an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars, the book explores how organizational scholarship and thinking can inform an understanding of global change issues and examines the potential of cooperation as a practice, an organizing accomplishment, and as a value for understanding issues of global change. It opens up conversations and research paths and addresses basic questions such as: What do we mean by global change research? What can organizational scholarship contribute to understanding the human dimensions of global change? If we were to offer a priority agenda for research and inquiry, what questions would we be asking and what kinds of research would have a high probability of making a large contribution to knowledge as well as a timely relevance for action? Topics discussed include global women leaders, corporations as agents of global change, international networking, the development of global environmental regimes, and collaborative knowledge creation. Organizational Dimensions of Global Change is an essential resource for students and scholars in the fields of organization and management science, policy studies, international relations and development studies, earth systems science, as well as the disciplines of sociology, economics, anthropology, political science, and psychology.
Book Description
The
Second Edition of
Introduction to Action Research: Social Research for Social Change makes social science matter! It focuses on how it is possible to combine practical problem solving with generating new theoretical insights. Authors Davydd J. Greenwood and Morten Levin combine a thorough discussion of the epistemological foundations of action research with a broad overview of major contemporary trends in the field.
New to the Second Edition:
- Includes a vast amount of updated information: Nine chapters have been significantly updated, including two new chapters that engage readers into the current debates on action research as "tradition" or its own "methodology," and how action research takes shape in the university environment. New textboxes highlight important issues in each chapter and more detailed cases and real-world examples illustrate the practical implications of AR in a variety of settings.
- Incorporates a new structure: New information pertains specifically to issues of techniques, work forms, and research strategies based on the authors’ experiences in using the book in teaching. The book now has 4 parts instead of 3, with an entirely new section on higher education and democracy as a concluding section.
- Emphasizes the skill sets needed to do action research: This book deals with the process of educating action researchers and reviews a number of programs that do this. Specific attention is given to the challenges of writing and intellectual property in AR, and more focus is devoted to both adult and formal education, creating a comprehensive overview of the field that is not found in any other action research book.
Intended Audience:
This is an excellent textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in Action Research, Social Research, and Qualitative Research across the social sciences.
Customer Reviews:
Amazingly thorough...........2007-02-21
....and worth the money spent. I recommend this book to undergrad and graduate students interested in knowing about the history, background, epistemology, and various approaches to research specifically geared for engaged social change.
Introduction to Action Research : Social Research for Social Change.......2006-03-24
The most boring text book I have ever read. info was not well presented
Book Description
Entertainment-Education and Social Change introduces readers to entertainment-education (E-E) literature from multiple perspectives. This distinctive collection covers the history of entertainment-education, its applications in the United States and throughout the world, the multiple communication theories that bear on E-E, and a range of research methods for studying the effects of E-E interventions. The editors include commentary and insights from prominent E-E theoreticians, practitioners, activists, and researchers, representing a wide range of nationalities and theoretical orientations.
Examples of effective E-E designs and applications, as well as an agenda for future E-E initiatives and campaigns, make this work a useful volume for scholars, educators, and practitioners in entertainment media studies, behavior change communications, public health, psychology, social work, and other arenas concerned with strategies for social change. It will be an invaluable resource book for members of governmental and non-profit agencies, public health and development professionals, and social activists.
Average customer rating:
|
Cities Transformed: Demographic Change and Its Implications in the Developing World
Manufacturer: National Academy Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
Demography
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Sociology
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
Urban
| Sociology
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
Statistics
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
Globalization
| Politics
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
All Titles
| Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007
| Stores
| Books
ASIN: 0309088623 |
Customer Reviews:
Single Case Experimental Designs.......2006-04-14
Barlow and Hersen present a thorough revision of a book which has become a classic. The second edition has a completely new invited chapter by Donald P. Hartmann on behavioral assessment, in addition to Alan E Kazdin's chapter on statistical analysis. A special feature of the new edition is expanded material on clinical replication.
--- from book's back cover
Books:
- Applied Mergers and Acquisitions, with CD-ROM (Wiley Finance)
- Asset Pricing: (Revised)
- Banana Wars-The Price of Free Trade: A Caribbean Perspective
- Bargaining With Uncertainty: Decision-Making in Public Health, Technologial Safety, and Environmental Quality
- Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want
- Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
- Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World with CD-ROM
- Challenge of Third World Development, The (4th Edition)
- "China and the New World Order: How Entrepreneurship,Globalization, and Borderless Business Are Reshaping China and the World"
- Color Drawing: Design Drawing Skills and Techniques for Architects, Landscape Architects, and Interior Designers
Books Index
Books Home
Recommended Books
- Shield of Thunder
- Midnight in Death
- Evolutionary Aesthetics
- Handbook of Behavioral Neurobiology, Volume 12: Circadian Clocks
- Inside My Heart: Choosing to Live with Passion and Purpose
- Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings, 10th Edition
- Murder in a Mill Town
- Trade Fair Design Annual 2004/2005: avedition
- Great Houses of New York, 1880-1930
- Let It Bleed
Hierarchical Linear Models: Applications and Data Analysis Methods (Advanced Quantitative Techniques in the Social Sciences)
Multilevel Modeling (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)
Principles and Practice of Structural Equation Modeling, Second Edition (Methodology In The Social Sciences)
Multilevel Analysis: An Introduction to Basic and Advanced Multilevel Modeling
HLM 6: Hierarchical Linear and Nonlinear Modeling
