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Using secondary data in educational and social research /

Discusses about using secondary data in social and educational research. This book considers the role of secondary data analysis as a research method in contemporary social research. It introduces worked examples which show the potential for using secondary sources to answer a varied range of resear...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Emma
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Maidenhead ; New York, NY : McGraw Hill/Open University Press, ©2008.
Colección:Conducting educational research.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front cover; Half Title page; Series Editor; Title page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Part I; Chapter 1: Secondary data analysis: an introduction; Chapter 2: Pitfalls of secondary data analysis; Chapter 3: Promises of secondary data analysis; Chapter 4: Doing secondary analysis; Part II; Chapter 5: Sure Start and leisure habits: secondary analysis of aggregate data; Chapter 6: Traffic jams and gap years: secondary analysis of survey data; Chapter 7: From PISA to California: secondary analysis of international data; Part III; Chapter 8: Endpiece.
  • Appendix 1: Sources of secondary dataAppendix 2: Effective data husbandry: managing secondary datasets; Appendix 3: Accessing the Economic and Social Data Service; References; Index; Back cover.