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Systematic Reviews in the Social Sciences
eBook - A Practical Guide
ISBN/EAN: 9781405150149
Umbreit-Nr.: 3658120
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 354 S., 3.08 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 15.04.2008
Auflage: 1/2008
E-Book
Format: PDF
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- Such diverse thinkers as Lao-Tze, Confucius, and U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld have all pointed out that we need to be able to tell the difference between real and assumed knowledge. The systematic review is a scientific tool that can help with this difficult task. It can help, for example, with appraising, summarising, and communicating the results and implications of otherwise unmanageable quantities of data.<br /><p>This book, written by two highly-respected social scientists, provides an overview of systematic literature review methods:<br /></p><ul><li style="list-style: none"><br /></li><li>Outlining the rationale and methods of systematic reviews;<br /></li><li>Giving worked examples from social science and other fields;<br /></li><li>Applying the practice to all social science disciplines;<br /></li><li>It requires no previous knowledge, but takes the reader through the process stage by stage;<br /></li><li>Drawing on examples from such diverse fields as psychology, criminology, education, transport, social welfare, public health, and housing and urban policy, among others.<br /></li><li>Including detailed sections on assessing the quality of both quantitative, and qualitative research; searching for evidence in the social sciences;<br /> meta-analytic and other methods of evidence synthesis; publication bias; heterogeneity; and approaches to dissemination.</li></ul>
- Autorenportrait
- <b>Mark Petticrew</b> is an associate director of the MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit at the University of Glasgow, Co-ordinator of the ESRC Centre for Evidence-Based Public Health Policy, and has written widely on systematic reviews.<p><b>Helen Roberts</b> is a social scientist, and professor of Child Health at City University, where she leads the Child Health Research and Policy Unit. Until 2001 she was Head of R&D at Barnardos. Her most recent book is<i>What Works for Children</i> (ed) with Di McNeish and Tony Newman.</p>