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LSE Summer Methods Programme, 13th August – 24th August 2012

We are delighted to announce the launch of the new LSE Methods Summer Programme in August 2012. Ideally suited for students, postgraduate students,…

Methodology and Method of My Research

This chapter shows overall framework of my research so I am trying to show my research according to my research methodology. This chapter presents my research methodology, research method, quality standards of my…

This just in... Have you created a Methods List on SAGE Research Methods and wanted to share it with just a select few students or collaborators?  Now you can!  After you create a list, go into the list and select the "Share list" link.  You will open a light box that will allow you to send the list to anyone you want to see it:

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I would love to hear from anyone doing or planning to do research on Teacher Identity.

When I started writing this blog, I was planning to add a post every other week - or every week, even. To write a few lines - surely this fits in anywhere, anytime - doesn't it? But I suppose that the human capacity for self-deception is endless and that academics are no exception... And this is why it has been three weeks (three weeks??) since the last post. But I will keep it up, even if at longer intervals.

Today I want to focus not so much on what QCA can, as on what it cannot do.…

Someone posed me this question:

Some of my research, if not all of it (:-S) will use multiple correlations. I'm now only considering those correlations that are less than .001. However, having looked at bonferroni corrections today - testing 49 correlations require an alpha level of something lower than 0.001. So essentially meaning that correlations have to be significant at .000. Am I correct on this? The calculator that I am using from the…

The University of Florida is now offering online courses on research methods in anthropology.

The first two courses, offered in May-June of 2012, are Text Analysis in Cultural Anthropology (taught by Clarence Gravlee and Amber Wutich) and Geospatial Analysis in Cultural Anthropology (taught by Eduardo Brondizio and Tracy Van Holt).



For more information and to enroll, go here:



http://rma.distance.ufl.edu



Or contact…

This blog was published recently showing that the use of R continues to grow in academia. One of the graphs (Figure 1) showed citations (using google scholar) of different statistical packages in academic papers (to which I have added annotations).…

For those of you attending the AERA Annual Meeting in Vancouver #AERA2012, please come by and visit me at the SAGE booth!  I will be doing demos for SAGE Research Methods.  See a demo or fill out a survey for a chance to win a Kindle 3G!  We are…

For those of you attending the AERA Annual Meeting in Vancouver #AERA2012, please come by and visit me at the SAGE booth!  I will be doing demos for SAGE Research Methods.  See a demo or fill out a survey for a chance to win a Kindle 3G!  We are…

Truth to tell, I had not exactly planned to write another blog entry today. Easter is almost here - time to walk outside in the sunshine, sip a coffee and watch people walking by, chat with friends, maybe paint an egg or two... But: The sky is grey, it is freezing cold, and the last thing I would want to do is sit outside. Much better to finish telling you about how to assess symbol visibility using qualitative content analysis - before that first post has slipped everybody's mind, including…

Readers  may be interested in a new  page on my website dedicated to the late…

I’ve been thinking about writing a blog on one-tailed tests for a while. The reason is that one of the changes I’m making in my re-write of DSUS4 is to alter the way I talk about one-tailed tests. You might wonder why I would want to alter something like that – surely if it was good enough for the third edition then it’s good enough for the fourth? Textbook writing is quite an interesting process because when I wrote the first edition, I was very much younger, and to some extent the content…

On Monday, I attended an excellent conference at the British Academy on Quantitative Skills, with a focus on international comparisons. The main question posed by the conference was, ‘How well trained are UK social science students in quantitative skills?’ The resounding answer was ‘Not very well’!

The conference examined some of the reasons for this, starting with secondary education. In a survey of 24 countries, England, Wales and Northern Ireland were the only…

I write about qualitative content analysis, I teach qualitative content analysis, I supervise work using qualitative content analysis - and I have many students approach me with the problems they run into when using the method. So why not - blog about qualitative content analysis as well? And what better place to do so than Methodspace? (which I joined more than a year ago, but which, I must admit, I have not been back to for a while - but this is about to change...)

So this is the…

Like buses, you don’t get a blog for weeks and then two come at once. I saw today this headline: Does listening to rock make you racist? Seven minutes of Bruce Springsteen makes students favour white people over others in the daily mail online. They also included a helpful picture of Scott Weiland wearing a…

****Warning, some bad language used: don't read if you're offended by that sort of thing****

I haven’t done a blog in a while, so I figured I ought to. Having joined Twitter a while back, I now find myself suffering from TwitterPanic™, which is an anxiety disorder (I fully anticipate to be part of DSM-V) characterised by a profound fear that people will unfollow you unless you keep posting things to remind them of why it’s great to follow you. In the past few weeks I have posted a…

Discourse, Power, Resistance DPR 12 Conference 2-4 April 2012 Posted on behalf of the DPR team:

CALL FOR PAPERS: TIME TO SEND YOUR ABSTRACT IN! http://ning.it/ApWlBA

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DPR12: Discourse, Power, Resistance – Impact



2-4 April, 2012 University of Plymouth, UK



Impact – What Impact?



Does anything we do or say make any difference at all? That’s a desperate question; but it represents…

We've added a new Realities toolkit to our website: Using diaries in research with people with dementia by Ruth Bartlett at University of Southampton. It describes her research which used written, photo and oral diaries in participatory research with people with dementia. A great introduction to the practical side of using this approach in your research!…

"Dual process" theories of reasoning -- which have been around for a long time in social psychology -- posit (for the sake of forming and testing hypotheses; positing for any other purpose is obnoxious) that there is an important distinction between two types of mental operations.

Very generally, one of these involves largely unconscious, intuitive reasoning and the other conscious,…