The SWK 340: Social Work Research Methods OER Collection is a collection of course materials that Dr. Erin Stevenson adapted from the open access textbook Scientific Inquiry in Social Work, by Dr. Matthew DeCarlo, for use in her course SWK 340 Social Work Research Methods at Eastern Kentucky University. Assignments were adapted from the original assignments suggested by textbook author Dr. Matthew DeCarlo.
The course materials in this collection are openly licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) and are freely available for reuse or further adaptation. For ease of adapting, materials are available as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Powerpoint documents.
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Scientific Inquiry in Social Work [Textbook]
Matthew DeCarlo
As an introductory textbook for social work students studying research methods, this book guides students through the process of creating a research project. Students will learn how to discover a researchable topic that is interesting to them, examine scholarly literature, formulate a proper research question, design a quantitative or qualitative study to answer their question, carry out the design, interpret quantitative or qualitative results, and disseminate their findings to a variety of audiences. Examples are drawn from the author's practice and research experience, as well as topical articles from the literature. The textbook is aligned with the Council on Social Work Education's 2015 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards.
