Part I: AN INTRODUCTION TO SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY IN SOCIAL WORK. 1. Why Study Research? 2. Evidence-Informed Practice. 3. Factors Influencing the Research Process. 4. Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods of Inquiry.

Part II: THE ETHICAL, POLITICAL, AND CULTURAL CONTEXT OF SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH. 5. The Ethics and Politics of Social Work Research. 6. Culturally Competent Research. Part III: PROBLEM FORMULATION AND MEASUREMENT. 7. Problem Formulation.

8. Conceptualization in Quantitative and Qualitative Inquiry. 9. Measurement. 10. Constructing Measurement Instruments. Part IV: DESIGNS FOR EVALUATING PROGRAMS AND PRACTICE. 11.

Causal Inference and Experimental Designs. 12. Quasi-Experimental Designs. 13. Single-Case Evaluation Designs. Part V: DATA-COLLECTION METHODS WITH LARGE SOURCES OF DATA. 14. Sampling.

15. Surveys. 16 Secondary Analysis 17Content Analysis and Historical Analysis. Part VI: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS. 18. Qualitative Research: General Principles. 19. Qualitative Research: Specific Methods.

20. Qualitative Data Analysis. Part VII: ANALYSIS OF QUANTITATIVE DATA. 21. Descriptive Data Analysis. 22. Inferential Data Analysis. 23.

Meta-analysis Part VIII: Program Evaluation and Writing Research Proposals and Reports. 24. Program Evaluation. 25. Writing Research Proposals and Reports. Appendix A: Statistics for Estimating Sampling Error.