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Research and Design for Emergency Services
OER Textbook remixed for use in ESA 420: Research and Design for Emergency Services offered at Arapahoe Community College.
- Author
- Peter Loebach
- Publisher
- Arapahoe Community College
- Source
- LibreTexts
- Language
- EN
- Category
- Basic Sciences
Contents· 33 sections
- 01: Science and Scientific Research
- 1.01: Science
- 1.02: Scientific Knowledge
- 1.03: Scientific Research
- 1.04: Scientific Method
- 02: Ethics in Research
- 2.01: Research on Humans
- 2.02: Ethical Issues to Consider
- 2.03: Ethics at micro meso and macro levels
- 2.04: The practice of science versus the uses of science
- 2.05: Linking Methods with Theory- Micro meso and macro approaches
- 03: Design and Causality
- 3.01: Types of research
- 3.02: Causal relationships
- 3.03: Unit of analysis and unit of observation
- 04: Reading and Evaluating Literature
- 4.01: Reading an empirical journal article
- 4.02: Evaluating sources
- 4.03: Refining your question
- 05: Defining and measuring concepts
- 5.01: Measurement
- 5.02: Conceptualization
- 5.03: Operationalization
- 5.04: Measurement quality
- 5.05: Complexities in quantitative measurement
- 06: Sampling
- 6.01: The Sampling Process
- 6.02: Probability Sampling
- 6.03: Non-Probability Sampling
- 6.04: Statistics of Sampling
- 07: Survey Research
- 7.01: Questionnaire Surveys
- 7.02: Interview Survey