Conducting Research Literature Reviews
SAGE Publications Inc (Verlag)
978-1-5443-1847-9 (ISBN)
Offering a step-by-step approach to conducting literature reviews, the Fifth Edition features new research, examples, and references from the social, behavioral, and health sciences, expanded coverage of qualitative research, updated and revised meta-analysis procedures, a brand new glossary of key terms, double the number of exercises, and additional examples of how to write reviews.
Arlene Fink (PhD) is Professor of Medicine and Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles, and president of the Langley Research Institute. Her main interests include evaluation and survey research and the conduct of research literature reviews as well as the evaluation of their quality. Dr. Fink has conducted scores of evaluation studies in public health, medicine, and education. She is on the faculty of UCLA’s Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and is a scientific and evaluation advisor to UCLA’s Gambling Studies and IMPACT (Improving Access, Counseling & Treatment for Californians with Prostate Cancer) programs. She consults nationally and internationally for agencies such as L’institut de Promotion del la Prévention Secondaire en Addictologie (IPPSA) in Paris, France, and Peninsula Health in Victoria, Australia. Professor Fink has taught and lectured extensively all over the world and is the author of more than 130 peer-reviewed articles and 15 textbooks.
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
PART I. Research Design and Sampling
Chapter 1: Reviewing the Literature: Why? For Whom? How?
What is a Research Literature Review? Why Do One?
Gaining Control: Experiments and Observations
Systematic, Explicit, Comprehensive, and Reproducible: Four Key Words
Choosing an Online Bibliographic Database
How Do You Ask for Information? Searching With Boolean Operators
Pausing during the Search
Changing the Course of the Search
Supplementing the Online Search
Organizing the Research Literature: Building a Virtual Filing Cabinet
Chapter 2: Searching and Screening: The Practical Screen and Methodological Quality
Search Screen 1: The Practical Screen
Search Screen 2: Methodological Quality Screening Criteria
Observational Designs in Brief
A Note on Other Designs and Studies: Cross-Sectional Surveys and Consensus Statements
Internal and External Validity
Criterion for Quality: Sampling
The Sampling Unit
The Size of the Sample
Response Rate
PART II. Data Collection, Interventions, Analysis, Results, and Conclusions
Chapter 3: Searching and Screening: Methodological Quality
Data Collection and Data Sources: Methods and Measures
Interventions and Programs: Reviewing the Research Literature to Find out What Works
Data Analysis: Statistical Methods in the Research Literature
Accounting for Impact
Chapter 4: Doing the Review: A Reader’s Guide Chapter
Types of Information: Methods and Content
Eligibility and Actuality
Reporting Standards: Checklists for Research Writing and Reviewing
How TREND Was Used in a Literature Review
Reliable and Valid Reviews
Uniform Data Collection: The Literature Review Survey Questionnaire
Uniform Data Collection: Definitions and More
Pilot Testing the Review Process
Establishing Validity
Monitoring Quality
Chapter 5: What Did You Find? Synthesizing Results
Now that You Have Done It, What Do You Do With It?
Descriptive Syntheses or Reviews
Meta-Synthesis
Meta-Analysis
Meta-Analyses in Practice: Examples
Glossary
Author Index
Subject Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.01.2019 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Thousand Oaks |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 228 mm |
| Gewicht | 440 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5443-1847-2 / 1544318472 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5443-1847-9 / 9781544318479 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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