Selecting Research Methods

W. Paul Vogt is Emeritus Professor of Research Methods and Evaluation at Illinois State University where he won both teaching and research awards. He specializes in methodological choice and program evaluation and is particularly interested in ways to integrate multiple methods. His other books include: Tolerance & Education: Learning to Live with Diversity and Difference (Sage Publications, 1998); Quantitative Research Methods for Professionals (Allyn & Bacon, 2007); Education Programs for Improving Intergroup Relations (coedited with Walter Stephan, Teachers College Press, 2004). He is also editor of four 4-volume sets in the series, Sage Benchmarks in Social Research Methods: Selecting Research Methods (2008); Data Collection (2010); Quantitative Research Methods (2011); and, with Burke Johnson, Correlation and Regression Analysis (2012).His most recent publications include the coauthored When to Use What Research Design (2012) and Selecting the Right Analyses for Your Data: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches (2014).

• VOLUME 1: SELECTING DESIGNS FOR GATHERING EVIDENCEEpistemological Diversity and Education Research: Much ado about nothing much?The Poverty of Deductivism: A Constructive Realist Model Of Sociological Explanation - H. SiegelA Tale Of Two Cultures: Contrasting Quantitative And Qualitative Research - P.S. GorskiWhat Good is Polarizing Research into Qualitative and Quantitative? - J. Mahoney and G. GoertzIntegrating Survey and Ethnographic Methods for Systematic Anomalous Case Analysis - K. Ercikan and W.M. Roth What Works and Why: Combining quantitative and qualitative approaches in large-scale evaluations - L.D. PearceFieldwork, Economic Theory, and Research on Institutions in Developing Countries - I. Plewis and P. MasonThe Benefits of Being There: Evidence from the literature on work - C. UdryMapping the Process: An exemplar of process and challenge in grounded theory analysis - D. Tope, L.J. Chamberlain, M. Crowley and R. HodsonIdentity in Focus: The use of focus groups to study the construction of collective identity - B. Harry, K.M. Sturges and J.K. KlingerRational Choice, Structural Context, and Increasing Returns: A strategy for analytic narrative in historical sociology - J. MundayThe Growth and Development of Experimental Research in Political Science - N. PedrianaThe Logic of The Survey Experiment Reexamined - J.N. Druckman, Donald P. Green, J.H. Kuklinski and A. LupiaThe Role of Randomized Field Trials in Social Science Research - B.J. Gaines, J.H. Kuklinski, and P.J. QuirkNaturally Occurring Preferences and Exogenous Laboratory Experiments: A case study of risk aversion - R.A. MoffittUnderstanding Interaction Models: Improving empirical analysis - G.W. Harrison, J.A. List and C. ToweA Potential Outcomes View of Value-Added Assessment in Education - T. Brambor, W.R. Clark and M. GolderWhat are Value-Added Models Estimating and what does this Imply for Statistical Practice? - D.B. Rubin, E.A. Stuart and E.L. ZanuttoVOLUME 2: METHODS TO SAMPLE, RECRUIT, AND ASSIGN CASES - S.W. RaudenbushRecruitment for a Panel Study of Australian RetireesThe Difficulty of Identifying Rare Samples to Study: The case of schools divided into schools within schools - Y. Wells, W. Petralia, D. Devaus and H. KendigIn Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies - V.E. Lee, D.D. Ready and D.J. JohnsonPopulation Estimation without Censuses or Surveys: A discussion of mark-recapture methods - J. Henrich, R. Boyd, S. Bowles, C. Camerer, E. Fehr, H. Gintis and R. McelreathA Different Kind of Snowball: Identifying Key Policymakers - M. BloorSampling and Estimation in Hidden Populations Using Respondent-Driven Sampling - K. FarquharsonSample Size: More than calculations - M.J. Salganik and D.D. HeckathornSample Size Planning for the Standardized Mean Difference: Accuracy in parameter estimation via narrow confidence intervals - R.A. Parker and N.G. BergmanSufficient Sample Sizes for Multilevel Modeling - K. Kelley and J.R. RauschTwo-Step Hierarchical Estimation: Beyond regression analysis - C.J.M. Maas and J.J. HoxNested Analysis as a Mixed-Method Strategy for Comparative Research - C.H. AchenWhen Can History Be Our Guide? The pitfalls of counterfactual inference - E.S. LiebermanThe Possibility Principle: Choosing negative cases in comparative research - G. King and L. ZengUse of Extreme Groups Approach: A critical reexamination and new recommendations - J. Mahoney and G. GoertzThe Intervention Selection Bias: An underrecognized confound in intervention research - K.J. Preacher, R.C. Maccallum, D. Rucker and W.A. NicewanderGetting the Most from Archived Qualitative Data: Epistemological, practical, and professional obstacles - R.E. Larzelere, B.R. Kuhn and B. JohnsonWhose Data are they Anyway? Practical, legal and ethical issues in archiving qualitative research data - N. FieldingRecording Technologies and the Interview in Sociology, 1920-2000 - O. Parry and N.S. MauthnerToward An Open-Source Methodology: What we can learn from the blogosphere - R.M. LeeDoes Mode Matter for Modeling Political Choice? Evidence from the 2005 british election study - M.M. BlumenthalReaching Migrants in Survey Research: The use of global position system to reduce coverage bias in China - D. Sanders, H.D. Clarke, M.C. Stewart and P. WhitleyVOLUME 3: METHODS FOR CODING & MEASURING DATA - P.E. Landry, and M. ShenCan there be Reliability without "Reliability"?The Meaning and Consequences of "Reliability." - R.J. MislevyMy Current Thoughts on Coefficient Alpha and its Successor Procedures - P.A. MossReliability: Arguments for multiple perspectives and potential problems with generalization across studies - L.J. CronbachReliability: A Rasch Perspective - D.M. DimitrovInstructional Program Coherence: What it is and why it should guide school improvement policy - R.E. Schumacker and E.V. SmithMeasurement Validity: A shared standard for qualitative and quantitative research - F.M. Newman, B. Smith, E. Allensworth and A.S. BrykWhat Good are Statistics that don′t Generalize? - R. Adcock and D. CollierEnhancing the Validity and Cross-Cultural Comparability of Measurement in Survey Research - D.W. Shaffer and R.C. SerlinDeath by Survey: Estimating Adult mortality without selection bias from sibling survival data - G. King, C.J.L. Murray, J.A. Salomon and A. TandonRatings and Rankings: Reconsidering the structure of values and their measurement - E. Gakidou and G. KingA Lot More To Do: The sensitivity of time-series cross-section analyses to simple alternative specifications - S. OvadiaMethods for Testing and Evaluating Survey Questions - S.E. Wilson and D.M. ButlerResearch Synthesis: The practice of cognitive interviewing - S. Presser, M.P. Couper, J.T. Lessler, E. Martin, J. Martin, J.M. Rothgeb and E. SingerPretesting Experimental Instructions - P.C. Beatty and G.B. WillisUse of Exploratory Factor Analysis in Published Research: Common errors and some comment on improved practice - L.S. Rashotte, M. Webster and J.M. WhitmeyerComparing Check-all and Forced-Choice Question Formats in Web Surveys - R.K. Henson and J.K. RobertsHelping Respondents Get it Right the First Time: The influence of words, symbols, and graphics in web surveys - J.D. Smyth, D.A. Dillman, L.M. Christian and M.J. SternAn Assessment of Alternative Measures of Time Use - L.M. Christian, D.A. Dillman and J.D. SmythEvent History Calendars and Question List Surveys: A direct comparison of interviewing methods - F.T. Juster, H. Ono and F.P. StaffordVOLUME 4: METHODS FOR ANALYSING AND REPORTING RESULTS - R.F. Belli, W.L. Shay and F.P. StaffordThe Contribution of Computer Software to Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Data AnalysisWhat do Economists Talk About? A linguistic analysis of published writing in economic journals - P. BazeleyDimension Reduction of Word-Frequency Data as a Substitute for Intersubjective Content Analysis - N. Goldschmidt and B. SzmrecsanyiExtracting Policy Positions from Political Texts Using Words as Data - A.F. Simon and M. XenosTCQA: A Technique For Adding Temporality to Qualitative Comparative Analysis - M. Laver, K. Benoit and J. GarryReducing Complexity in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): Remote and proximate factors and the consolidation of democracy - N. Caren and A. PanofskyFuzzy Sets and Social Research - C.O. Schneider and C. WagemannCausal Complexity and Party Preference - C.C Ragin and P. PenningsRunning a Best-Subsets Logistic Regression: An alternative to stepwise methods - G. GrendstadIntroduction to the Special Issue on Model Selection - J.E. KingConsider Propensity Scores to Compare Treatments - D.L. WeakliemRemarks on the Analysis of Causal Relationships in Population Research - L.M. Rudner and J. PeytonStatistical Inference and Patterns of Inequality in the Global North - R. MoffittGeneralization in Qualitative Research - T.P. MoranThe Difference between ′Significant′ and ′Not Significant′ Is Not Itself Statistically Significant - G. Payne and M. WilliamsReplication with Attention to Numerical Accuracy - A. Gelman and H. SternDiversity in Everyday Research Practice: The case of data editing - M. Altman and M.P. McdonaldWhy We Need a Structured Abstract in Education Research - E. Leahey, B. Entwisle and P. EinaudiStrengthening Structured Abstracts for Education Research: The need for claim-based structured abstracts - F. Mosteller, B. Nave and and E.J. MiechA History of Effect Size Indices - A.E. Kelly and R.K. Yin