Summary
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This book provides researchers, evaluators, and graduate students with a user-friendly presentation of Campbell s essential work (including his latest thoughts on some of his classic works) in social measurement. The book includes Campbell s arguments as to why qualitative approaches belong with quantitative ones as the assumptive background to relevant quantitative measures, his debate with deconstructionists and social constructionists on measurement validity, and an expansion and further explanation of his multitrait-multimethod matrix. By including overviews for each part and article as well as provide social scientists with useful insights into Campbell s papers in a format accessible to advanced undergraduate and graduate students.
Overview of Chapter 12
Overview of Chapter 12
In previous chapters, Campbell emphasized the importance of using qualitative methods to aid in the interpretation and understanding of quantitative findings. In this chapter, he considers the informant, and discusses a study that offers some guidance on how ...
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