01503nam a22001697a 4500 120628t xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0136942415 HV11.P67 Powers Gerald T. Practice focused research: Intergrating human service practice research. / Gerald T. Powers, Thomas M. Meenaghan and Beverly G. Toomey New York: Prentice -Hall, 1985. xv,335 p.: ill.; 24cm. Contents: Introduction: The Scientific process and promoting informed practice -- A Practice-research analog: Part one, the process of practice -- A Practice-research analog: Part two, the process of research -- Practice questions, accountability and research functions for practitioners in human service -- The Library and its resources -- Accessing special sources of available information -- Instrumentation and data collection methods -- Achieving precision in practice: collecting and ordering information -- The Visual presentation of data -- Describing and computing the associations of variables in practice -- Group designs: A Program evaluation exemplar -- Practitioner assessment: single case methods -- Making Inferences: Samples, probaility, and testing -- Testing the significance of difference in practice -- Preparing a report in the human service context -- Difficulties in operanalizing informed practice: The human elements -- Appendices. Thomas M. Meenaghan Beverly G. Toomey lcc BK 1604 9104 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-1 WIUC-1 GEN 2012-06-28 0 HV11.P67 4158/12 2012-06-28 00:00:00 1 2012-06-28 BK