Seeing for yourself : research handbook for girls' education in Africa /
This book reflects a new dimension in the Bank ' s efforts to create effective strategies for girls ' education. It recognizes the need to reach deeper into the community and to draw upon local participation to help produce reliable, timely, and culturally sensitive information on issues a...
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Washington, D.C. :
World Bank. Economic Development Institute,
1995
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Pt. 1. Before we begin: 1. Introduction
- 2. Social research: the debate today
- Pt. 2. Planning your research: 3. What do you want to study and why?
- 4. Planning research that describes
- 5. Planning research that explains and predicts
- 6. Whom will you study?
- Pt. 3. Research techniques: the basic tools: 7. Selecting your techniques and strategies
- 8. Using what is already available
- 9. Surveys
- 10. Measures, scales, and indices
- 11. Unstructured and semistructured interviews
- 12. Two qualitative strategies: case studies and participant observation
- 13. Other qualitative approaches
- 14. Rapid assessment and participatory learning approaches
- 15. Recording and organizing qualitative information
- Pt. 4. Working with your results: 16. Qualitative analysis
- 17. Quantitative analysis
- 18. Presenting your results
- 19. Epilogue: What next?
- Appendix 1. Sample research outline
- Appendix 2. Grid approach for assessing a situation or evaluating a project
- Appendix 3. Some measures, scales, and indices used to study girls' education
- Bibliography
- Index