Using Microsoft Excel for Social Research - Softcover

Brookfield, Charlotte

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1526468344 ISBN 13: 9781526468345

Verlag: SAGE Publishing Ltd, 2021

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Providing step-by-step instructions for how to use Microsoft Excel for doing statistics, Charlotte Brookfield discusses different stages of the research process, from first planning to writing and presenting your research. With a focus on conducting robust data analysis, the book is reassuring, clear and straightforward, helping you to:  

·       Learn important data skills, such as preparing, cleaning and managing data

·       Reduce anxiety about approaching statistics and quantitative data

·       Boost your employability, demonstrating how to develop transferable skills like effective time management

Whether you’re learning data skills for the first time or translating your statistics knowledge from other software, this book will help you successfully carry out social research in any setting with confidence, via an engaging pedagogy that includes: Colour-coded chapters by difficulty, activities, 'Remember' boxes, further reading and skills checklists.

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Charlotte Brookfield is a Reader at Cardiff University's School of Social Sciences. Charlotte is based in the Cardiff Q-Step Centre of Excellence in Quantitative Methods Teaching and Learning. The Centre is one of eighteen across the UK which aim to enhance the quantitative research methods training experience for social science students. The pedagogic activities of the Centre have influenced Charlotte's research interests and in particular, she is interested in exploring the extent to which British sociology engages with quantitative approaches and the possible factors that may contribute toward sociology students' resistance to study and use quantitative techniques.

Charlotte teaches on a range of research methods and substantive modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Specifically, she convenes the Real World Research Placement module, where students are afforded the opportunity to put into practice the quantitative skills they have acquired in lectures in a local work organisation. Organisations involved in this module include the Welsh Government, the Welsh Blood Service and the Welsh Wheelchair Basketball Association. It was through leading this module that Charlotte came to realise the necessity for social science students and graduates to have a greater familiarity with Microsoft Excel.

In her spare time, Charlotte enjoys baking and crafting.

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Packed with practical advice and real-world examples, this step-by-step guide is an accessible introduction to doing quantitative social research using Microsoft Excel.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: SAGE Publishing Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1526468344
• ISBN 13: 9781526468345
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland