Investigating the implementation of a school-based literacy intervention programme: A case of grade one isiXhosa speaking learners in the Western Cape

TL;DR: This book offers a vast amount of information to the beginning researcher or to professionals interested in reviewing studies with a more critical eye, and is an appropriate reference book for the clinician.

Abstract: Introduction Jack Goody 1. The consequences of literacy Jack Goody and Ian Watt 2. Implications of literacy in traditional China and India Kathleen Gough 3. Literacy in a Buddhist village in North-East Thailand S. J. Tambiah 4. Literacy in Kerala Kathleen Gough 5. The transmission of Islamic learning in the Western Sudan Ivor Wilks 6. Restricted literacy in Northern Ghana Jack Goody 7. Literacy in a Nomadic Society: the Somali case I. M. Lewiss 8. Astrology and writing in Madagascar Maurice Bloch 9. Uses of literacy in New Guinea and Melanesia M. Meggitt 10. The measurement of literacy in pre-industrial England R. S. Schofield Bibliography Index.

TL;DR: While Research and Evaluation in Education and Psychology (3rd ed.) by Donna M. Mertens (2010) is a beginning research text, in many ways it is advanced in its approach to research design.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present findings of a study revolving around the policy statement, its interpretation, and implementation by classroom teachers, head teachers, and quality assurance and standards officers (QASOS).

TL;DR: This book offers a vast amount of information to the beginning researcher or to professionals interested in reviewing studies with a more critical eye, and is an appropriate reference book for the clinician.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors randomly assigned 4-year-olds attending Head Start to an intervention condition, involving an add-on emergent literacy curriculum, or a control condition involving the regular Head Start curriculum.

TL;DR: In this paper, a Selective Introduction to Logic and Set Theory for Social Scientists is presented, with a focus on within-case versus cross-case Causal Analysis and case selection and hypothesis testing.

Abstract: This book is an illuminating read for anybody interested in bridging the gap between academic and commercial research, and similarly anybody interested in understanding some of the key differences that underpin qualitative and quantitative research . Goertz and Mahoney focus on the nature of qualitative and quantitative research in order to understand the overlaps and differences . The key focus of the book relates to the different ways in which causal relationships are investigated by qualitative and quantitative researchers . It is important to see this book in its correct context, i .e . as an exploration and explication of an important topic . The book is not a guide for action or a manual for producing better research, its focus is on creating a better understanding of things that are more often done than understood . The book establishes that qualitative and quantitative are different, that they reflect different cultures, and that they differ in the compromises they are prepared to make in order to establish causal links between phenomena . Indeed, for me, the key point that arises from the book is that every research approach represents a tradeoff . All of the available approaches have significant drawbacks, and the cultural differences between qualitative and quantitative research are illustrated by which elements are preserved and which sacrificed, when making these trade-offs .