SAGE Journal Articles

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Journal Article 14.1: Guo, S. (2015). Shaping Social Work Science: What Should Quantitative Researchers Do? Research on Social Work Practice, 25(3), 370–381.

Questions that apply to this article:

  1. How is social work research perceived when compared to other social sciences?
  2. How can quantitative methods improve our ability to help others through policy?
  3. What does the author advise in the conclusions?

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Journal Article 14.2: Kandel, S., Heer, J., Plaisant, C., Kennedy, J., van Ham, F., Riche, N.H., Weaver, C., Lee, B., Brodbeck, D., & Buono, P. (2011). Research Directions in Data Wrangling: Visualizations and Transformations for Usable and Credible Data. Information Visualization, 10(4), 271–288.

Questions that apply to this article:

  1. Discuss the process of transforming data.
  2. How are multiple data sets integrated?
  3. How can visualizing raw data help researchers gain insight about data errors?
  4. How are erroneous values corrected?

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Journal Article 14.3: Magis, D., & De Boeck, P. (2012). A Robust Outlier Approach to Prevent Type I Error Inflation in Differential Item Functioning. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 72(2), 291–311.

Questions that apply to this article:

  1. Discuss the outlier detection approach.
  2. Describe type I errors and power.
  3. What are robust statistics?
  4. What is the Type I error inflation effect?