VOLUME 1: SELECTING DESIGNS FOR GATHERING EVIDENCE Epistemological Diversity and Education Research: Much ado about nothing much? The Poverty of Deductivism: A Constructive Realist Model Of Sociological Explanation - H. Siegel A Tale Of Two Cultures: Contrasting Quantitative And Qualitative Research - P.S. Gorski What Good is Polarizing Research into Qualitative and Quantitative? - J. Mahoney and G. Goertz Integrating Survey and Ethnographic Methods for Systematic Anomalous Case Analysis - K. Ercikan and W.M. Roth What Works and Why: Combining quantitative and qualitative approaches in large-scale evaluations - L.D. Pearce Fieldwork, Economic Theory, and Research on Institutions in Developing Countries - I. Plewis and P. Mason The Benefits of Being There: Evidence from the literature on work - C. Udry Mapping the Process: An exemplar of process and challenge in grounded theory analysis - D. Tope, L.J. Chamberlain, M. Crowley and R. Hodson Identity in Focus: The use of focus groups to study the construction of collective identity - B. Harry, K.M. Sturges and J.K. Klinger Rational Choice, Structural Context, and Increasing Returns: A strategy for analytic narrative in historical sociology - J. Munday The Growth and Development of Experimental Research in Political Science - N. Pedriana The Logic of The Survey Experiment Reexamined - J.N. Druckman, Donald P. Green, J.H. Kuklinski and A. Lupia The Role of Randomized Field Trials in Social Science Research - B.J. Gaines, J.H. Kuklinski, and P.J. Quirk Naturally Occurring Preferences and Exogenous Laboratory Experiments: A case study of risk aversion - R.A. Moffitt Understanding Interaction Models: Improving empirical analysis - G.W. Harrison, J.A. List and C. Towe A Potential Outcomes View of Value-Added Assessment in Education - T. Brambor, W.R. Clark and M. Golder What are Value-Added Models Estimating and what does this Imply for Statistical Practice? - D.B. Rubin, E.A. Stuart and E.L. Zanutto VOLUME 2: METHODS TO SAMPLE, RECRUIT, AND ASSIGN CASES - S.W. Raudenbush Recruitment for a Panel Study of Australian Retirees The Difficulty of Identifying Rare Samples to Study: The case of schools divided into schools within schools - Y. Wells, W. Petralia, D. Devaus and H. Kendig In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies - V.E. Lee, D.D. Ready and D.J. Johnson Population Estimation without Censuses or Surveys: A discussion of mark-recapture methods - J. Henrich, R. Boyd, S. Bowles, C. Camerer, E. Fehr, H. Gintis and R. Mcelreath A Different Kind of Snowball: Identifying Key Policymakers - M. Bloor Sampling and Estimation in Hidden Populations Using Respondent-Driven Sampling - K. Farquharson Sample Size: More than calculations - M.J. Salganik and D.D. Heckathorn Sample Size Planning for the Standardized Mean Difference: Accuracy in parameter estimation via narrow confidence intervals - R.A. Parker and N.G. Bergman Sufficient Sample Sizes for Multilevel Modeling - K. Kelley and J.R. Rausch Two-Step Hierarchical Estimation: Beyond regression analysis - C.J.M. Maas and J.J. Hox Nested Analysis as a Mixed-Method Strategy for Comparative Research - C.H. Achen When Can History Be Our Guide? The pitfalls of counterfactual inference - E.S. Lieberman The Possibility Principle: Choosing negative cases in comparative research - G. King and L. Zeng Use of Extreme Groups Approach: A critical reexamination and new recommendations - J. Mahoney and G. Goertz The Intervention Selection Bias: An underrecognized confound in intervention research - K.J. Preacher, R.C. Maccallum, D. Rucker and W.A. Nicewander Getting the Most from Archived Qualitative Data: Epistemological, practical, and professional obstacles - R.E. Larzelere, B.R. Kuhn and B. Johnson Whose Data are they Anyway? Practical, legal and ethical issues in archiving qualitative research data - N. Fielding Recording Technologies and the Interview in Sociology, 1920-2000 - O. Parry and N.S. Mauthner Toward An Open-Source Methodology: What we can learn from the blogosphere - R.M. Lee Does Mode Matter for Modeling Political Choice? Evidence from the 2005 british election study - M.M. Blumenthal Reaching Migrants in Survey Research: The use of global position system to reduce coverage bias in China - D. Sanders, H.D. Clarke, M.C. Stewart and P. Whitley VOLUME 3: METHODS FOR CODING & MEASURING DATA - P.E. Landry, and M. Shen Can there be Reliability without "Reliability"? The Meaning and Consequences of "Reliability." - R.J. Mislevy My Current Thoughts on Coefficient Alpha and its Successor Procedures - P.A. Moss Reliability: Arguments for multiple perspectives and potential problems with generalization across studies - L.J. Cronbach Reliability: A Rasch Perspective - D.M. Dimitrov Instructional Program Coherence: What it is and why it should guide school improvement policy - R.E. Schumacker and E.V. Smith Measurement Validity: A shared standard for qualitative and quantitative research - F.M. Newman, B. Smith, E. Allensworth and A.S. Bryk What Good are Statistics that don't Generalize? - R. Adcock and D. Collier Enhancing the Validity and Cross-Cultural Comparability of Measurement in Survey Research - D.W. Shaffer and R.C. Serlin Death by Survey: Estimating Adult mortality without selection bias from sibling survival data - G. King, C.J.L. Murray, J.A. Salomon and A. Tandon Ratings and Rankings: Reconsidering the structure of values and their measurement - E. Gakidou and G. King A Lot More To Do: The sensitivity of time-series cross-section analyses to simple alternative specifications - S. Ovadia Methods for Testing and Evaluating Survey Questions - S.E. Wilson and D.M. Butler Research Synthesis: The practice of cognitive interviewing - S. Presser, M.P. Couper, J.T. Lessler, E. Martin, J. Martin, J.M. Rothgeb and E. Singer Pretesting Experimental Instructions - P.C. Beatty and G.B. Willis Use of Exploratory Factor Analysis in Published Research: Common errors and some comment on improved practice - L.S. Rashotte, M. Webster and J.M. Whitmeyer Comparing Check-all and Forced-Choice Question Formats in Web Surveys - R.K. Henson and J.K. Roberts Helping Respondents Get it Right the First Time: The influence of words, symbols, and graphics in web surveys - J.D. Smyth, D.A. Dillman, L.M. Christian and M.J. Stern An Assessment of Alternative Measures of Time Use - L.M. Christian, D.A. Dillman and J.D. Smyth Event History Calendars and Question List Surveys: A direct comparison of interviewing methods - F.T. Juster, H. Ono and F.P. Stafford VOLUME 4: METHODS FOR ANALYSING AND REPORTING RESULTS - R.F. Belli, W.L. Shay and F.P. Stafford The Contribution of Computer Software to Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Data Analysis What do Economists Talk About? A linguistic analysis of published writing in economic journals - P. Bazeley Dimension Reduction of Word-Frequency Data as a Substitute for Intersubjective Content Analysis - N. Goldschmidt and B. Szmrecsanyi Extracting Policy Positions from Political Texts Using Words as Data - A.F. Simon and M. Xenos TCQA: A Technique For Adding Temporality to Qualitative Comparative Analysis - M. Laver, K. Benoit and J. Garry Reducing Complexity in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): Remote and proximate factors and the consolidation of democracy - N. Caren and A. Panofsky Fuzzy Sets and Social Research - C.O. Schneider and C. Wagemann Causal Complexity and Party Preference - C.C Ragin and P. Pennings Running a Best-Subsets Logistic Regression: An alternative to stepwise methods - G. Grendstad Introduction to the Special Issue on Model Selection - J.E. King Consider Propensity Scores to Compare Treatments - D.L. Weakliem Remarks on the Analysis of Causal Relationships in Population Research - L.M. Rudner and J. Peyton Statistical Inference and Patterns of Inequality in the Global North - R. Moffitt Generalization in Qualitative Research - T.P. Moran The Difference between 'Significant' and 'Not Significant' Is Not Itself Statistically Significant - G. Payne and M. Williams Replication with Attention to Numerical Accuracy - A. Gelman and H. Stern Diversity in Everyday Research Practice: The case of data editing - M. Altman and M.P. Mcdonald Why We Need a Structured Abstract in Education Research - E. Leahey, B. Entwisle and P. Einaudi Strengthening Structured Abstracts for Education Research: The need for claim-based structured abstracts - F. Mosteller, B. Nave and and E.J. Miech A History of Effect Size Indices - A.E. Kelly and R.K. Yin
