Citation
Kainz, Kirsten; Jensen, Todd M.; & Zimmerman, Sheryl (2018). Cultivating a Research Tool Kit for Social Work Doctoral Education. Journal of Social Work Education, 54(4), 792-807.Abstract
Social work doctoral education can prepare students to become research scholars whose work has impact by providing and promoting the development of an appropriately sophisticated and diverse research methods tool kit. Students can cultivate their tool kits through course work, mentored research experience, and specialized workshops. The tool kit is best grounded in guided reading of methodological texts—that is, reading methodological texts while conferring with advanced peers, faculty, and research supervisors—which provides essential teaching and experiences to enhance understanding and use. This article lays out a rationale for guided reading and provides an example of primer text and recommended readings to support guided reading for one set of related research methods: randomized experimentation and finite mixture modeling.URL
https://doi.org/10.1080/10437797.2018.1434446Reference Type
Journal ArticleYear Published
2018Journal Title
Journal of Social Work EducationAuthor(s)
Kainz, KirstenJensen, Todd M.
Zimmerman, Sheryl