Preface Goals and Approach of the Book Organization Pedagogy Tips for Studying Research Methods Course Acknowledgements About the Author Part I: Scientific Inquiry in Child and Youth Care Work Chapter 1: The Importance of Research Chapter 2: Evidence-Based Practice Chapter 3: Philosophies and Theories in Child and Youth Care Work Part II: The Ethical, Political, and Cultural Context of Child and Youth Care Research Chapter 4: The Ethics and Politics of Child and Youth Care Research Chapter 5: Culturally Competent Research Part III: Problem Formulation and Measurement Chapter 6: Problem Formulation Chapter 7: Conceptualization and Formulation Chapter 8: Measurement Part IV: Data-Collection Methods for Large Data Sources Chapter 9: Populations and Sampling Chapter 10: Survey Research Chapter 11: Analyzing Existing Data: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods Part V: Designs for Evaluating Programs and Practice Chapter 12: Experiments and Quasi-Experiments Chapter 13: Program Evaluation Part VI: Descriptive Statistics Chapter 14: Descriptive Statistics Part VII: Probability and Probability Distributions Chapter 15: Probability and Probability Distributions Part VIII: More on Working with Quantitative Data and Qualitative Data Chapter 16: Inferential Statistics Chapter 17: More on Qualitative Research Methods Part IX: Special Topics Chapter 18: Research with Infants and Pre-Verbal Children Chapter 19: Research with Child, Youth and Primary Caregivers with Disabilities Chapter 20: Community Engaged Research Glossary of Terms Index.