Cultivating a Research Tool Kit for Social Work Doctoral Education

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 expe...

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Published inJournal of social work education Vol. 54; no. 4; pp. 792 - 807
Main Authors Kainz, Kirsten, Jensen, Todd, Zimmerman, Sheryl
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Routledge 02.10.2018
Taylor & Francis, Ltd
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
College faculty
Doctoral Programs
Experiments
Graduate Students
Graduate studies
Peers
Professional training
Reading comprehension
Research Methodology
Research Skills
Skill Development
Social research
Social Science Research
Social Work
Social work education
SPECIAL SECTION
Student Research
Supervisors
Teaching
Workshops
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1043-7797
2163-5811
DOI:10.1080/10437797.2018.1434446