Recommendations for a Quant Methods Text?

[i.am.me]

Hello friends,

 

Not sure if this is the appropriate section to ask, but I am trusting that the moderators will redirect me.

 

Would anyone be able to recommend a textbook or guide book on quantitative methods for social science research? A book that they found helpful and straight forward in guiding a grad student towards being literate and maybe even pretty good at completing their own work in quantitative methodology?

 

I'm curious if there are online resources to understanding and conducting quantitative research in the social sciences also.

 

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Oh, I am in Education, specifically being trained under an ethnographer....if that matters.

[Lisa44201]

http://www.amazon.com/Research-Methods-Psychology-Glynis-Breakwell/dp/0857022644

 

Clearly geared towards psych, but may not be too far away from you in Ed. Good overall research book; the quant stuff is very readable. 

[ZeChocMoose]

It is hard to tell whether you are looking for an intermediate book or an advanced book? Advanced books tend to get organized around which models that you are interested in: causal, longitudinal, categorical responses, multivariate, etc.

I am also having a hard time figuring out how comfortable you are with quantitative methods in general. Since your advisor is qualitative, I am assuming that you'll do a qualitative dissertation? That being said, is your goal just to become proficient up until multiple regression? It would be helpful to know whether the motivation to learn quantitative is for your own self knowledge or you hope to do research or teaching in this area in the future.

Edit - just saw that you want to do your own work. I honestly would recommend taking classes. Self study without having basics or intermediate level could be really disastrous especially if you have limited to no experience in these methods. I would say that about qual too! I have seen some really terrible qual studies as well!

Edited September 26, 2013 by ZeChocMoose