Research and evaluation in recreation, parks, and leisure studies

Steers a middle course between approaching research and evaluation from a conceptual perpective and presenting them as practical tools essential to successful programming and effective agency management. Chapters 1-4 discuss the professional role, concepts, and language of research and evaluation. Chapters 5-8 cover research design and methodologies. Chapters 9-13 describe the process of developing and conducting studies. Chapters 14 and 15 cover descriptive and inferential statistics. Chapters 16-19 deal with evaluation study design and instruments. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Year

1998

Language

English

Publisher

Allyn and Bacon

Editions

1

Pages

340

ISBN

9780137764693

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