Research Methods and Applications for Student Affairs

Acknowledgments

I love teaching research methods. I try to show my enthusiasm in every class, advising meeting, presentation, and conversation I have related to research. I truly enjoy helping others identify a research problem, specify and operationalize questions, and consider ways to answer those questions. I hope that the lessons I learned while helping others come through in this book.

Writing a textbook about research for a field that does not have one was challenging. Often, I had to make decisions about terminology, practices, and applications that the field has not formally codified. I drew on my familiarity with the existing research base, frequent discussions with colleagues across the country, and literature in the interdisciplinary ...