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Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Pt. 1. Before we begin: 1. Introduction -- 2. Social research: the debate today -- Pt. 2. Planning your research: 3. What do you want to study and why? -- 4. Planning research that describes -- 5. Planning research that explains and predicts -- 6. Whom will you study? -- Pt. 3. Research techniques: the basic tools: 7. Selecting your techniques and strategies -- 8. Using what is already available -- 9. Surveys -- 10. Measures, scales, and indices -- 11. Unstructured and semistructured interviews -- 12. Two qualitative strategies: case studies and participant observation -- 13. Other qualitative approaches -- 14. Rapid assessment and participatory learning approaches -- 15. Recording and organizing qualitative information -- Pt. 4. Working with your results: 16. Qualitative analysis -- 17. Quantitative analysis -- 18. Presenting your results -- 19. Epilogue: What next? -- Appendix 1. Sample research outline -- Appendix 2. Grid approach for assessing a situation or evaluating a project -- Appendix 3. Some measures, scales, and indices used to study girls' education -- Bibliography -- Index

This book reflects a new dimension in the Bank ' s efforts to create effective strategies for girls ' education. It recognizes the need to reach deeper into the community and to draw upon local participation to help produce reliable, timely, and culturally sensitive information on issues and priorities. But in many developing countries, research capacity is limited. This handbook is designed for people who do not have professsional training in research, but who understand the issues and have important local knowledge. It provides a how to for school-level personnel, concerned parents, ministry officials, nongovernmental organizations active in education, and others who want to join as partners in helping to reap the economic and social benefits that arise from educating girls.