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Research on Social Work Practice, Vol. 14, No. 1, 51-56 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1049731503257880

Research Awards in the Society for Social Work and Research, 1996-2000

Carlton D. Craig

University of Kentucky

Patricia G. Cook

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Mark W. Fraser

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

In 1995, the Society for Social Work and Research developed an awards program for outstanding social work research scholarship. The purpose of this study is to describe 5 years of exemplary social work research. This article presents the results of a document analysis of 299 journal articles nominated for outstanding research awards between 1996 and 2000. Articles were rated on a variety of characteristics such as research design, method, and analysis strategy. The authors found that survey methods predominate among nominated articles. However, half the award-winning articles described studies involving experimental or comparison groups and the design of interventions. Compared with survey methods, intervention research, which should obtain high priority in a practice profession, is less frequently nominated. Similarly, compared with quantitative methods, qualitative articles, which hold potential for informing practice, are less frequently nominated. Profiling exemplary research can be useful for understanding the current status of social work research.

Key Words: social work research • research methods


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