Bill Trochim

Bill Trochim's center for social research methods

Behfar, K., Peterson, R.S., Mannix, E.A. and Trochim, W. (2008). The Critical Role of Conflict Resolution in Teams: A Close Look at the Links Between Conflict Type, Conflict Management Strategies, and Team Outcomes. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93, 1, 170-188. Also available on Dr. Trochim's Research Methods website and the American Psychological Association's PsycNet website.

Trochim, W.M., Marcus, S.E., Masse, L.C., Moser, R.P., Weld, P.C. (2008). The Evaluation of Large Research Initiatives: A Participatory Integrative Mixed-Methods Approach. American Journal of Evaluation, Mar 2008; vol. 29: pp. 8-28. Also available on Dr. Trochim's Research Methods website and Sage Journals Online.

Robinson, JaMuir M. and W.M.K. Trochim (November 2007). An Examination of Community Members', Researchers' and Health Professionals' Perceptions of Barriers to Minority Participation in Medical Research: An Application of Concept Mapping Ethnicity and Health, Vol. 12, No. 5, pp.521-539.

Greater Than the Sum: Systems Thinking in Tobacco Control
A. Best, P. Clark, S. Leischow and W. Trochim (Eds.) (2007). Part of the National Cancer Institute's Tobacco Control Series: Smoking and Tobacco Control Monograph 18: Greater Than the Sum: Systems Thinking in Tobacco Control. Print copies can be ordered here.

Research Methods Knowledge Base
Trochim, W. and J. Donnelly (2007). The Research Methods Knowledge Base is a comprehensive web-based textbook that addresses all of the topics in a typical introductory undergraduate or graduate course in social research methods. Print copies of the most recent edition, The Research Methods Knowledge Base, 3e, can be ordered here.

Introduction to Concept Mapping
Trochim, W. (1989). An introduction to concept mapping for planning and evaluation. In W. Trochim (Ed.) A Special Issue of Evaluation and Program Planning, 12, 1-16.

Concept Mapping: Soft Science or Hard Art?
Trochim, W. (1989). Concept mapping: Soft science or hard art? In W. Trochim (Ed.) A Special Issue of Evaluation and Program Planning, 12, 87-110.

The Reliability of Concept Mapping
Trochim, W. Reliability of Concept Mapping. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Evaluation Association, Dallas, Texas, November, 1993.

Concept Mapping in Mental Health
Trochim, W., Cook, J. and Setze, R. (1994). Using concept mapping to develop a conceptual framework of staff's views of a supported employment program for persons with severe mental illness. Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 62, 4, 766-775.

Using Concept Mapping to Establish Workforce Competencies for Psychosocial Rehabilitation Workers
Trochim, W. and Cook, J. (1993).Workforce Competencies for Psychosocial Rehabilitation Workers: A Concept Mapping Project, Final Report for the Conference of The International Association of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services, Albuquerque, New Mexico, November 11-12, 1993

Jackson, K. and Trochim, W. (2002). Concept mapping as an alternative approach for the analysis of open-ended survey responses. Organizational Research Methods, Vol. 5 No. 4, October, 307-336.

Development of a model of the tobacco industry's interference with tobacco control programmes (6/2003) (Adobe PDF Format)

Trochim, W. and Linton, R. (1986). Conceptualization for evaluation and planning. Evaluation and Program Planning, 9, 289-308.

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