Research in Education : Evidence-Based Inquiry
ISBN: 9780137152391 | 0137152396
Edition: 7thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 5/29/2009
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This substantially revised text provides a comprehensive, highly accessible, and student friendly introduction to the principles, concepts, and methods currently used in educational research. This text provides a balanced combination of quantitative and qualitative methods and enables students to master skills in reading, understanding, critiquing, and conducting research. The treatment of qualitative research is parallel to that of quantitative research to enable students to better understand all approaches to research. This text uses extensiv... MORE
| Introduction to Evidence-Based Inquiry | |
| Research Designs and Reading Research Reports | |
| Research Problems, Questions and Hypotheses | |
| Review of Literature | |
| Designing Quantitative Research: Purpose, Validity, and Ethical Considerations | |
| Participants, Subjects and Sampling for Quantitative Designs | |
| Descriptive Statistics | |
| Quantitative Data Collection: Technical ... MORE | |
| Collecting Quantitative Data | |
| Nonexperimental Research Designs, Surveys, and Secondary Data Analysis | |
| Experimental, Quasi-Experimental, and Single-Subject Designs | |
| Understanding and Reporting Inferential Data Analyses | |
| Designing Qualitative Research | |
| Collecting Qualitative Data | |
| Qualitative Data Analysis | |
| Mixed-Methods Designs | |
| Concept Analysis and Historical Research | |
| Evaluation Research and Policy Analysis | |
| Action Research | |
| Answers to Application Problems | |
| Guidelines for Writing Research Proposals | |
| Guidelines for Writing Research Reports | |
| Glossary | |
| Calculations for Selected Descriptive and Inferential Statistics | |
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