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Applying Educational Research: A Practical Guide
ISBN: 9780801319501 | 0801319501
Edition: 4thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Pub. Date: 1/1/1999
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This text brings research alive for educators by introducing readers to people who actually do research. Designed for courses focused solely on consuming, rather than conducting research, this text includes 13 actual research articles, reprinted in their entirety. The primary author of each article then offers original commentary on his/her piece. Through this format, the text presents a comprehensive explanation of the methodologies used by present-day researchers, data-collection challenges, and the meaning of the results. The book makes no a... MORE
I. THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH.
1. Using Research to Improve Educational Practice.
II. THE RESEARCH LITERATURE ON EDUCATION.
2. Conducting a Review of the Research Literature.
3. Using Primary Sources to Search the Literature.
4. Reading Secondary Sources.
III. QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH IN EDUCATION.
5. Reading Reports of Quantitative Research Studies.
6. Statistical Anal... MORE
7. Descriptive and Causal-Comparative Research.
8. Correlational Research.
9. Experimental Research.
IV. QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN EDUCATION.
10. Case Studies in Qualitative Research.
11. Ethnographic Research.
12. Critical Theory-Based Research.
13. Historical Research.
V. APPLICATIONS OF RESEARCH METHODOLOGY.
14. Evaluation Research.
15. Action Research.
Self-Check Test Answers.
Appendix 1: Preliminary Sources that Index the Education Literature.
Appendix 2: Clearinghouses and Support Components.
Appendix 3: Publications Containing Secondary Source Reviews of the Education Literature.
Appendix 4: Questions for Evaluating Quantitative Research.
Appendix 5: Questions for Evaluating Qualitative Research.
Glossary.
Name Index.
Subject Index.
