Research in education: evidence-based inquiry : international edition

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 combinationof quantitative and qualitative methods and enables students to master skillsin reading, understanding, critiquing, and conducting research. The treatmentof qualitative research is parallel to that of quantitative research to enable students to better understand all approaches to research. This text uses extensive examples from different journals, thoughtful pedagogy that includes instructional aids, instructional tests, key terms, application problems, conceptmaps, criteria for evaluating studies, and MyEducationLab for Research, a newinteractive website. INDICE:Chapter 1: Introduction to Evidence-Based Inquiry Chapter 2: Research Designs and Reading Research Reports Chapter 3: Research Problems, Questions and Hypotheses Chapter 4: Review of Literature Chapter 5: Designing Quantitative Research: Purpose, Validity, and Ethical Considerations Chapter 6: Participants, Subjects and Sampling for Quantitative Designs Chapter 7: Descriptive Statistics Chapter 8: Quantitative Data Collection: Technical Adequacy Chapter9: Collecting Quantitative Data Chapter 10: Nonexperimental Research Designs,Surveys, and Secondary Data Analysis Chapter 11: Experimental, Quasi-Experimental, and Single-Subject Designs Chapter 12: Understanding and Reporting Inferential Data Analyses Chapter 13: Designing Qualitative Research Chapter 14: Collecting Qualitative Data Chapter 15: Qualitative Data Analysis Chapter 16: Mixed-Methods Designs Chapter 17: Concept Analysis and Historical Research Chapter 18: Evaluation Research and Policy Analysis Chapter 19: Action Research Appendix A: Answers to Application Problems Appendix B: Guidelines for Writing Research Proposals Appendix C: Guidelines for Writing Research Reports Appendix D: Glossary Appendix E: Calculations for Selected Descriptive and Inferential Statistics

• ISBN: 978-0-13-136415-8
• Editorial: Pearson/Prentice Hall
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 528
• Fecha Publicación: 02/07/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés