Applying educational research: how to read, do, and use research to solve problems of practice

✍ Scribed by Borg, Walter R;Gall, Joyce P;Gall, Meredith D

• Publisher: Pearson
• Year: 2013;2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 413
• Edition: Pearson new international edition, sixth edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This text is intended for instructors who emphasize teaching students how to locate, read, and interpret, and apply the findings of educational research studies. This revision addresses how to design and conduct a research study in more detail. The text includes numerous recent, published research articles involving high-interest problems of educational practice. The chapters, which treat quantitative, qualitative, and applied forms of educational research, stand alone, allowing instructors to choose those they want to cover. This text brings research alive for educators by introducing readers to people who actually do research. Designed for courses focused primarily on applying, rather than conducting research, it includes 13 actual research articles, reprinted in their entirety. The book makes no assumptions about readers' prior knowledge of research or statistics. This text builds students' confidence so that they are able to successfully read research reports and research. For the first time, readers will see the relevance of research to educational practice.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 4
1. Using Research Evidence to Improve Educational Practice......Page 6
2. Doing Your Own Research: From Proposal to Final Report......Page 26
3. Conducting and Writing Your Own Literature Review......Page 50
4. Using Search Engines in a Literature Review......Page 64
5. Making Use of Available Literature Reviews......Page 82
6. Analyzing and Evaluating Reports of Quantitative Research Studies......Page 98
7. Using Descriptive Statistics to Study Problems of Practice......Page 126
8. The Practical Significance of Statistical Results......Page 148
9. Tests of Statistical Significance......Page 166
10. Descriptive Research......Page 186
11. Group Comparison Research......Page 204
12. Correlational Research......Page 220
13. Experimental Research......Page 244
14. Case Studies in Qualitative Research......Page 272
15. Narrative Research......Page 308
16. Ethnography and Critical Research......Page 324
17. Action Research......Page 350
18. Self-Check Test Answers......Page 366
Appendix: Guide for Outlining a Quantitative or Qualitative Research Proposal......Page 368
Appendix: Questions to Ask Yourself When Evaluating a Report of a Quantitative Study......Page 370
Appendix: Questions to Ask Yourself When Evaluating a Report of a Qualitative Study......Page 374
Appendix: Design-Specific Questions to Ask Yourself When Evaluating a Research Report......Page 378
A......Page 382
C......Page 383
E......Page 386
F......Page 387
I......Page 388
M......Page 390
N......Page 391
P......Page 392
Q......Page 394
R......Page 395
S......Page 396
T......Page 397
Z......Page 398
A......Page 400
B......Page 401
C......Page 402
D......Page 403
E......Page 404
I......Page 405
L......Page 406
N......Page 407
P......Page 408
R......Page 409
S......Page 410
V......Page 412
Z......Page 413

✦ Subjects

Education;Nonfiction;Academic;Grad School