How to Design and Evaluate Research in Education

✍ Scribed by Jack Fraenkel ; Norman Wallen ; Helen Hyun

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 704
• Edition: 8
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

How to Design and Evaluate Research in Education provides a comprehensive introduction to educational research. The text covers the most widely used research methodologies and discusses each step in the research process in detail. Step-by-step analysis of real research studies provides students with practical examples of how to prepare their work and read that of others. End-of-chapter problem sheets, comprehensive coverage of data analysis, and information on how to prepare research proposals and reports make it appropriate both for courses that focus on doing research and for those that stress how to read and understand research. The authors' writing is simple and direct and the presentations are enhanced with clarifying examples, summarizing charts, tables and diagrams, numerous illustrations of key concepts and ideas, and a friendly two-color design.

✦ Table of Contents

Title
Contents
Part 1 Introduction to Research
1 The Nature of Research
Part 2 The Basics of Educational Research
2 The Research Problem
3 Locating and Reviewing the Literature
4 Ethics and Research
5 Variables and Hypotheses
6 Sampling
7 Instrumentation
8 Validity and Reliability
9 Internal Validity
Part 3 Data Analysis
10 Descriptive Statistics
11 Inferential Statistics
12 Statistics in Perspective
Part 4 Quantitative Research Methodologies
13 Experimental Research
14 Single-Subject Research
15 Correlational Research
16 Causal-Comparative Research
17 Survey Research
Part 5 Introduction to Qualitative Research
18 The Nature of Qualitative Research
19 Observation and Interviewing
20 Content Analysis
Part 6 Qualitative Research Methodologies
21 Ethnographic Research
22 Historical Research
Part 7 Mixed-Methods Studies
23 Mixed-Methods Research
Part 8 Research by Practitioners
24 Action Research
Part 9 Writing Research Proposals and Reports
25 Preparing Research Proposals and Reports
Appendixes
Appendix A Portion of a Table of Random Numbers
Appendix B Selected Values from a Normal Curve Table
Appendix C Chi-Square Distribution
Appenxdix D Using Microsoft Excel*
Glossary
Credit
Index