Research in Education: Evidence-Based Inquiry

✍ Scribed by McMillan, James H

• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 545
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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. Many examples and article excerpts are used throughout the text to demonstrate and highlight best practices in educational research. Evidence-based inquiry is emphasized in two ways: (1) Introductory chapters focus on the added importance of data driven decision-making, (2) Methodological chapters provide explicit guidelines for conducting empirical studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 4
Glossary......Page 6
1. Introduction to Evidence-Based Inquiry......Page 14
2. Research Designs and Reading Research Articles......Page 32
3. Research Problems, Questions, and Hypotheses......Page 61
4. Review of Literature......Page 89
5. Designing Quantitative Research: Purpose, Validity, and Ethical Considerations......Page 118
6. Participants, Subjects, and Sampling for Quantitative Designs......Page 146
7. Descriptive Statistics......Page 166
8. Quantitative Data Collection: Technical Adequacy......Page 193
9. Collecting Quantitative Data......Page 208
10. Nonexperimental Research Designs, Surveys, and Secondary Data Analysis......Page 239
11. Experimental, Quasi-Experimental, and Single-Subject Designs......Page 281
12. Understanding and Reporting Inferential Data Analyses......Page 320
13. Designing Qualitative Research......Page 348
14. Collecting Qualitative Data......Page 373
15. Qualitative Data Analysis and Narrative Structure......Page 399
16. Mixed Method Designs......Page 429
17. Concept Analysis and Historical Research......Page 453
18. Evaluation Research and Policy Analysis......Page 466
19. Action Research......Page 482
Appendix: Guidelines for Writing Research Proposals......Page 494
Appendix: Guidelines for Writing Research Reports......Page 500
Appendix: Calculations for Selected Descriptive and Inferential Statistics......Page 505
References......Page 523
A......Page 526
C......Page 528
D......Page 530
E......Page 531
F......Page 532
I......Page 533
J......Page 534
M......Page 535
O......Page 536
P......Page 537
Q......Page 538
R......Page 539
S......Page 540
T......Page 542
W......Page 543
Z......Page 544

✦ Subjects

Education