Educational Research: Fundamental Principles and Methods, 8th edition

Published by Pearson (July 14, 2021) © 2022

  • James H. McMillan Virginia Commonwealth University
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Title overview

Fundamentals of Educational Research helps you become an intelligent consumer of educational research and understand basic research principles. The 8th Edition includes a new chapter on qualitative data analysis, a new chapter on writing research proposals, new research articles, excerpts, and more.

Table of contents

Part I: Getting Ready for Research

  1. Introduction to Research in Education
  2. Ethical Issues, Principles, and Practices
  3. Research Problems and Questions
  4. Locating and Reviewing Related Literature

Part II: Quantitative Research

  1. Participants and Sampling for Quantitative Designs
  2. Foundations of Educational Measurement
  3. Quantitative Data Collection Techniques
  4. Nonexperimental Quantitative Research Designs
  5. Experimental Research Designs
  6. Understanding Statistical Inferences

Part III: Qualitative Research

  1. Qualitative Research Designs
  2. Qualitative Data Collection
  3. Qualitative Data Analysis, Validity/Trustworthiness, and Reporting

Part IV: Mixed Methods and Action Research

  1. Mixed Methods Designs
  2. Action Research

Part V: Communicating Research Results

  1. Writing Research Proposals, Reports, and Articles

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