Educational Research: Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research, 6th edition
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Overview
Educational Research offers a step-by-step overview of research processes and shows you how to conduct specific types of quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods studies.
Table of contents
PART 1: An Introduction to Educational Research
1. The Process of Conducting Research Using Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches
PART 2: The Steps in the Process of Research
2. Identifying a Research Problem
3. Reviewing the Literature
4. Specifying a Purpose and Research Questions or Hypotheses
5. Collecting Quantitative Data
6. Analyzing and Interpreting Quantitative Data
7. Collecting Qualitative Data
8. Analyzing and Interpreting Qualitative Data
9. Reporting and Evaluating Research
PART 3: Research Designs
10. Experimental Designs
11. Correlational Designs
12. Survey Designs
13. Grounded Theory Designs
14. Ethnographic Designs
15. Narrative Research Designs
16. Mixed Methods Designs
17. Action Research Designs
APPENDIX A: Determine Size Using Sample Size TablesAPPENDIX B: Commonly Used Statistics in Educational ResearchAPPENDIX C: Nonnormal DistributionAPPENDIX D: Strategies for Defending a Research ProposalGlossaryReferencesAuthor IndexSubject Index
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