Research in Education

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.Appendix D: Glossary Chapter 1: Introduction to Evidence-Based Inquiry Chapter 2: Research Designs and Reading Research Reports Chapter 3: Research Problems, Questions and Hypotheses Chapter 4: Review of Literature Chapter 5: Designing Quantitative Research: Purpose, Validity, and Ethical Considerations Chapter 6: Participants, Subjects and Sampling for Quantitative Designs Chapter 7: Descriptive Statistics Chapter 8: Quantitative Data Collection: Technical Adequacy Chapter 9: Collecting Quantitative Data Chapter 10: Nonexperimental Research Designs, Surveys, and Secondary Data Analysis Chapter 11: Experimental, Quasi-Experimental, and Single-Subject Designs Chapter 12: Understanding and Reporting Inferential Data Analyses Chapter 13: Designing Qualitative Research Chapter 14: Collecting Qualitative Data Chapter 15: Qualitative Data Analysis Chapter 16: Mixed-Methods Designs Chapter 17: Concept Analysis and Historical Research Chapter 18: Evaluation Research and Policy Analysis Chapter 19: Action Research Appendix A: Answers to Application Problems Appendix B: Guidelines for Writing Research Proposals Appendix C: Guidelines for Writing Research Reports Appendix E: Calculations for Selected Descriptive and Inferential Statistics