Understanding and Evaluating Educational Research

by McMillan, James H.; Wergin, Jon F.

• ISBN13: 9780131721272
• ISBN10: 0131721275
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

Understanding and Evaluating Research, third edition, is a supplemental textbook appropriate for all courses in educational research. A reader, this text contains quantitativeandqualitative educational research articles from a variety of professional journals. With each article is a sample article analysis and exercises that help students become better consumers of research. The third edition is greatly enhanced by the inclusion of a new chapter on "Mixed Method Designs" and two mixed-method studies, revised and expanded discussion of qualitative methods, more emphasis given to randomized designs, revision of research typology, and features eight new articles.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Reading Educational Research	1	(12)
Quantitative Nonexperimental Designs	13	(47)
The Impact of Alternate Assessments: A Statewide Teacher Survey	16	(13)
Harold L. Kleinert
Sarah Kennedy
Jacqueline Farmer Kearns
Factors That Influence Self-Efficacy of Counseling Students: An Exploratory Study	29	(9)
Mei Tang
Kathleen D. Addison
Danielle LaSure-Bryant
Rhonda Norman
William O'Connell
Joseph A. Stewart-Sicking
Relationship between Parents, Peers, Morality, and Theft in an Adolescent Sample	38	(11)
Beth Judy
Eileen S. Nelson
College Success of Students from Three High School Settings	49	(11)
Joe P. Sutton
Rhonda S. Galloway
Experimental Designs	60	(34)
The Effects of an Early Reading Curriculum on Language and Literacy Development of Head Start Children	63	(11)
Lucy Hart Paulson
Karen L. Kelly
Stacia Jepson
Rick van den Pol
Rhea Ashmore
Merle Farrier
Shannon Guilfoyle
The Influence of Concept Mapping on Achievement, Self-regulation, and Self-efficacy in Students of English as a Second Language	74	(13)
Pasana Chularut
Terasa K. DeBacker
Grade Distributions, Grading Procedures, and Students' Evaluations of Instructors: A Justice Perspective	87	(7)
Jasmine Tata
Qualitative Designs	94	(34)
Building Bridges to Student Engagement: Communicating Respect and Care for Students in Urban High Schools	98	(13)
Donetta J. Cothran
Catherine D. Ennis
``A Fly in the Buttermilk'': Descriptions of University Life by Successful Black Undergraduate Students at a Predominately White Southeastern University	111	(17)
Mitzi Davis
Yvonne Dias-Bowie
Katherine Greenberg
Gary Klukken
Howard R. Pollio
Sandra P. Thomas
Charles L. Thompson
Mixed-Method Designs	128	(36)
The Artistic and Professional Development of Teachers: A Study of Teachers: Attitudes Toward and Use of the Arts in Teaching	130	(16)
Barry Oreck
Preservice Teachers' Educational Beliefs and Their Perceptions of Characteristics of Effective Teachers	146	(18)
Lynn C. Minor
Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie
Ann E. Witcher
Terry L. James
Action/Practitioner Research	164	(22)
When Do They Choose the Reading Center? Promoting Literacy in a Kindergarten Classroom	166	(6)
Susan K. Green
Clair Britt
Patsy Parker
Doing Research That Makes a Difference	172	(14)
Estela Mara Bensimon
Donald E. Polkinghorne
Georgia L. Bauman
Edlyn Vallejo
Index	186