Educational Research : An Integrative Introduction

by Sowell, Evelyn J.

• ISBN13: 9780070598171
• ISBN10: 0070598177
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

Are your beginning students sometimes overwhelmed by the prospect of reading research articles or writing a research proposal? Does the notion of educational research make them anxious to begin with? Is research a mystery to them? This text will help. Educational Research: An Integrative Introduction is a brief, basic, paperback alternative to the typically long, weighty, hardcover educational research tome. It takes a practical approach to educational research for beginning students. Students who study its chapters critically learn to read research reports and to produce a proposal for their own research project. Nine complete research reports in Appendix A provide illustrations of major ideas in the text chapters and are used in the end-of-chapter exercises. The reports read include experimental, descriptive, qualitative, and historical approaches. The book presents qualitative and quantitative research as complementary approaches to educational research.

Table of Contents

Preface	xii
PART I Introduction to Educational Research	1	(26)
Overview of Research Processes and Products	2	(12)
Overview of Research Problems and Methods	14	(13)
PART II Research Problems, Participants, and Instrumentation	27	(50)
Problem Statements and Literature Reviews	28	(14)
Participant Procedures	42	(17)
Instrumentation Procedures	59	(18)
PART II Methods and Results for Quantitative Studies	77	(64)
Design Procedures for Experimental Research	78	(16)
Design Procedures for Descriptive Research	94	(13)
Descriptive Statistical Data Analyses and Results	107	(19)
Inferential Statistical Data analyses and Results	126	(15)
PART IV Methods and Results for Qualitative Studies	141	(26)
Qualitative Research Procedures and Results	142	(13)
Historical Research Procedures and Results	155	(12)
PART V Integration of Research Problems, Methods, and Outcomes	167	(50)
Discussions of Results	168	(11)
Creation of Research Problems and Literature Reviews	179	(20)
Creation of Proposals for Research Projects	199	(18)
Answers to Selected Exercises	217	(5)
Appendix A Research Reports	222	(118)
Appendix B Data Collection Strategies	340	(8)
Appendix C Inferential Statistical Tests	348	(8)
References	356	(3)
Glossary	359	(8)
Index	367