Pearson eText Practical Research: Planning and Design -- Access Card

by Paul Leedy / Jeanne Ormrod

• ISBN13: 9780136851448
• ISBN10: 0136851444
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2020-08-17
• Publisher: PEARSO

Summary

Practical Research uses step-by-step instructions, hands-on applications, and pragmatic suggestions to help you understand how to plan and conduct effective research.

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Author Biography

Jeanne Ellis Ormrod holds a B.A. degree in psychology from Brown University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in educational psychology from The Pennsylvania State University. For more than twenty years she was a faculty member at the University of Northern Colorado, where she taught courses in learning and cognition, educational psychology, measurement, and research methods; she is currently Professor Emerita of Psychological Sciences at UNC. Dr. Ormrod has published numerous research articles but is probably best known for this book and several other textbooks: Human Learning (7th ed., 2016); Educational Psychology: Developing Learners (9th ed., coauthored by Eric and Lynley Anderman, 2014); Essentials of Educational Psychology (5th ed., coauthored with Brett D. Jones, 2018); and Child Development and Education (6th ed., 2016, all editions coauthored with Teresa McDevitt).

Paul D. Leedy is late of the American University.

Table of Contents

PART I: THE FUNDAMENTALS
1. The Nature and Tools of Research

PART II: FOCUSING YOUR RESEARCH EFFORTS
2. The Problem: The Heart of the Research Process
3. Review of the Related Literature
4. Planning Your Research Project
5. Writing the Research Proposal

PART III: RESEARCH DESIGNS
6. Descriptive Research
7. Experimental, Quasi-Experimental, and Ex Post Facto Designs
8. Qualitative Research Methods
9. Mixed-Methods Designs
10. Action Research

PART IV: DATA ANALYSES
11. Analyzing Quantitative Data
12. Analyzing Qualitative and Mixed-Methods Data

PART V: RESEARCH REPORTS
13. Planning and Preparing a Final Research Report

Appendix A: Using a Spreadsheet: Microsoft Excel
Appendix B: Using SPSS
Glossary
References