Applying Educational Research: How to Read, Do, and Use Research to Solve Problems of Practice

Pearson New International Edition

Joyce Gall, M. Gall, Walter Borg (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

416 Seiten

2013 | 6th edition
Pearson Education Limited (Verlag)
978-1-292-04168-1 (ISBN)

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This text is intended for instructors who emphasize teaching students how to locate, read, and interpret, and apply the findings of educational research studies. This revision addresses how to design and conduct a research study in more detail. The text includes numerous recent, published research articles involving high-interest problems of educational practice. The chapters, which treat quantitative, qualitative, and applied forms of educational research, stand alone, allowing instructors to choose those they want to cover. This text brings research alive for educators by introducing readers to people who actually "do" research. Designed for courses focused primarily on applying, rather than conducting research, it includes 13 actual research articles, reprinted in their entirety. The book makes no assumptions about readers' prior knowledge of research or statistics. This text builds students' confidence so that they are able to successfully read research reports and research. For the first time, readers will see the relevance of research to educational practice.

PART I: INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1    Using Research Evidence to Improve Educational Practice



Chapter 2    Doing Your Own Research: From Proposal to Final Report

PART II: APPLYING EXISTING RESEARCH STUDIES TO PROBLEMS

   OF PRACTICE

Chapter 3    Conducting and Writing Your Own Literature Review

Chapter 4    Using Search Engines in a Literature Review

Chapter 5    Making Use of Available Literature Reviews

PART III: USING QUANTITATIVE METHODOLOGY TO STUDY

PROBLEMS OF PRACTICE

Chapter 6    Analyzing and Evaluating Reports of Quantitative Research Studies

Chapter 7    Using Descriptive Statistics to Study Problems of Practice

Chapter 8    The Practical Significance of Statistical Results

Chapter 9    Tests of Statistical Significance

Chapter 10 Descriptive Research

Chapter 11 Group-Comparison Research

Chapter 12 Correlational Research



Chapter 13 Experimental Research



PART IV: USING QUALITATIVE METHODOLOGY TO STUDY

PROBLEMS OF PRACTICE

Chapter 14 Case Study Research

Chapter 15 Narrative Research

Chapter 16 Ethnographic and Critical Ethnographic Research

Chapter 17 Historical Research



PART V: COMBINING QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE METHODOLOGIES TO STUDY PROBLEMS OF PRACTICE

Chapter 18 Mixed-Methods Research

PART VI: USING OTHER METHODOLOGIES TO STUDY PROBLEMS OF PRACTICE

Chapter 19    Action Research

Chapter 20 Evaluation Research

SELF-CHECK TEST ANSWERS

APPENDICES

1. Guide for Outlining a Quantitative or Qualitative Research Proposal

2. Questions To Ask Yourself When Evaluating a Report of a Quantitative Study

3. Questions to Ask Yourself When Evaluating a Report of a Qualitative Study

4. Design-Specific Questions to Ask Yourself When Evaluating a Research Report

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.11.2013
Verlagsort	Harlow
Sprache	englisch
Maße	215 x 280 mm
Gewicht	1036 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sonder-, Heil- und Förderpädagogik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
ISBN-10	1-292-04168-4 / 1292041684
ISBN-13	978-1-292-04168-1 / 9781292041681
Zustand	Neuware