Understanding and Evaluating Educational Research

Name: Understanding and Evaluating Educational Research
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ISBN: 9780131721272

ISBN-10: 0131721275

ISBN-13: 9780131721272

Edition: 3rd 2006 (Revised)

Authors: James H. McMillan, Jon F. Wergin

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"Understanding and Evaluating Research," third edition, is a supplemental textbook appropriate for all courses in educational research. A reader, this text contains quantitative "and" qualitative 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.

Book details

List price: $39.60
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 8/25/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English




Introduction to Reading Educational Research



Quantitative Nonexperimental Designs


Articles


The Impact of Alternate Assessments: A Statewide Teacher Survey



Factors That Influence Self-Efficacy of Counseling Students: An Exploratory Study



Relationship between Parents, Peers, Morality, and Theft in an Adolescent Sample



College Success of Students from Three High School Settings




Experimental Designs


Articles


The Effects of an Early Reading Curriculum on Language and Literacy Development of Head Start Children



The Influence of Concept Mapping on Achievement, Self-regulation, and Self-efficacy in Students of English as a Second Language



Grade Distributions, Grading Procedures, and Students' Evaluations of Instructors: A Justice Perspective




Qualitative Designs


Articles


Building Bridges to Student Engagement: Communicating Respect and Care for Students in Urban High Schools



"A Fly in the Buttermilk": Descriptions of University Life by Successful Black Undergraduate Students at a Predominately White Southeastern University




Mixed-Method Designs


Articles


The Artistic and Professional Development of Teachers: A Study of Teachers' Attitudes Toward and Use of the Arts in Teaching



Preservice Teachers' Educational Beliefs and Their Perceptions of Characteristics of Effective Teachers




Action/Practitioner Research


Articles


When Do They Choose the Reading Center? Promoting Literacy in a Kindergarten Classroom



Doing Research That Makes a Difference



Index