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Educational Research: Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research, 3/E
John W. Creswell

ISBN-10: 0136135501
ISBN-13: 9780136135500

Publisher: Merrill
Copyright: 2008
Format: Cloth; 640 pp
Published: 07/16/2007

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Educational Research: Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research, third edition, is appropriate for courses in Introduction to Educational Research.  This successful core research text is known for its truly balanced coverage of qualitative and quantitative methods. The author's clear and practical writing has made this book a favorite among instructors and students.  In precise step-by-step language the text helps students learn how to read and evaluate research studies.  Key changes include: updated quantitative coverage, expanded coverage of ethics, and new research articles. 

  • Offers a truly balanced, inclusive, and integrated overview of the field as it currently stands
  • Provides a balanced coverage of quantitative and qualitative research
  • Helps students learn how to begin to conduct research
  • Helps students learn how to read and evaluate research studies
  • Examines foundational issues of research consistently–for example, determining how to approach a project and understanding what constitutes data and how to analyze them-from both quantitative and qualitative perspectives
  • Expands information about quantitative validity to include multiple forms of criterion-related validity; new content has been added that analyzes the relationship between reliability and validity
  • Clarifies the interpretations of scales as either ordinal or interval
  • Clarifies and developed further topics such as hypothesis testing, commonly used statistical tests, and various procedures for calculating effect sizes
  • Reframes quantitative and qualitative research approaches; these are no longer seen as two completely separate approaches but as forms of research that lie along a continuum
  • Expands ethical issues to include discussions on: deceptive practices, the disclosure of the purpose of studies, respect for research sites, and issues of ethics unique to qualitative interviewing
  • Provides a more balanced perspective to the use of many different computer databases that readers can access to review the literature

  • Topics such as hypothesis testing, commonly used statistical tests, and various procedures for calculating effect sizes have both been clarified and developed further in this third edition.
  • Quantitative and qualitative research approaches are no longer seen as two completely separate approaches but as forms of research that lie along a continuum.
  • Ethical issues have been expanded to include discussions on: deceptive practices, the disclosure of the purpose of studies, respect for research sites, and issues of ethics unique to qualitative interviewing.
  • A more balanced perspective is given to the use of many different computer databases that readers can access to review the literature.

    • PART I            An Introduction to Educational Research

     

    Chapter 1        The Process of Conducting Research

    Chapter 2        Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches

     

    PART II           The Steps in the Process of Research

     

    Chapter 3        Identifying a Research Problem

    Chapter 4        Reviewing the Literature

    Chapter 5        Specifying a Purpose and Research Questions or Hypotheses

    Chapter 6        Collecting Quantitative Data

    Chapter 7        Analyzing and Interpreting Quantitative Data

    Chapter 8        Collecting Qualitative Data

    Chapter 9        Analyzing and Interpreting Qualitative Data

    Chapter 10      Reporting and Evaluating Research

     

    PART III          Research Designs

     

    Chapter 11      Experimental Designs

    Chapter 12      Correlational Designs

    Chapter 13      Survey Designs

    Chapter 14      Grounded Theory Designs

    Chapter 15      Ethnographic Designs

    Chapter 16      Narrative Research Designs

    Chapter 17      Mixed Methods Designs

    Chapter 18      Action Research Designs

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    Educational Research: Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research

     

    This book is the only introductory educational research text to offer a truly balanced and integrated treatment of both quantitative and qualitative methods.  Written in clear and practical language, Educational Research will help its readers get started doing their own research and will also help them become better readers of research. 

     

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    The Companion Website provides an interactive online learning experience that builds students’ research skills so that they become more effective research readers and practitioners.  This text not only clearly presents practical information, but also provides students with opportunities to practice essential research skills on the Companion Website.  Visit http://www.prenhall.com/creswell to access the following online resources:

    ·   Building Research Skills interactive exercises provide students with the opportunity to apply chapter content and practice their research skills.  Students practice key steps of the research process including: identifying a research problem, reviewing the literature, writing research questions and hypotheses, and collecting and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data. 

    ·   Self-Assessment Questions assess students’ understanding of chapter content

    ·   Web Destinations broaden students’ knowledge of research

     

    Truly balanced and integrated coverage of both qualitative and quantitative research exposes students to the types of educational research they will encounter as readers and helps them understand the range of potential directions for their own research.  Throughout the discussion of the research process, each topic is presented and examined from both perspectives. 

     

    A separate chapter on mixed methods will help students recognize mixed methods studies and understand how they themselves might use multiple methods in their own research. 

     

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