Educational Research

James B. Schreiber, Kimberly Asner-Self

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9780470139103
• eBook ISBN: 9781118139578
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Research in Education

Researchers finally have a resource that focuses on the research question, providing them with a unique approach that will help in the field. Key Ideas sections presented in each chapter act as an organising mechanism and look at the big picture of that chapter. Many of the writing activities are open-ended questions that allow them to write questions or what they are thinking about the topic at that point. In-Text Activities ask them to write down what they are working on, such as a research question, review of literature, or potential sample. Case study examples are also integrated throughout to demonstrate how decisions are made and how they affect everything in a study. This enables researchers to create the most effective studies.

Table of contents

• Copyright
• Brief Contents
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter One: Introduction to Research Design
• Chapter Two: Scholar Before Researcher
• Chapter Three: Problem Areas and Research Questions
• Chapter Four: Participant Sampling and Selection
• Chapter Five: Believability in Observation and Measurement
• Chapter Six: Instruments and Collection
• Chapter Seven: Experimental and Nonexperimental Research Design
• Chapter Eight: Qualitative Design
• Chapter Nine: Analysis Techniques: Descriptive and Inferential Statistics
• Chapter Ten: Data Analysis: Non-Numeric Data
• Chapter Eleven: Program Evaluation
• Chapter Twelve: Writing the Proposal or Final Report
• Author Index
• Topic Index