About the book

Educational Research: Competencies for Analysis and Applications introduces research mainly at a how-to skill and application level. A total instructional system, the book includes stated learning outcomes, instruction, and procedures for evaluating each outcome. It supports readers as they develop expertise in research, learning key concepts and skills and becoming involved in the research process itself. The authors take a down-to-earth approach that helps the reader become both an educational researcher and a competent consumer of educational research.

Content:

Part I Foundational Concepts and Processes

1. Educational Research: Method, Purpose and Ethics

2. Identifying and Stating A Research Problem

3. Literature Review

4. Preparing and Refining a Research Plan

5. Sampling

6. Constructs, Variables and Tests 

Part II Research Designs

7. Survey Research

8. Correlational Research

9. Causa-comparative Research

10. Experimental Research

11. Single-Subject Experimental Research

12. Narrative Research

13. Ethnographic Research

14. Case Study Research

15. Mixed Methods Research

16. Action Research

Part III Data in Research

17. Organizing and Graphing Data

18. Inferential Statistics

19. Fieldwork

20. Analysis and Interpreting Data

Part IV Writing and Evaluating Research Report

21. Preparing and Publishing a Research Report

22. Analyzing and Critiquing Research