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Introduction to research in education

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Helps students master the basic competencies necessary to understand and evaluate the research of others, and shows them how to plan and conduct original research. This book builds on the text's strengths of teaching students to become more competent consumers and producers of research.

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Other Authors: Ary, Donald
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Belmont, CA Wadsworth Cengage Learning 2014
Edition:9th ed.
Subjects:
Education > research
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The nature of scientific inquiry
  • 2. Research approaches in education
  • 3. The research problem
  • 4. Reviewing the literature
  • 5. The hypothesis in quantitative research
  • 6. Descriptive statistics
  • 7. Sampling and inferential statistics
  • 8. Tools of research
  • 9. Validity and reliability
  • 10. Experimental research
  • 11. Experimental research designs
  • 12. Ex post facto research
  • 13. Correlational research
  • 14. Survey research
  • 15. Defining and designing qualitative research
  • 16. Types of qualitative research
  • 17. Analyzing and reporting qualitative research
  • 18. Action research
  • 19. Mixed methods research
  • 20. Guidelines for writing research proposals
  • 21. Interpreting and reporting results of quantitative research.

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