Educational research: competencies for analysis and applications

Educational Research: Competencies for Analysis and Applications uses engaging, straightforward language to introduce students to the information and skills required to successfully conduct research and to competently evaluate research. Long known for their clear and at times humorous writing, the authors are accessible and thoughtful guides for readers who are being introduced for the first time to a field that many of them might find initially intimidating. The text provides a total instructional system that lays out clear learning targets and then supports students as they practice and develop expertise in both doing and reading research. The 12th Edition includes a new, separate chapter on ethics, expands its coverage of single-subject research, covers the latest digital strategies and tools for doing research, and introduces students to the open source statistics software R -- Provided by the publisher.

Part I. Foundational concepts and processes -- Introduction to educational research -- Ethics in educational research -- Selecting and defining a research problem -- Reviewing the literature -- Preparing and evaluating a research plan -- Selecting a sample -- Selecting measuring instruments -- Part II. Research designs -- Survey research -- Correlational research -- Causal-comparative research -- Experimental research -- Single-subject experimental research -- Narrative research -- Ethnographic research -- Case study research -- Mixed methods research: Integrating qualitative and quantitative methods -- Action research -- Part III. Working with quantitative and qualitative data -- Descriptive statistics -- Inferential statistics -- Qualitative data collection -- Qualitative research: Data analysis and interpretation -- Part IV. Reporting and critiquing research -- Preparing a research report -- Evaluating a research report.