Educational Research
Fundamentals for the Consumer Plus MyEducationLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package
6th Edition
Published on 28. November 2012
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432 pages
978-0-13-301802-8 (ISBN)
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--This book educates students to become intelligent consumers of educational research and introduces basic research principles to those who may eventually use research in their work.
Principles for conducting research and criteria for evaluating its overall credibility are presented in a concise manner, with numerous excerpts from published studies, to enable students to learn to read, understand, and evaluate research, and judge the usefulness of the findings for educational practice. There is extensive use of aides to facilitate student learning, including chapter objectives, roadmaps and concept maps, study questions, consumer tips, over 150 examples from published articles (also includes full length articles), and author reflections. The Sixth Edition includes a more extensive presentation of experimental and quasi-experimental design, consistent with the current emphasis on conducting "scientific research," qualitative data analysis, effect size, and two new chapters devoted to mixed-method studies and action research.
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--This book educates students to become intelligent consumers of educational research and introduces basic research principles to those who may eventually use research in their work.
Principles for conducting research and criteria for evaluating its overall credibility are presented in a concise manner, with numerous excerpts from published studies, to enable students to learn to read, understand, and evaluate research, and judge the usefulness of the findings for educational practice. There is extensive use of aides to facilitate student learning, including chapter objectives, roadmaps and concept maps, study questions, consumer tips, over 150 examples from published articles (also includes full length articles), and author reflections. The Sixth Edition includes a more extensive presentation of experimental and quasi-experimental design, consistent with the current emphasis on conducting "scientific research," qualitative data analysis, effect size, and two new chapters devoted to mixed-method studies and action research.
More details
Edition
6th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-13-301802-8 (9780133018028)
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Previous edition
Book
05/2007
5th Edition
Pearson
€100.46
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Person
James H. McMillan is professor and chair of foundations of education at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, where he teaches educational research and assessment courses and directs the Research and Evaluation Track of the PhD in education program. He is also director of the Metropolitan Ed-ucational Research Consortium, a partnership of Virginia Commonwealth University and seven Richmond-area school divisions that conducts and disseminates action and applied research. His current research interests include classroom and large-scale assessment. He has recently published the third edition of Classroom Assessment: Principles and Practice for Effective Standards-Based Instruction and edited Formative Classroom Assessment: Theory into Practice. He has authored three educa-tional research methods textbooks and published numerous articles in journals, including the American Educational Research Journal, the Journal of Educational Psychology, Contemporary Educational Psychology, and Educa-tional Measurement: Issues and Practice.
Content
To the Instructor
To the Student
Chapter 1: Introduction to Research in Education
Chapter 2: Research Problems, Variables, and Hypothesis
Chapter 3: Locating and Reviewing Related Literature
Chapter 4: Participants and Sampling
Chapter 5: Foundations of Educaitonal Measurement
Chapter 6: Data Collection Techniques
Chapter 7: Nonexperimental Quantitative Reseearch Designs
Chapter 8: Experimental Research Designs
Chapter 9: Understanding Statistical Inferences
Chapter 10: Qualitative Research Designs, Data Collection, and Analysis
Chapter 11: Mixed-Method Designs
Chapter 12: Action Research
Chapter 13: Discussion and Conclustions
Chapter 14: The Intelligent Consumer - Putting It All Together
References
Credits
Index
To the Student
Chapter 1: Introduction to Research in Education
Chapter 2: Research Problems, Variables, and Hypothesis
Chapter 3: Locating and Reviewing Related Literature
Chapter 4: Participants and Sampling
Chapter 5: Foundations of Educaitonal Measurement
Chapter 6: Data Collection Techniques
Chapter 7: Nonexperimental Quantitative Reseearch Designs
Chapter 8: Experimental Research Designs
Chapter 9: Understanding Statistical Inferences
Chapter 10: Qualitative Research Designs, Data Collection, and Analysis
Chapter 11: Mixed-Method Designs
Chapter 12: Action Research
Chapter 13: Discussion and Conclustions
Chapter 14: The Intelligent Consumer - Putting It All Together
References
Credits
Index