How to Design and Evaluate Research in Education - Rilegato

Fraenkel, Jack; Wallen, Norman

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ISBN 10: 007365728X ISBN 13: 9780073657288

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education, 1999

Riassunto

This thorough, step-by-step text provides a comprehensive introduction to educational research. Here is complete coverage of each step of the research process and thorough coverage of the most widely-used research methodologies. Step-by-step analysis of real research articles is included. End-of-chapter worksheets, comprehensive coverage of data analysis, and how to prepare research proposals and reports make it appropriate both for courses that focus on doing research and for those that stress how to read and understand research. To keep students engaged, the authors’ writing is simple and direct. The presentations have been enhanced with clarifying examples, summarizing charts, tables and diagrams, and a friendly two-color design. This is the only copiously illustrated text about educational research available. In the new fourth edition a new chapter on single-subject research has been added. Much new information has been added to the discussion of Qualitative Research which has doubled in size to two chapters. New examples of unethical practices have been added to Chapter 3. New sections have been developed for chaos theory, statistical power, and latent variable structural modeling. The reviewing literature chapter (Chapter 5) now emphasizes computer and Internet rather than manual searches. There are all new examples of each methodology with critiques of these new examples. One hundred new illustrations have been added throughout the text. Other changes for the fourth edition include: calculations from Chapter 10 on Descriptive Statistics have been relocated to the Appendix; new material on parametric techniques for categorical data has been added to Chapter 11, and new case studies have been added including, in Chapter 20―Pupil occupancy time in classroom settings across cultures. Free PowerPoint Electronic Slides are available for free download from the Fraenkel fourth edition Web site.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Jack R. Fraenkel is currently Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education and Director of the Research and Development Center, School of Education, San Francisco State University. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University, and has taught courses in research methodology for more than twenty years. His current work centers around advising and assisting faculty and students in the generation and development of research endeavors.

Contenuti:

Part One: Introduction to Research

Chapter 1: The Nature of Educational Research

Part Two: The Basics of Educational Research

Chapter 2: The Research Problem

Chapter 3: Ethics and Research

Chapter 4: Variables and Hypotheses

Chapter 5: Reviewing the Literature

Chapter 6: Sampling

Chapter 7: Instrumentation

Chapter 8: Validity and Reliability

Chapter 9: Internal Validity

Part Three: Data Analysis

Chapter 10: Descriptive Statistics

Chapter 11: Inferential Statistics

Chapter 12: Statistics in Perspective

Part Four: Research Methodologies: I

Chapter 13: Experimental Research

Chapter 14: Single-Subject Research

Chapter 15: Correlational Research

Chapter 16: Causal-Comparative Research

Chapter 17: Survey Research

Part Five: Research Methodologies: II

Chapter 18: Content Analysis Research

Chapter 19: Qualitative Research: I

Chapter 20: Qualitative Research: II

Chapter 21: Historical Research

Part Six: Preparing Research Proposals and Reports

Chapter 22: Writing Research Proposals and Reports

Part Seven: Research by Practitioners

Chapter 23: Doing Research in Schools

Appendix A: Table of Random Numbers

Appendix B: Normal Curve Table

Appendix C: Chi-Square Distribution

Appendix D: Illustration of Statistical Procedures

Su questa edizione

• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 007365728X
• ISBN 13: 9780073657288
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 4
• Numero di pagine: 684