Introduction to research in education / Donald Ary (Emeritus, Northern Illinois University), Lucy Cheser Jacobs (Indiana University), Christine K. Sorensen Irvine (University of Hawaii at Mānoa), David A. Walker (Northern Illinois University).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ary, Donald, author.

Jacobs, Lucy Cheser, author.

Sorensen, Christine Knupp, author.

Walker, David A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Research.

Education.

Physical Description:

xiv, 588 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Edition:

Tenth edition.

Student edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Cengage, [2019]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1. The nature of research in education

2. The research problem

3. Reviewing the literature

4. Ethics in educational research

5. Measurement

6. Validity and reliability

7. Descriptive statistics

8. Sampling and inferential statistics

9. Experimental research

10. Experimental research designs

11. Ex post facto research

12. Correlational research

13. Survey Research

14. Interpreting and reporting results of quantitative research

15. Defining and designing qualitative research

16. Types of qualitative research

17. Data-collection tools in qualitative research

18. Rigor and ethics in qualitative research

19. Analyzing and reporting qualitative research

20. Action research

21. Mixed methods research.

Notes:

Previous edition: 2014

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781337566001

1337566004

OCLC:

1018419003