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  • Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018
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  • ISBN-10: 1138565792
  • ISBN-13: 9781138565791
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 142 pages, kõrgus x laius: 229x152 mm, kaal: 800 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1138565792
  • ISBN-13: 9781138565791

Understanding Education Research, 2nd Edition is designed to help students learn to read educational research articles carefully, systematically, and critically. Readers will learn how to categorize titles, decode abstracts, find research questions, characterize research arguments, break down methods and procedures, explore references, apply analysis strategies, and interpret findings. This textbook and quick reference guide allows students to easily develop the skills they need to become research literate and the 2nd edition has been updated throughout to offer simple guidelines for qualitative, quantitative, and statistical approaches and up-to-date information on complex and confusing methodologies.

Preface to the Second Edition ix
1 The Role of Research
1(2)
2 Research Literacy and the Research Critic
3(6)
What Is Research Literacy?
3(2)
What Is a Research Critic?
5(2)
Research as a Conversation
7(2)
3 Basic Approaches in Educational Research
9(20)
Basics of Educational Research
9(1)
The Quantitative Approach
10(3)
The Nature of Statistics
13(7)
The Qualitative Approach
20(7)
The Mixed Methods Approach
27(2)
4 Types of Research Articles
29(7)
Types of Quantitative Articles
29(3)
Types of Qualitative Articles
32(4)
5 Understanding Titles and Abstracts
36(8)
The Title
36(4)
The Abstract
40(1)
Coding the Abstract
41(3)
6 Understanding Rationales and Purposes
44(7)
The Rationale
45(1)
Types of Rationales
45(3)
The Purpose
48(1)
Types of Purposes
48(3)
7 Understanding Questions and Arguments
51(6)
Finding the Research Question(s)
51(3)
The Nature of the Argument
54(1)
Categorizing the Argument
54(3)
8 Understanding References
57(7)
Rearranging the References
58(6)
9 Understanding Methods and Procedures
64(11)
Who?
64(3)
What?
67(1)
How?
68(4)
Special Logistical Concerns
72(3)
10 Understanding Quantitative Results and Findings
75(18)
Tools for Organizing and Describing
76(4)
Tools for Finding and Evaluating Relationships
80(2)
Tools for Testing Hypotheses
82(2)
Tools for Building and Evaluating Models
84(2)
Presentation of Results
86(5)
From Univariate to Multivariate Results
91(2)
11 Understanding Qualitative Results and Findings
93(9)
Orientations
94(5)
Strategies
99(3)
12 Understanding Discussions and Conclusions
102(6)
Summary Statements
102(1)
Explanation Statements
103(1)
Implications Statements
104(1)
Expansion Statements
105(1)
What Have We Accomplished?
106(2)
13 Advanced Concepts and Techniques
108(7)
Reliability
108(1)
Validity
109(2)
Error Types
111(2)
Effect Sizes
113(2)
14 The Research Path
115(4)
Taking Stock
115(1)
The Community of Critics
116(1)
The Road Ahead
117(2)
Bibliography 119(3)
Appendix A Guidelines for Article Evaluations 122(4)
Appendix B Dissecting an Article 126(9)
Index 135
Gary Shank is Professor of Education at Duquesne University.

Janice Pringle is Associate Professor of Education at the University of Pittsburgh.

Launcelot Brown is Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Foundations and Leadership at Duquesne University.