Understanding educational research
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Understanding educational research
Prentice Hall, c1991
Available at 8 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Exloring scientific research in education and the behavioural sciences, this text is designed to prepare readers to understand research by actually carrying out their own research. It focuses on the methodology involved in scientific research and illustrates the necessary techniques for doing the first research project and the reasons for using those techniques. Highlights of this unique resource include an easy-to-read, non-threatening writing style providing full coverage of virtually all research strategies in education and psychology; explanations of basic research strategies and the basic experimental designs; actual research studies taken from educational literature; a chapter on the use of computers in education and research covering literature searches as well as statistical analysis; and a research simulations chapter in which readers check off the critical decisions needed to carry out the research while being exposed to some of education's most important studies.
Table of Contents
- An introduction to the scientific method
- the language of research
- research methodology
- additional research strategies
- statistical thinking
- practical considerations in doing research in schools
- research simulations and errors
- the anatomy of a research report
- case studies I - experimental research
- case studies II - post-facto research and others
- computers, educational research and the 1990s.
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