Understanding and Evaluating Educational Research (4^th Ed.)

For courses in Research Methods in Education. Understanding and Evaluating Research, third edition, is a supplemental textbook appropriate for all courses in educational research. A reader, this text contains quantitative and qualitative educational research articles from a variety of professional journals. With each article is a sample article analysis and exercises that help students become better consumers of research. The third edition is greatly enhanced by the inclusion of a new chapter on ?Mixed Method Designs? and two mixed-method studies, revised and expanded discussion of qualitative methods, more emphasis given to randomized designs, revision of research typology, and features eight new articles.

Chapter 1 Introduction to Reading Educational Research

Chapter 2 Quantitative Nonexperimental Designs

Chapter 3 Experimental Designs

Chapter 4 Qualitative Designs

Chapter 5 "Mixed-Method" Designs

Chapter 6 Action/Practitioner Research