Methods of Educational and Social Science Research: An Integrated Approach (2nd Edition) - Hardcover

Krathwohl, David R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801320291 ISBN 13: 9780801320293

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, 1997

Synopsis

Designed to better serve master's level students while meeting needs of doctoral level students in educational research methods, this text provides a comprehensive framework for designing, implementing, and evaluating studies. The only text of its kind to be modeled around the concept of "how research becomes accepted as knowledge," it offers substantial treatment of research by practitioners (Ch. 23). The Qualitative End (expanded from 5 chapters to Sec. 4); The Qualitative/Quantitative Middle (represented by survey research - Sec. 5); and The Quantitative End (Section 6) help readers realize that they are not confined to either one or the other, but may choose from, merge, and creatively adapt them. In the new edition, the discussion of meta-analysis has been expanded to chapter length (Ch. 21) and the ethics coverage (Ch. 10) is introduced before the research approaches chapters. New appendix on writing a research proposal helpful to doctoral and masters students doing theses. Best used by professors wanting a comprehensive, weighty text.

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From the Publisher

Title of related interest from Waveland Press: Leavitt, Evaluating Scientific Research: Separating Fact from Fiction (ISBN 9781577663454).

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"This rivals Kerlinger's Foundations of Behavior Research, 4/E in its completeness, thoroughness, rigor, care for detail, and readability. In fact, it's probably better overall." -- Patrick T. Terenzini, Penn State University

"This is the book I was looking for. It provides the knowledge base to understand research concepts. It is comprehensive and illustrates with powerful applications problems that students can learn and transfer to real life in their schools. Awesome organization in sections within each chapter! A+++." -- Maria Cardette-Elawar, Arizona State University West

"The text is complete and goes into details on the major subjects. I especially liked the qualitative section." -- James Watson, Columbia International University

"This is, I believe, the best comprehensive textbook for an introductory graduate-level course in research methods." -- Alan Davis, University of Colorado

"The second edition amounts to a genuine tour de force. It succeeds, admirably, in accomplishing precisely what the author set out to do: to delineate an `integrating framework' for understanding and conducting social science research." -- Christopher J. Lucas, University of Arkansas

"A well-documented, detailed, and comprehensive text. Research scholars will certainly find this a most useful text." -- Vic Madho, College of St. Vincent

"It's an excellent book. I've used it in class the past two years and found it to be comprehensive, clear, and concise. Students value it." -- John Pavlik, Rutgers University

Edition details

• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801320291
• ISBN 13: 9780801320293
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 742