Educational Research: Competencies for Analysis and Applications

Students often fear the educational research course. Don't worry - this book is famous for its lack of jargon, for its clear and concrete explanations, and its light, often funny, tone. As you read the book, you will build skills that you need to read educational research and produce your own. The book will help guide you through each step in creating your own research report. You can compare your work with the example published research articles in every methods chapter. In addition, the new Digital Research Tools for the 21st Century feature introduces novel tools and methods you can use to make the process of doing research easier or more efficient - like using speech recognition programs to save time transcribing interviews, using flip cameras and Skype to collect qualitative data, and using management programs to organize citations.

Educational Research: Competencies for Analysis and Applications, tenth edition

Lorrie R. Gay and Geoff Mills

 

 

Educational Research: Competencies for Analysis and Applications, tenth edition, is a practical text focused on the skills needed by competent consumers and producers of educational research. The tenth edition includes:

 

A clear, down-to-earth approach

·    The accessible writing style, clear and concise explanations, and humorous tone demystify the research process.

·    Tasks are included throughout the text to guide students through the process of creating their own research report.

·    Examples of published research are included ineveryresearch methods chapter.

Additional coverage of technology throughout the text including

 

The Digital Research Tools for the 21st Century feature that introduces novel tools and methods researchers can use to make the process of doing research easier or more efficient like using speech recognition programs to save time transcribing interviews (see Chapter 15).

·    A new section on the evaluation of internet sources (see Chapter 3).

·    Step-by-step directions for an ERIC EBSCO search that maximizes the power of university library consortium agreements to identify fully online journal articles (Chapter 3).

• Updated chapters on Descriptive and Inferential Statistics (12 and 13) that reflect new versions of SPSS and Excel.