Educational Research: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Approaches

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A clear and in-depth understanding of the varied research methods that are used in education today…

"This is a superior book with many features that make for an excellent textbook...This text does an excellent job of defining the varying types of research and settles the question of whether qualitative or quantitative is superior for educational research by including mixed research models as a preferred model in some cases...I would recommend [this text] as a "must have" for anyone involved in research and program evaluation and one that an advising office should own."
―Anita L. Carter, Wayne State University


Educational Research: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Approaches, Third Edition introduces readers to the fundamental logic of empirical research and the sources of research ideas. Detailed descriptions guide students through the design and implementation of actual research studies with a balanced examination of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed research.

Key Features

• Provides detailed, step-by-step coverage of the key elements of research, including sampling techniques, ethical considerations, data collection methods, measurement, judging validity, experimental and non-experimental methods, descriptive and inferential statistics, qualitative data analysis, and report preparation.
• Describes the essential skills of conducting and evaluating research, using strong sampling designs, writing proposals and questionnaires, understanding quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research, and analyzing qualitative and quantitative data.

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Web-Based Student study site: http://www.sagepub.com/bjohnsonstudy
The interactive study site provides comprehensive study materials such as chapter objectives, flash cards and practice tests, Web resources, "How to Read a Research Article," glossary, "Learning from Journal Articles," and downloadable versions of the tables, figures, and worksheets that appear in the text.

Instructor Resources on CD: Available by contacting Sage, this CD for instructors offers teaching tips; lecture notes; PowerPoint presentations; classroom activities; suggested answers for review questions; Web resources; downloadable versions of the tables, figures, and worksheets that appear in the text; and sample syllabi for both quarter and semester courses. The CD also includes Brownstone′s Diploma Test Bank software so that instructors can create, customize, and deliver tests.

Intended audience: This text will address the needs of Masters and Doctoral level Education students who are conducting and evaluating research projects in Education.

Meet the author! http://www.southalabama.edu/coe/bset/johnson/dr_johnson/2vita.htm 

Burke Johnson is a professor in the Professional Studies Department at the University of South Alabama. His PhD is from the REMS (research, evaluation, measurement, and statistics) program in the College of Education at the University of Georgia. He also has graduate degrees in psychology, sociology, and public administration, which have provided him with a multidisciplinary perspective on research methodology. He was guest editor for a special issue of Research in the Schools focusing on mixed research (available online at www.msera.org/rits_131.htm) and completed a similar guest editorship for the American Behavioral Scientist. He was an associate editor of the Journal of Mixed Methods Research. Burke is first author of Educational Research: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Approaches (Sage, 2014, 5th edition); second author of Research Methods, Design, and Analysis (Pearson, 2014, 12th edition); coeditor (with Sharlene Hesse-Biber) of The Oxford Handbook of Multimethod and Mixed Methods Research Inquiry (2015); coeditor (with Paul Vogt) of Correlation and Regression Analysis (2012); and associate editor of The SAGE Glossary of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2009).

Larry Christensen (PhD University of Southern Mississippi) is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of South Alabama. Larry is the author of several successful textbooks and has published more than 60 journal articles.