Educational research :
Sowell, Evelyn J.
Educational research : an integrative introduction / Evelyn J. Sowell. - 1st ed. - Boston : McGraw-Hill, 2001. - xiv, 370 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Publisher's description: Are your beginning students sometimes overwhelmed by the prospect of reading research articles or writing a research proposal? Does the notion of educational research make them anxious to begin with? Is research a mystery to them? This text will help. Educational Research: An Integrative Introduction is a brief, basic, paperback alternative to the typically long, weighty, hardcover educational research tome. It takes a practical approach to educational research for beginning students. Students who study its chapters critically learn to read research reports and to produce a proposal for their own research project. Nine complete research reports in Appendix A provide illustrations of major ideas in the text chapters and are used in the end-of-chapter exercises. The reports read include experimental, descriptive, qualitative, and historical approaches. The book presents qualitative and quantitative research as complementary approaches to educational research.
9780070598171
Education--Research--Methodology.
370.72 SOW
Educational research : an integrative introduction / Evelyn J. Sowell. - 1st ed. - Boston : McGraw-Hill, 2001. - xiv, 370 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Publisher's description: Are your beginning students sometimes overwhelmed by the prospect of reading research articles or writing a research proposal? Does the notion of educational research make them anxious to begin with? Is research a mystery to them? This text will help. Educational Research: An Integrative Introduction is a brief, basic, paperback alternative to the typically long, weighty, hardcover educational research tome. It takes a practical approach to educational research for beginning students. Students who study its chapters critically learn to read research reports and to produce a proposal for their own research project. Nine complete research reports in Appendix A provide illustrations of major ideas in the text chapters and are used in the end-of-chapter exercises. The reports read include experimental, descriptive, qualitative, and historical approaches. The book presents qualitative and quantitative research as complementary approaches to educational research.
9780070598171
Education--Research--Methodology.
370.72 SOW