Educational Research: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Approaches 7th Edition, ISBN-13: 978-1544337838

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Educational Research: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Approaches 7th Edition, ISBN-13: 978-1544337838

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• Publisher: ‎ SAGE Publications, Inc; 7th edition (October 11, 2019)
• Language: ‎ English
• 704 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 1544337833
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1544337838

Educational Research: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Approaches by R. Burke Johnson and Larry Christensen offers a comprehensive, easily digestible introduction to research methods. Readers will develop an understanding of the multiple research methods and strategies used in education and related fields, including how to read and critically evaluate published research and how to write a proposal, construct a questionnaire, and conduct an empirical research study on their own. The Seventh Edition maintains the features that made this book a best-seller, including attention-grabbing chapter-opening vignettes, lively examples that engage reader interest, a conversational and friendly writing style, and more. With the support of this highly readable text, readers will transform into critical consumers and users of research.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I Introduction
Chapter 1 Introduction to Educational Research
Chapter 2 Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Research
Chapter 3 Action Research for Lifelong Learning
Part II Planning the Research Study
Chapter 4 How to Critically Review the Literature and
Develop Good Research Questions
Chapter 5 How to Write a Research Proposal
Chapter 6 Research Ethics
Part III Foundations of Research
Chapter 7 Standardized Measurement and Assessment
Chapter 8 Methods of Data Collection in Quantitative,
Qualitative, and Mixed Research
Chapter 9 How to Construct a Questionnaire
Chapter 10 Sampling in Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed
Research
Chapter 11 Validity of Research Results in Quantitative,
Qualitative, and Mixed Research
Part IV Selecting a Research Method
Section A. Quantitative Research Methods: Five Major
Approaches
Chapter 12 Experimental Research: Weak and Strong
Designs
Chapter 13 Experimental Research: Quasi and Single-Case
Designs
Chapter 14 Nonexperimental Quantitative Research
Section B. Qualitative Research Methods: Five Major
Approaches
Chapter 15 Narrative Inquiry and Case Study Research
Chapter 16 Phenomenology, Ethnography, and Grounded
Theory
Section C. Mixed Methods Research: Many Approaches
Chapter 17 Mixed Research
Part V Analyzing the Data
Chapter 18 Descriptive Statistics
Chapter 19 Inferential Statistics
Chapter 20 Data Analysis in Qualitative and Mixed
Research
Part VI Writing the Research Report
Chapter 21 How to Prepare a Research Report and Use
APA Style Guidelines
Appendix: Citations for Journal Articles Noted in the Margins
Glossary
References
Author Index
Subject Index
About the Authors

R. 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.

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