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How to Design and Evaluate Research in Education Book Cover
How to Design and Evaluate Research in Education, 5/e
Jack R. Fraenkel, San Francisco State University
Norman E. Wallen, San Francisco State University

Table of Contents

  1. INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH
    1. Nature of Educational Research
  2. THE BASICS OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
    1. The Research Problem
    2. Variables and Hypotheses
    3. Ethics and Research
    4. Reviewing the Literature
    5. Sampling
    6. Instrumentation
    7. Validity and Reliability
    8. Internal Validity
  3. PART III: DATA ANALYSIS
    1. Descriptive Statistics
    2. Inferential Statistics
    3. Statistics in Perspective
  4. QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES
    1. Experimental Research
    2. Single-Subject Research
    3. Correlational Research
    4. Causal-Comparative Research
    5. Survey Research
  5. INTRODUCTION TO QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
    1. The Nature of Qualitative
    2. Data Collection in Qualitative Research
    3. Content Analysis
  6. QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES
    1. Ethnographic Research
    2. Historical Research
  7. RESEARCH BY PRACTITIONERS
    1. Action Research
  8. PREPARING RESEARCH PROPOSALS AND REPORTS
    1. Writing Research Proposals and Reports








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