Description: I. ORIENTATION TO EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH. 1. Educational Research: Its Nature and Rules of Operation. 2. Types of Educational Research and Corresponding Sources of Data. II. PRELIMINARY SKILLS NEEDED FOR CONDUCTING RESEARCH. 3. Selecting, Refining, and Proposing a Topic for Research. 4. Locating Published Research. 5. Interpreting and Summarizing Published Research. III. CONDUCTING YOUR OWN RESEARCH PROJECT. 6. Designing a Research Project. 7. Procedures and Tools for Gathering Data. 8. Analyzing Research Data and Presenting Findings. 9. Preparing a Research Report. IV. PROCEDURES AND EXEMPLARS IN EIGHT TYPES OF RESEARCH. 10. Ethnographic Research. 11. Descriptive Research and Historical Research. 12. Correlational Research. 13. Action Research and Evaluation Research. 14. Experimental, Quasi-Experimental, and Causal-Comparative Research. Appendix: Overview of Statistical Concepts and Procedures. Glossary. Index.

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