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Informationen zum Autor W. Newton Suter received his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology in 1983 from Stanford University. He is Professor in Educational Foundations in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where he frequently teaches courses in research, statistics, measurement, and educational psychology. Dr. Suter’s research interests include healthcare education, health literacy, and home health education, and he has written several textbooks and various journal articles. Klappentext Engaging, informative, and nontechnical, Introduction to Educational Research: A Critical Thinking Approach, Second Edition was written and organized specifically for students intending to conduct future educational research. It enables students to think clearly and critically about the process of research and illustrates how easily research can be misinterpreted. The author empowers educators and makes research truly accessible by equipping readers with the reasoning and thinking skills needed to understand and critically evaluate empirical studies across all areas of education. Students are guided through the stages of the research process: thinking about research, formulating hypotheses, selecting appropriate research designs, collecting and analyzing statistical and qualitative data, and completing research analyses and critiques. As a result, students will better understand research as an integrated process, as well as show how and why researchers think like they do. Zusammenfassung An engaging and informative core text that enables students to think clearly and critically about the scientific process of research. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Part I: Foundations Chapter 1: Educators as Critical Thinkers Chapter 2: Thinking About Research Chapter 3: Diversity of Educational Research Part II: Research as Process Chapter 4: The Research Problem Chapter 5: Research Language Chapter 6: Theory and Practice Part III: Data Collection Chapter 7: Research Bias and Control Chapter 8: Sampling in Research Chapter 9: Measurement in Research Part IV: Design and Analysis Chapter 10: Common Experimental Research Designs Chapter 11: Common Non-Intervention Research Designs Chapter 12: Qualitative Data, Analysis, and Design Chapter 13: Statistical Data Analysis Part V: Consumer to Producer Chapter 14: Research Analysis and Critique Chapter 15: Writing Research Proposals Glossary References Index ...
