Educational Research Methods

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Table of Contents:
Unit 1: Course Introduction and Learning Strategies Unit 2: Introduction to Educational Research Unit 3: Three Major Research Approaches and Action Research Unit 4: Planning a Research Study Unit 5: Research Ethics Unit 6: Standardized Measurement and Assessment Unit 7: Data Collection Unit 8: Techniques and Principles of Sampling Unit 9: Validity of Research Results Unit 10: Research Methods and Design Unit 11: Data Analysis Unit 12: Evaluating Research Studies Unit 13: Writing a Research Report Unit 14: Acknowledgments and References

About the Author :
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.