Designed for courses in educational research for consumers, this practical research reader is geared towards guiding students to become critical consumers by first understanding and then critiquing published research studies. It provides principles for understanding and analyzing research reports on each major type of research. Each type of research is followed by examples of published studies that are critiqued by the authors. It introduces students to basic educational research concepts and methods, both qualitative and quantitive, including coverage of topics such as analytical research methods, qualitative methods and designs, descriptive quantitative nonexperimental designs, and graphic presentations of data. Questions for discussion are provided for each article.
Designed for courses in educational research for consumers, this practical research reader is geared towards guiding students to become critical consumers by first understanding and then critiquing published research studies. It provides principles for understanding and analyzing research reports on each major type of research. Each type of research is followed by examples of published studies that are critiqued by the authors. It introduces students to basic educational research concepts and methods, both qualitative and quantitive, including coverage of topics such as analytical research methods, qualitative methods and designs, descriptive quantitative nonexperimental designs, and graphic presentations of data. Questions for discussion are provided for each article.
1. Introduction to Reading Educational Research.
2. Quantitative Nonexperimental Designs.
Differing Opinions on Testing between Preservice and Inservice
Teachers, Kathy E. Green. The Impact of Alternate Assessments: A
Statewide Teacher Survey, Harold L. Kleinert, Sarah Kennedy, and
Jacqueline Farmer Kearns. Classroom Teachers' and Music
Specialists' Perceived Ability to Implement the National Standards
for Music Education, Susan J. Byo. Relationship between Parents,
Peers, Morality, and Theft in an Adolescent Sample, Beth Judy and
Eileen Nelson. College Success of Students from Three High School
Settings, Joe Sutton and Rhonda Galloway.
3. Quantitative Experimental Designs.
Motivational Effects on Test Scores of Elementary Students, Steven
M. Brown and Herbert J. Walberg. Effects of a Children's Book and a
Traditional Textbook on Fifth-Grade Students' Achievement and
Attitudes Toward Social Studies, C. Warren McKinney and H. Jon
Jones. Effects of Cooperative Learning among Hispanic Students in
Elementary Social Studies, Judith R. Lampe, Gene E. Rooze, and Mary
Tallent-Runnels. Grade Distributions, Grading Procedures, and
Students' Evaluations of Instructors: A Justice Perspective,
Jasmine Tata.
4. Qualitative Designs.
Building Bridges to Student Engagement: Communicating Respect and
Care for Students in Urban High Schools, Donetta Cothran and
Catherine D. Ennis. Rites of Passage among Women Reentering Higher
Education, Nancy P. Redding and William D. Dowling. How Does the
Textbook Contribute to Learning in a Middle School Science Class?,
Marcy P. Driscoll, Mahnaz Moallem, Walter Dick, and Elizabeth
Kirby.
5. Action/Practitioner Research.
Effects of Curriculum Alignment Versus Direct Instruction on Urban
Children, George Brent and Nicholas DiObilda. Improving the Grades
of Student Athletes: A Study of Attitudes, Expectations, and
Academic Performance, Henry Davis and Jim Guthrie.
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