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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.
Thinking About Research
Thinking About Research
- Overview
- Sharpen Your Thinking: Powerful Ideas
- Are Biases in Research Obvious?
- The Amazing Randi
- Clever Hans
- Benjamin Franklin and the Placebo Control
- Little Emily
- Misinterpretations?
- Paper Sputnik
- Iowa First
- Pygmalion
- Hawthorne
- Other Examples: You Decide
- Control in Experimentation: Compared to What?
- Can You Trust Intuition?
- Relationships: Do We Have Sufficient Information?
- Autism
- Grade Retention
- SAT Preparation
- Contrasting Groups: Are They Meaningful?
- Statistical Logic: How Can Inference Help?
- Muddied Thinking About Important Ideas
- Misunderstood Statistical Significance
- Misunderstood Proof
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Application Exercises
- Student Study Site
- References
Outline
Overview
Chapter 1 introduced a thinking-skills approach to educational research, ...
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