Conducting educational research : : a primer for teachers and administrators / / Patricia D. Morrell, James B. Carroll.

• Superior document: Bold visions in educational research ; 30
• VerfasserIn: Morrell, Patricia D.,; Carroll, James B., 1947-
• TeilnehmendeR: Carroll, James B., 1947-
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam, The Netherlands ;, Boston ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Bold visions in educational research ; 30.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Conducting Educational Research: A Primer for Teachers and Administrators is designed to provide the step-wise, content-specific information masters students must possess to design, conduct, and disseminate a qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods classroom or school research study. The text will help school professionals to see both the value of being life-long critical consumers of educational research and the merit of using research in helping them to become teacher leaders and/or change agents in their own professional settings. Specifically, the text would provide master level students with: ●The background they need to see the importance of educational research in their daily professional lives ●Instruction in all aspects of a typical five-chapter research design (introduction/literature review/methodology/results/conclusion, discussion, implications) ●The tools needed to locate and critically review published educational research ●Instruction on common qualitative methodologies ●Instruction on the types of quantitative methodologies that master level candidates would be most likely to use ●Knowledge of the importance of being intelligent consumers of existing research ●Ways to engage the student in a reflection plan for the future.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction of Educational Research -- Writing a Research Question -- The Literature Review -- Collecting Data -- Collecting Data -- Analyzing Data -- Descriptive Statistics -- Analyzing Data -- Quantitative Study Designs -- Data Collection and Validity -- Conclusions, Implications and Writing in Apa Style -- Where to from Here? -- Outline of a Traditional Research Paper -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Appendix D -- Appendix E -- Appendix F -- Glossary.