Cross Section of Educational Research

<p>• This collection of research articles emphasizes topics of interest to classroom teachers. </p><p>• The 38 research articles illustrate: <br>•survey research</p><p>•quantitative content analysis</p><p>•correlational research</p><p>•true experimental research</p><p>•quasi-experimental research</p><p>•pre-experimental research</p><p>•single-subject research/behavior analysis</p><p>•causal-comparative research</p><p>•program evaluation</p><p>•qualitative research</p><p>•combined qualitative/quantitative research</p><p>•meta-analysis</p><p>• The lines in each article are numbered sequentially making it easy to refer to specific parts of the article during classroom discussions. </p><p>• The availability of a single source of research articles is convenient and helps you avoid copyright infringement problems. </p><p>• Factual Questions at the end of each article allow students to check their comprehension. </p><p>• Questions for discussion stimulate classroom discussions of research methods. </p><p>• After answering the questions students rate the quality of each article using 13 basic criteria. More detailed criteria in the Appendix may also be applied. </p><p>• Ideal for courses in which the primary goal is to learn how to evaluate research. </p><p>• Twenty-one different journals are represented in the 38 articles in this collection. Students see the diversity of educational research since the journals vary in their standards for publication. </p><p>• New to this edition: Thirteen new articles keep this popular research reader up-to-date. </p>