Educational and Psychological Research

<p>• This edition of our popular reader is entirely updated with timely articles that deal with broad issues in education and psychology. (For a research reader with emphasis on classroom issues see A Cross Section of Educational Research.) </p><p>• This collection shows students the many inherent weaknesses of empirical methods as well as models of excellence. Unlike research readers that contain made-up articles this one has both face validity and content validity. Your students will appreciate reading real articles with real results. </p><p>• The 34 research articles illustrate: •qualitative research<br>•combined qualitative/quantitative research<br>•content/documentary analysis<br>•correlational research<br>•test validity and reliability research<br>•causal-comparative research<br>•true experimental research<br>•quasi-experimental research<br>•pre-experimental research<br>•program evaluation<br>•meta-analysis</p><p>• The lines are numbered sequentially making it easy to refer to specific parts of each article during classroom discussions. </p><p>• This single source of research articles is convenient for you and your students. </p><p>• Easy to coordinate with any research methods text this reader is an ideal way to make research methods come alive! Field-tested for student interest and comprehension. </p><p>• All major methods of research are illustrated with real research articles drawn from a wide variety of journals. (See Table of Contents.) </p><p>• Your students will become familiar with a wide variety of writing and organizational styles that real researchers use. Despite their variety all articles in this book are highly comprehensible. </p><p>• Factual Questions at the end of each article encourage students to read for mythological points they might otherwise overlook. </p><p>• Questions for Discussion encourage students to address broad issues of research design. An instructor’s answer key will be shipped with your examination copy. </p><p>• The interesting research topics will make your students look forward to doing their research reading homework. </p>