Understanding and Evaluating Educational Research

Gain insight into classifying and judging educational research with this updated edition. It features a new chapter on mixed-method designs, expanded qualitative coverage, and recent articles on diverse topics like administration, counseling, and curriculum. Tools such as flow charts and scorecards facilitate evaluation and discussion of quantitative, qualitative, and non-experimental studies.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to understanding and evaluating educational research, with a revised research typology in the first chapter that helps readers classify studies and apply judgment criteria.

A new chapter on Mixed-Method Designs explores characteristics of these approaches and evaluation standards, supported by two mixed-method studies and an expanded discussion of qualitative methods.

It includes eight new articles on descriptive quantitative non-experimental designs, alongside current selections from various journals covering topics like educational administration, counseling, special education, curriculum, adult education, and early childhood education.

Emphasis on randomized designs enhances the coverage of quantitative methods, while tools like a credibility scorecard, research flow chart, concept overviews, evaluation criteria, and discussion questions aid in analyzing and discussing research articles.

The content promotes appreciation for the diversity of published research, representing both quantitative and qualitative methods with articles from the past five years at varied reading levels.