ABSTRACT

Understanding Education Research, 2nd Edition is designed to help students learn to read educational research articles carefully, systematically, and critically. Readers will learn how to categorize titles, decode abstracts, find research questions, characterize research arguments, break down methods and procedures, explore references, apply analysis strategies, and interpret findings. This textbook and quick reference guide allows students to easily develop the skills they need to become research literate and the 2nd edition has been updated throughout to offer simple guidelines for qualitative, quantitative, and statistical approaches and up-to-date information on complex and confusing methodologies.

chapter 1|2 pages

The Role of Research

chapter 2|6 pages

Research Literacy and the Research Critic

chapter 3|20 pages

Basic Approaches in Educational Research

chapter 4|7 pages

Types of Research Articles

chapter 5|8 pages

Understanding Titles and Abstracts

chapter 6|7 pages

Understanding Rationales and Purposes

chapter 7|6 pages

Understanding Questions and Arguments

chapter 8|7 pages

Understanding References

chapter 9|11 pages

Understanding Methods and Procedures

chapter 12|6 pages

Understanding Discussions and Conclusions

chapter 13|7 pages

Advanced Concepts and Techniques

chapter 14|4 pages

The Research Path