TY - BOOK AU - Fraenkel, Jack R. TI - How to design and evaluate research in education SN - 9780071287920 U1 - 370.72 PY - 2008/// CY - Boston PB - McGraw Hill KW - Education-Research N1 - PART 1: INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH 1: The Nature of Educational Research PART 2: THE BASICS OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH 2: The Research Problem 3: Variables and Hypotheses 4: Ethics and Research 5: Locating and Reviewing Literature 6: Sampling 7: Instrumentation 9: Internal Validity PART 3: DATA ANALYSIS 10: Descriptive Statistics 11: Inferential Statistics 12: Statistics in Perspective PART 4: QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES 13: Experimental Research 14: Single-Subject Research 15: Correlational Research 16: Causal-Comparative Research 17: Survey Research PART 5: INTRODUCTION TO QUALITATIVE RESEARCH 18: The Nature of Qualitative Research 19: Observation and Interviewing 20: Content Analysis PART 6: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES 21: Ethnographic Research 22: Historical Research PART 7: MIXED-METHODS STUDIES 23: Mixed-Methods Research PART 8: RESEARCH BY PRACTITIONERS 24: Action Research PART 9: WRITING RESEARCH PROPOSALS AND REPORTS 25: Preparing Research Proposals and Reports Appendix A: Portion of a Table of Random Numbers Appendix B: Selected Values from a Normal Curve Table Appendix C: Chi-Square Distribution Appendix D: Using SPSS ER -