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CONDUCTING EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH: Guide to Completing a Major Project
Daniel J. Boudah, East Carolina University
Give students a step-by-step guide to conducting a research project or thesis in Education. Designed to be used
during the research process, Conducting Educational Research: Guide to Completing a Major Project
walks readers
through each step of a research project or thesis, including developing a research question, performing a literature
search, developing a research plan, collecting and analyzing data, drawing conclusions, and sharing the conclusions
with others. Throughout the book, Daniel J. Boudah covers all types of research (including experimental, descriptive,
qualitative, group designs, and single subject designs) and helps readers link research questions to designs, designs to
data sources, and data sources to appropriate analyses.
CONTENTS 1. Research in Education / 2. Identifying a Research Problem, Question, and Searching Relevant Literature / 3. Understanding
Relevant Literature and Writing a Literature Review / 4. Issues in Validity and Trustworthiness / 5. Designing and conducting experimental research
/ 6. Designing and Conducting Qualitative Research / 7. Designing and Conducting Descriptive Research / 8. Creating a Research Proposal / 9.
Analyzing and Interpreting Experimental Research / 10. Analyzing and Interpreting Qualitative Research / 11. Analyzing and Interpreting Descriptive
Research / 12. Writing Research Reports
PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-4129-7902-3 • ©2011 • 336 PAGES • • SAGE
THE SAGE HANDBOOK FOR RESEARCH IN EDUCATION: Pursuing Ideas as the
Keystone of Exemplary Inquiry SECOND EDITION
Edited by Clifton F. Conrad, University of Wisconsin - Madison • Ronald C. Serlin, University of Wisconsin -
Madison
The SAGE Handbook for Research in Education: Pursuing Ideas as the Keystone of Exemplary Inquiry, edited
by Clifton F. Conrad and Ronald C. Serlin stimulates and encourages students, faculty, and educational practitioners,
including individuals in Pre K–16 education, government, and the private sector who conduct applied and policy-
oriented educational research, to place the pursuit of ideas at the epicenter of their research—from framing meaningful
problems to identifying and addressing key challenges to the reporting and dissemination of their fi ndings. As well
as supporting readers to place the pursuit of ideas as the keystone of exemplary inquiry, the Handbook draws on the
perspectives of scholars representing diverse fi elds within the fi eld of education—from pre-kindergarten to elementary
and secondary school to higher education—as well as qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches to
inquiry. The chapters are punctuated throughout by the voices of authors who wrestle with the formidable challenges of
framing and conducting and reporting meaningful inquiry.
HARDCOVER: $175.00 • ISBN: 978-1-4129-8000-5 • ©2011 • 528 PAGES • • SAGE
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