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Research and evaluation in education and psychology : integrating diversity with quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods / Donna M. Mertens, Gallaudet University.

By: Mertens, Donna M [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE Publications, Inc., [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Edition: Fourth edition.Description: xxiii, 509 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781452240275 (paperback).Subject(s): Education -- Research -- Methodology | Psychology -- Research -- Methodology | Education | Research methods: general | Psychological methodology | EducationDDC classification: 370.72 | 370.72 MER
Contents:
An introduction to research -- Evaluation -- Literature review and focusing the research -- Experimental and quasi-experimental research -- Casual comparative and correlational approaches -- Survey methods -- Single-Case research -- Qualitative methods -- History and narrative study of lives -- Mixed methods research -- Sampling -- Data collection -- Data analysis, interpretation, and use.
Summary: Focused on discussing what is considered to be 'good' research, this textbook explains quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods, and incorporates the viewpoints of various research paradigms into its descriptions of these methods. The work covers four major paradigms: postpositivist, constructivist, transformative, and pragmatic.
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Focused on increasing the credibility of research and evaluation, the Fourth Edition of Donna M. Mertens's comprehensive Research and Evaluation in Education and Psychology: Integrating Diversity with Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods incorporates the viewpoints of various research paradigms into its descriptions of these methods. Providing specific advice on conducting research in culturally complex communities, the new edition has been updated to align with the American Psychological Association and the National Council of Accreditation of Teacher Education accreditation requirements. Approximately sixty percent of the content in the Fourth Edition is new, updated with numerous contemporary examples, making this book one of the most comprehensive, accessible, and practical methods books available.

Previous edition: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 470-494) and indexes.

An introduction to research -- Evaluation -- Literature review and focusing the research -- Experimental and quasi-experimental research -- Casual comparative and correlational approaches -- Survey methods -- Single-Case research -- Qualitative methods -- History and narrative study of lives -- Mixed methods research -- Sampling -- Data collection -- Data analysis, interpretation, and use.

Focused on discussing what is considered to be 'good' research, this textbook explains quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods, and incorporates the viewpoints of various research paradigms into its descriptions of these methods. The work covers four major paradigms: postpositivist, constructivist, transformative, and pragmatic.

CIT Module EDUC 9031 - Core reading.

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Donna M. Mertens is Professor in the Department of Education at Gallaudet University. She teaches research methods and program evaluation to deaf and hearing students at the MA and PhD levels. She conducts research and evaluation studies nationally and internationally on such topics as improvement of access to education for persons with disabilities, women, displaced persons, and refugees, reduction of violence against women, prevention of sexual abuse in residential schools for deaf students, improvement of access to the court systems for deaf and hard-of-hearing people, and preparation of teachers of the deaf through appropriate use of instructional technology. Her research focuses on improving methods of inquiry by integrating the perspectives of those who have experienced oppression in our society. She draws on the writings of feminists, minorities, people with disabilities, as well as indigenous peoples who have addressed the issues of power and oppression and their implications for research methodology. Dr. Mertens has made numerous presentations at the meetings of the American Educational Research Association, the American Evaluation Association, the International Sociological Association, the International Mixed Methods Conference, the American Psychological Association, and other organizations that explore these themes. She and Amy Wilson authored the book Program Evaluation: A Comprehensive Guide in 2012. She served as the president and board member of the American Evaluation Association from 1997 to 2002, and as a member of the Board of Trustees for the International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation from 2002 to 2003. She is the co-editor for the Journal of Mixed Methods Research with Dawn Freshwater.