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Educational research : planning, conducting, and evaluating quantitative and qualitative research / John W. Creswell.

By: Creswell, John W [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Delhi : PHI Learning, [2013]Copyright date: ©2012Edition: Fourth edition; Eastern Economy edition.Description: xxii, 650 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9788120343733 (paperback).Subject(s): Education -- Research | Education -- Research -- MethodologyDDC classification: 370.72
Contents:
Part I. An introduction to educational research -- The process of conducting research using quantitative and qualitative approaches -- Part II. The steps in the process of research -- Identifying a research problem -- Reviewing the literature -- Specifying a purpose and research questions or hypotheses -- Collecting quantitative data -- Analyzing and interpreting quantitative data -- Collecting qualitative data -- Analyzing and interpreting qualitative data -- Reporting and evaluating research -- Part III. Research designs -- Experimental designs -- Correlational designs -- Survey designs -- Grounded theory designs -- Ethnographic designs -- Narrative research designs -- Mixed methods designs -- Action research designs.

Bibliography: (pages 631-638) and indexes.

Part I. An introduction to educational research -- The process of conducting research using quantitative and qualitative approaches -- Part II. The steps in the process of research -- Identifying a research problem -- Reviewing the literature -- Specifying a purpose and research questions or hypotheses -- Collecting quantitative data -- Analyzing and interpreting quantitative data -- Collecting qualitative data -- Analyzing and interpreting qualitative data -- Reporting and evaluating research -- Part III. Research designs -- Experimental designs -- Correlational designs -- Survey designs -- Grounded theory designs -- Ethnographic designs -- Narrative research designs -- Mixed methods designs -- Action research designs.