Educational Research : An Integrative Introduction

Are your beginning students sometimes overwhelmed by the prospect of reading research articles or writing a research proposal?

Does the notion of educational research make them anxious to begin with?

Is research a mystery to them? This text will help. "Educational Research: An Integrative Introduction" is a brief, basic, paperback alternative to the typically long, weighty, hardcover educational research tome.

It takes a practical approach to educational research for beginning students.

Students who study its chapters critically learn to read research reports and to produce a proposal for their own research project.

Nine complete research reports in Appendix A provide illustrations of major ideas in the text chapters and are used in the end-of-chapter exercises.

The reports read include experimental, descriptive, qualitative, and historical approaches.

The book presents qualitative and quantitative research as complementary approaches to educational research.