Educational and Psychological Research: A Cross-Section of Journal Articles for Analysis and Evaluation

By Mildred Patten

Book Overview

- This edition of our popular reader is entirely updated with timely articles that deal with broad issues in education and psychology. (For a research reader with emphasis on classroom issues, see A Cross Section of Educational Research.)

- This collection shows students the many inherent weaknesses of empirical methods as well as models of excellence. Unlike research readers that contain made-up articles, this one has both face validity and content validity. Your students will appreciate reading real articles with real results.

- The 34 research articles illustrate: -qualitative research
-combined qualitative/quantitative research
-content/documentary analysis
-correlational research
-test validity and reliability research
-causal-comparative research
-true experimental research
-quasi-experimental research
-pre-experimental research
-program evaluation
-meta-analysis

- The lines are numbered sequentially, making it easy to refer to specific parts of each article during classroom discussions.

- This single source of research articles is convenient for you and your students.

- Easy to coordinate with any research methods text, this reader is an ideal way to make research methods come alive Field-tested for student interest and comprehension.

- All major methods of research are illustrated with real research articles drawn from a wide variety of journals. (See Table of Contents.)

- Your students will become familiar with a wide variety of writing and organizational styles that real researchers use. Despite their variety, all articles in this book are highly comprehensible.

- Factual Questions at the end of each article encourage students to read for mythological points they might otherwise overlook.

- Questions for Discussion encourage students to address broad issues of research design. An instructor's answer key will be shipped with your examination copy.

- The interesting research topics will make your students look forward to doing their research reading homework.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1884585450
• ISBN13: 9781884585456
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 10.9"