Fundamentals of Educational Research — Enhanced Pearson eText

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Invigorate learning with the Enhanced Pearson eText
This access code card provides access to the new Enhanced Pearson eText, a rich, interactive learning environment designed to improve student mastery of content with the following multimedia features:

• Chapter Self-Check. Embedded assessments with feedback help readers assess how well they have mastered the content. (See pages 26, 201, and 392 for examples.)
• Thinking Like a Researcher. Interactive activities, with expert feedback, allow the reader to practice specific tasks required for conducting or evaluating a research project. (See pages 26, 201, and 392 for examples.)

Fundamentals of Educational Research introduces you to the basic principles of this type of research, including how to conduct it and the criteria for evaluating its overall credibility. The text also uses numerous excerpts from published studies to help you become an intelligent consumer of educational research.

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Accessible, contemporary, and thoughtful, this book educates students to become intelligent consumers of educational research and introduces basic research principles to those who may eventually use research in their work. Principles for conducting research and criteria for evaluating its overall credibility are presented in a concise manner, with numerous excerpts from published studies to enable students to learn to read, understand, and evaluate research and to judge the usefulness of the findings for educational practice. The text facilitates student learning with the inclusion of chapter objectives, roadmaps and concept maps, study questions, consumer tips, more than 175 examples from published articles, several full length articles, and author reflections.

Invigorate learning with the Enhanced Pearson eText
This access code card provides access to the new Enhanced Pearson eText, a rich, interactive learning environment designed to improve student mastery of content with the following multimedia features:

• Chapter Self-Check. Embedded assessments with feedback help readers assess how well they have mastered the content. (See pages 26, 201, and 392 for examples.)
• Thinking Like a Researcher. Interactive activities, with expert feedback, allow the reader to practice specific tasks required for conducting or evaluating a research project. (See pages 26, 201, and 392 for examples.)

From reviews of the book:

“This textbook provides more detailed and clearer explanations of complex research topics than other textbooks in this topic area. Overall, my students seem to enjoy using this textbook and find it to be helpful in their journey of learning about educational research.”  — Rebekah Cole, Old Dominion University

“The inclusion of research examples and excerpts from published articles are excellent visuals for students just beginning their journey of research and critical thinking. The “Consumer Tips” section is an innovative way to sum up the topics … I find the author’s reflections a valuable resource for the students. It’s a way to personally connect with the readers.”  — Rebecca D Hunt, Northern Illinois University

For courses in Introduction to Research Methods (Educational Research)

Accessible, contemporary, and thoughtful
Fundamentals of Educational Research educates students to become intelligent consumers of educational research and introduces basic research principles to those who may eventually use research in their work. Principles for conducting research and criteria for evaluating its overall credibility are presented in a concise manner, with numerous excerpts from published studies to enable students to learn to read, understand, and evaluate research and to judge the usefulness of the findings for educational practice. The text facilitates student learning with the inclusion of chapter objectives, roadmaps and concept maps, study questions, consumer tips, more than 175 examples from published articles, several full length articles, and author reflections.

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