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Books : Professional & Technical : Education : Theory : Statistics
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This market-leading book offers all the skills and procedures readers need to become competent consumers and producers of educational research. It uses a direct, step-by-step approach to the topic, while placing a strong emphasis on evaluation of reader performance. The accessible writing style and light, humorous tone demystify this demanding course. This comprehensive instructional resource encompasses the full spectrum of the field, making it appropriate as a core book for an introductory course in educational research. Includes expanded coverage of qualitative methods and learning to read and evaluate research effectively. Helps readers develop a complete quantitative research study, a qualitative research design, and an action research design. For professionals in the field of educational research.
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Complete worked-out solutions to all of the Try It Yourself problems, the odd numbered exercises, and all of the chapter review exercises are included.
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This is a comprehensive, flexible introduction to educational research. Its thorough coverage of the steps in the research process (part II), which includes end-of-chapter work sheets, make it suitable for courses that focus on doing research. It's coverage of the six most widely used research methodologies (part III), which includes step-by-step analyses of real research articles, makes it suitable for courses that stress how to read and understand research.
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The Art of Classroom Inquiry shows teachers how they can carefully and systematically pursue their wonderings through research.
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This text brings research alive for educators by introducing readers to people who actually “do” research. It helps readers learn how to locate, read, and interpret and apply the findings of educational research studies. The revision addresses how to design and conduct a research study in more detail. This text brings research alive for educators by introducing readers to people who actually “do” research. It helps readers learn how to locate, read, and interpret and apply the findings of educational research studies. The revision addresses how to design and conduct a research study in more detail. The text includes numerous recent, published research articles involving high-interest problems of educational practice. The chapters, which treat quantitative, qualitative, and applied forms of educational research, stand alone, allowing instructors to choose those they want to cover. Pre-service and in-service teachers and school leaders.
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Written for professional educators and students who need to know how to read research literature properly, this text presents key concepts in the area of research, as well as self-correcting exercises to help the reader understand, analyze, and evaluate educational research.
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Pizza Anyone? Are you a classic pepperoni person? A minimalist (cheese only)? Do your tastes turn toward the exotic, like pineapple and ham? As you will see from the case study on page 44, the most favored pizza topping of 43 per cent of American adults is pepperoni. Now thats a pie chart students can relate to! Prem Manns Introductory Statistics, Third Edition offers cases students can really sink their teeth into. Throughout the Third Edition the case studies deal with the statistics that shape our lives, cases that are relevant and engaging. Examples and exercises taken from the real world step-by-step explanations that make statistics easier to understand a writing style that is clear and concise these are just some of the features of Mann that students consistently praise. Thats why Introductory Statistics remains the most favored statistics text in use in classrooms worldwide! Any Way You Slice it, Mann is The Classroom Favorite!
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"The book is a concise and very readable guide to case study research. It includes a good introduction to the theoretical principles underlying qualitative research, and discusses a wide range of qualitative approaches, namely naturalistic, holistic, ethnographic, phenomenological and biographic research methods. . . . Stake offers some useful practical advice, for example, on how to conduct in-depth interviews, how to analyze qualitative data and on report writing. . . . Stake writes in a rather unusual and very personal style but this makes the text very readable. The author’s obvious passion for research makes the text even more enjoyable and stimulating. . . . the book. . . seems particularly appropriate for those undertaking this type of research in the fields of education and social policy."
--Ivana La Valle in Social Research Association News
"It is gratifying to encounter a text so cogently advocating the case study method (aka: naturalistic fieldwork) as a legitimate knowledge-enhancing endeavor."
--Sala Horowitz in Academic Library Book Review
"I have just finished a qualitative case study based almost entirely on interviews with engineering students. The two sources on which I depended most heavily were Robert E. Stake’s The Art of Case Study Research and Harry F. Wolcott’s Writing Up Qualitative Research. I have heard others sing the praises of different works and I have referred to them, but favor the two mentioned."
--Terry C. Hall, Ed.D., Independent Scholar
"This volume consolidates and elaborates ideas Robert E. Stake articulated in earlier journal articles and chapters in a form that is useful and readily accessible to both practitioners and students of educational research methods. His unusually personal presentation style and innovative format for sharing practical tips through authentic examples add to the main treasure of his new book: an incomparable sophistication about research epistemology and practice. . . . His vast experience in the field and in the classroom and his intimate knowledge of the literature intersect, providing the reader with an unusually comprehensive portrayal of a specialized field. . . . The Art of Case Study Research is a significant contribution to research methodology literature and will undoubtedly assume quick popularity as a text."
--Linda Mabry, Indiana University, Bloomington
"A concise and readable primer for doing case study research, the fruit of many years of experience and wisdom. Robert E. Stake’s book is also valuable as a genuine attempt to integrate, rather than pick arguments with, the best there is of contending approaches to qualitative inquiry."
--A. Michael Huberman, Harvard University and The Network, Inc.
"The Art of Case Study Research is most useful to novices in qualitative inquiry. I could see using it in combination with other texts or readings in an introductory course to qualitative research methods or in a research methods survey course. Because of its readable style and wellspring of examples and helpful suggestions, both graduate and undergraduate students will find the book useful. Researchers seeking to more fully understand the case study approach as perceived by one of the leaders in case study work will also pick up this book. Researchers and policymakers in social service agencies may also be interested because case studies are increasingly part of evaluation strategies."
--Corrine Glesne, University of Vermont
Unique in his approach and style, Robert E. Stake draws from naturalistic, holistic, ethnographic, phenomenological, and biographic methods to present a disciplined, qualitative exploration of case study methods. In his exploration, Stake uses and annotates an actual case, at Harper School, to demonstrate to readers how to resolve some of the major issues of case study research; for example, how to select the case (or cases) that will maximize learning, how to generalize what is learned from one case to another, and how to interpret what is learned from a case. Uniquely, this book legitimizes direct interpretation as a case research method. It covers such topics as the differences between quantitative and qualitative approaches to case study; data gathering, including document review; coding, sorting, and pattern analysis; the roles of the researcher, triangulation; and reporting a case study. Also provided are end-of-chapter "workshops" that help students focus on new concepts.
Written with the inspired and thought-provoking style of a master storyteller, The Art of Case Study Research helps readers chart their way through the labyrinth of case study research.
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Prioritize the state standards on the basis of need.
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Provides comprehensive coverage of educational research. Enables readers to master the basic competencies necessary to understand and evaluate the research of others, as well as plan and conduct their own research.
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This non-technical, hands-on introductory text is supported by up-to-date technology to augment students' comprehension and interpretation of both qualitative and quantitative techniques in educational research methods. This non-technical, hands-on introductory text helps students clearly understand and apply research concepts. This text helps readers learn how to prepare a research plan, gather and analyze data, address research questions and hypotheses, and organize a report of their projects. Pre-service educators or anyone interested in learning more about educational research.
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This classic multivariate statistics book has become the introduction of choice for researchers and students with a minimal mathematics background. In addition to providing a review of fundamental statistical methods, it provides a basic treatment of advanced computer-based multivariate analytical techniques; including correlation and regression analysis, analysis of variance, discriminant analysis, factor analysis, cluster analysis, and multidimensional scaling. The conceptual treatment emphasizes the rationales, applications, and interpretations, rather than the theoretical mathematical aspects of the most commonly used data analysis techniques in use today, closing the gap between spiraling technology and its intelligent application, providing students and researchers with a decided advantage in their future studies and careers.Its conceptual non-mathematical approach is especially helpful to students, researchers, and managers in the social and health sciences, education, and business. It is also the ideal springboard for those who will pursue advanced study of these powerful multivariate techniques.
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B> A classic in its field, Research Methods in Education retains the clear, concise writing style and organization that has made the book so popular. It helps with the evaluation of research literature as well as the mastering of research methodology. It emphasizes the rationale for commonly used research procedures and their applications. The nature of educational research is outlined and the steps in the research process are clearly defined. Because identification of a research problem is so important, the entire second chapter is devoted to this topic. It has been updated with a new chapter on evaluating research papers, additional information on computers and software used in research, and a data disk consisting of three data sets that accompanies the text. The book is broad in scope covering both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies as well as sampling designs, measurement, data collection, preparation of data sets for computer analysis, statistical procedures, and reports. For anyone interested in the research methodology for education and educational psychology.
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Fundamentals of Educational Researchsucceeds in cutting through the complexities of research to give the novice researcher a sound basis to define, develop, and conduct a study, while providing fresh insights for the more accomplished researcher. This book is of value to all social researchers, but in particular to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers employed in private industry, management, and government agencies. Anderson discusses the research process and offers a wealth of information on how to define a research problem, plan a study, develop a research framework, collect the data, analyze it and write it into a credible paper on thesis. He has captured the essential components of the research process in a book that balances the quantitative and qualitative perspectives through both the academic and consulting research traditions.
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A volume in Quantitative Methods in Education and the Behavioral Sciences: Issues, Research, and Teaching(sponsored by the American Educational Research Association’s Special Interest Group: Educational Statisticians)
Series Editor Ronald C. Serlin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
This volume is intended to serve as a didactically-oriented resource covering a broad range of advanced topics often not discussed in introductory courses on structural equation modeling (SEM). Such topics are important in furthering the understanding of foundations and assumptions underlying SEM as well as in exploring SEM as a potential tool to address new types of research questions that might not have arisen during a first course. Chapters focus on the clear explanation and application of topics, rather than on analytical derivations, and contain syntax and partial output files from popular SEM software.
CONTENTS: Introduction to Series, Ronald C. Serlin. Preface, Richard G. Lomax. Dedication. Acknowledgements. Introduction, Gregory R. Hancock & Ralph O. Mueller. Part I: Foundations. The Problem of Equivalent Structural Models, Scott L. Hershberger. Formative Measurement and Feedback Loops, Rex B. Kline. Power Analysis in Covariance Structure Modeling, Gregory R. Hancock. Part II: Extensions. Evaluating Between-Group Differences in Latent Variable Means, Marilyn S. Thompson & Samuel B. Green. Using Latent Growth Models to Evaluate Longitudinal Change, Gregory R. Hancock & Frank R. Lawrence. Mean and Covariance Structure Mixture Models, Phill Gagné. Structural Equation Models of Latent Interaction and Quadratic Effects, Herbert W. Marsh, Zhonglin Wen, & Kit-Tai Hau. Part III: Assumptions. Nonnormal and Categorical Data in Structural Equation Modeling, Sara J. Finney & Christine DiStefano. Analyzing Structural Equation Models with Missing Data, Craig K. Enders. Using Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling Techniques with Complex Sample Data, Laura M. Stapleton. The Use of Monte Carlo Studies in Structural Equation Modeling Research, Deborah L. Bandalos. About the Authors.