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Educational Research: Competencies for Analysis and Applications (Book alone) (9th Edition) (MyEducationLab Series) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Lorrie R. Gay, Geoff Mills, Peter W. Airasian
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Category: Book
List Price: $106.33
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Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 18881
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 9
Pages: 648
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.9
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 8.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0132338777
Dewey Decimal Number: 370.72
EAN: 9780132338776
Publication Date: March 29, 2008
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Book Description
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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 Easy Reading Research February 13, 2007
Barbara A. Austin (Michigan City, Indiana USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Learning how to decipher the technical jargon surrounding research is never easy. This book makes it easy. Along with thorough explanations and an abundance of examples, there is a bit of humor tossed in. The humor helps break up the intense explanations. There are also many charts and graphs that help synthesize the information into an easy learning format. I would recommend this book for anyone who has to learn about research.
Helpful Textbook August 11, 2006
wendybear (Los Angeles, CA USA)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
My only complaint about it was that the cover is warped. I bought a new book, had it delivered next-day, and it won't close properly.
The book has a lot of good information in it. I can see why my instructor chose it for the course in which I am enrolled.
Educational Research November 13, 2000
Bobbi Walker (Quincy, Il United States)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
Educational Research: Competencies for Analysis and Application 6th Edition is an excellent introductory text to assist in writing a Master's thesis or Research paper. The book is well organized and will take you step-by-step through the process of educational research. It begins with selecting and defining a problem, gives strategies to prepare and evaluate a research plan, selecting measuring instruments, also includes the different types of research, to analyzing and interpretaing statistics, and to writing your final research report. This book teaches the importance of reviewing and analyzing your research related literature and includes samples of educational research reports. Excellent summaries are included at the end of each chapter. It is a great resource and my book is earmarked and tabbed throughout as I am working on my Master's Degree Action Research paper.
Educational Research: Competencies for Analysis and Applicat November 27, 2000
Kerri Leeser (LaGrange, Missouri)
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
As the introduction to Educational Research states, "one out of every two introductory educational research students uses this book." It is no surprise that college professors use this text because it is well written. The material is both in depth and reader friendly. The text takes you though a step-by-step process of planning, conducting, and evaluating research. Anyone who is struggling with writing a Master's Thesis will find the book to be a most helpful resource tool. The material is presented with a straight forward approach (along with some humor), and the book also provides useful chapter summaries and actual research reports. From a personal standpoint, the book is just that much better because it was written by a woman in a time when a woman with a brilliant mind was considered to be dangerous.
Nuts and Bolts of Writing a Research Paper November 19, 2000
Sue Welch (Quincy, IL USA)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book, Educational Research, by L. R. Gay and Peter Airasian is an excellent source with an immense amount of information on how to conduct a research project and write the research paper.Although the main emphasis is on action research in the educational setting, this book provides easy to understand, step by step directions for any research project including choosing a topic, gathering research from both existing materials as well as collecting and analyzing new data, and stucturing the actual final written presentation. Different types of action research, measuring instruments and statistical analyzing methods were also covered thoroughly. The chapters about methods of gathering data were described in great detail. I found the text easy to read (even the more difficult concepts) and explained well enough for a beginning researcher but with valuable information for the veteran, also. The text structure is reader friendly and reviews many of the major concepts in subsequent chapters. I especially found the examples intertwined with the text and the chapter summaries very helpful. Tables and charts were clear and well designed. The authors' style of writing makes the reader feel as if he/she were merely having a very easy discussion about a very difficult idea. After reading this text, anyone would feel more confident with the daunting task of conducting and presenting an action research project.
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