Understanding and Evaluating Educational Research

by James H. McMillan, Sally Schumacher

For courses in Research Methods in Education. Understanding and Evaluating Research , third edition, is a supplemental textbook appropriate for all courses in educational research. A reader, this text contains quantitative and qualitative educational research articles from a variety of professional journals. With each article is a sample article analysis and exercises that help students become better consumers of research. The third edition is greatly enhanced by the inclusion of a new chapter on “Mixed Method Designs” and two mixed-method studies, revised and expanded discussion of qualitative methods, more emphasis given to randomized designs, revision of research typology, and features eight new articles.

Genres: Education

216 pages, Paperback

First published October 19, 1997

Reviews

[Hannah Colston]

Read this for class. It really made things easy to understand and didn’t make research evaluation overwhelming or complicated! Loved that it provided evaluation questions and it had good literature examples in it!!