Educational Research: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Approaches

by Robert Burke Johnson, Larry B. Christensen

Overview

Educational Research: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Approaches by R. Burke Johnson and Larry Christensen offers a comprehensive, accessible introduction to research methods for undergraduate and graduate students. Readers will develop an understanding of the multiple research methods and strategies used in education and related fields, including how to read and critically evaluate published research and how to write a proposal, construct a questionnaire, and conduct an empirical research study on their own. The Eighth Edition maintains the features that made this book a best-seller, including attention-grabbing chapter-opening vignettes, lively examples that engage student interest, a conversational and friendly writing style, and more. Fully updated for the Seventh Edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, this new edition includes expanded information on research ethics and IRBs, expanded and more current information on sampling and causation across research designs, and the latest thinking on mixed methods research. With the support of this highly readable text, readers will transform into critical consumers and users of research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781071965818
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	10/15/2024
Edition description:	Eighth Edition
Pages:	696
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Burke Johnson is a professor in the Professional Studies Department at the University of South Alabama. His Ph D is from the REMS (research, evaluation, measurement, and statistics) program in the College of Education at the University of Georgia. He also has graduate degrees in psychology, sociology, and public administration, which have provided him with a multidisciplinary perspective on research methodology. He was guest editor for a special issue of Research in the Schools focusing on mixed research (available online at www.msera.org/rits_131.htm) and completed a similar guest editorship for the American Behavioral Scientist. He was an associate editor of the Journal of Mixed Methods Research. Burke is first author of Educational Research: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Approaches (Sage, 2014, 5th edition); second author of Research Methods, Design, and Analysis (Pearson, 2014, 12th edition); coeditor (with Sharlene Hesse-Biber) of The Oxford Handbook of Multimethod and Mixed Methods Research Inquiry (2015); coeditor (with Paul Vogt) of Correlation and Regression Analysis (2012); and associate editor of The SAGE Glossary of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2009).

Larry Christensen (Ph D University of Southern Mississippi) is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of South Alabama. Larry is the author of several successful textbooks and has published more than 60 journal articles.

Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1: Introduction to Educational Research
Chapter 2: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods Research
Chapter 3: Action Research for Lifelong Learning
Part II: Planning the Research Study
Chapter 4: How to Critically Review the Literature and Develop Good Research Questions
Chapter 5: How to Write a Research Proposal
Chapter 6: Research Ethics
Part III: Foundations of Research
Chapter 7: Standardized Measurement and Assessment
Chapter 8: Methods of Data Collection in Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods Research
Chapter 9: How to Construct a Questionnaire
Chapter 10: Sampling in Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods Research
Chapter 11: Validity of Research Results in Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods Research
Part IV: Selecting a Research Method
Section A. Quantitative Research Methods: Five Major Approaches
Chapter 12: Experimental Research: Weak and Strong Designs
Chapter 13: Experimental Research: Quasi and Single-Case Designs
Chapter 14: Nonexperimental Quantitative Research
Section B. Qualitative Research Methods: Five Major Approaches
Chapter 15: Narrative Inquiry and Case Study Research by D. Jean Clandinin and R. Burke Johnson
Chapter 16: Phenomenology, Ethnography, and Grounded Theory
Section C. Mixed Methods Research: Many Approaches
Chapter 17: Mixed Methods Research
Part V: Analyzing the Data
Chapter 18: Descriptive Statistics
Chapter 19: Inferential Statistics
Chapter 20: Data Analysis in Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research
Part VI: Writing the Research Report
Chapter 21: How to Prepare a Research Report and Use APA Style Guidelines

Editorial Reviews

Educational Research contains invaluable wisdom and advice from leading scholars. It is accessible to a wide audience, including management scholars, undergraduate and graduate students majoring in business, and working professionals in the field of management and marketing. I greatly admire this textbook.”

Young Kim

The innovative structure of Educational Research paves the way for students to build a cohesive understanding of the research process and learn to appreciate various approaches to research design without positioning any one paradigm as the ‘default.’”

Christy Galletta Horner

Educational Research provides students the introduction that is needed for them to be both consumers and producers of educational research.”

David Schmid

Educational Research is an excellent textbook that meets the needs for a course based on CACREP standards. Extremely reader friendly with helpful supplemental materials.”

Nancy L. Leech

"This will be a great text and reference for my students. "

Tom Dobbins

"I require this textbook for an introductory research methods graduate course. It really meets the needs of the students, as they find it comprehensive and easy to read, understand, and navigate. "

Gina Coffee

"This is an extensive, and generally thorough, treatment of research design and method. It will prove useful to anyone reading research literature relating to education, as well as those intending to conduct research projects of whatever scale. For what is essentially a reference book, it is surprisingly readable, though at over 600 pages it is perhaps on the large side for a reading on the bus."

Pam Woolner

"This is a superior book with many features that make for an excellent textbook...This text does an excellent job of defining the varying types of research and settles the question of whether qualitative or quantitative is superior for educational research by including mixed research models as a preferred model in some cases...I would recommend [this text] as a "must have" for anyone involved in research and program evaluation and one that an advising office should own."

NACADA - Anita L. Carter

"Comprehensive overview of Research Methodology."

Chapman Frazier