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Beschreibung

Practical Research is an engaging, cross-disciplinary guide to research methodology. The text is your do-it-yourself, how-to manual for planning and conducting research. Suitable for a wide variety of courses in basic research methodology, the book uses a conversational tone, step-by-step instructions, and practical suggestions to guide you from the selection of a problem to the preparation of a completed report.

The 13th Edition includes the latest technology-based strategies and tools for conducting and planning research. Other key updates include a greater focus on the ethics of research, new illustrative examples from a range of disciplines, expanded discussions of action research and participatory designs, and more.

Practical Research is an engaging, cross-disciplinary guide to research methodology. The text is your do-it-yourself, how-to manual for planning and conducting research. Suitable for a wide variety of courses in basic research methodology, the book uses a conversational tone, step-by-step instructions, and practical suggestions to guide you from the selection of a problem to the preparation of a completed report.

The 13th Edition includes the latest technology-based strategies and tools for conducting and planning research. Other key updates include a greater focus on the ethics of research, new illustrative examples from a range of disciplines, expanded discussions of action research and participatory designs, and more.

Über den Autor

Jeanne Ellis Ormrod received her A.B. in psychology from Brown University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in educational psychology from The Pennsylvania State University. She was Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Northern Colorado for 22 years, where she taught courses in research methods and assessment as well as in her academic discipline; she is currently Professor Emerita of Psychological Sciences there. Subsequently, she has also taught research methods at the University of New Hampshire. She has published and presented extensively on cognition and memory, cognitive development, instruction, and related topics but is probably best known for this book and several others: How We Think and Learn, Human Learning, Child Development and Education (co-authored with Teresa McDevitt), Educational Psychology (9th and 10th editions co-authored with Eric Anderman and Lynley Anderman), and Essentials of Educational Psychology (5th and 6th editions co-authored with Brett Jones). She now lives in New Hampshire with her husband Richard, with one of her three children and her three grandchildren living nearby.

Inhaltsverzeichnis
PART I: The Fundamentals
  1. The Nature, Tools, and Ethics of Research
PART II: Focusing Your Research Efforts
  • The Problem: The Heart of the Research Process
  • Review of the Related Literature
  • Planning a Research Project
  • Writing a Research Proposal
  • PART III: Research Designs
  • Descriptive Research
  • Experimental, Quasi-Experimental, and Ex Post Facto Designs
  • Qualitative Research Methods
  • Mixed-Methods Designs
  • Action Research and Participatory Designs
  • PART IV: Data Analyses
  • Analyzing Quantitative Data
  • Analyzing Qualitative and Mixed-Methods Data
  • PART V: Research Reports
  • Planning and Preparing a Final Research Report
  • Appendices
  • Using a Spreadsheet: Microsoft Excel
  • Using SPSS
  • Two Examples of a Dissertation Outline
  • Details
    Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
    Fachbereich: Kommunikationswissenschaften
    Genre: Importe, Medienwissenschaften
    Rubrik: Wissenschaften
    Medium: Taschenbuch
    Reihe: Pearson Education Limited
    Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
    ISBN-13: 9781292449586
    ISBN-10: 1292449586
    Sprache: Englisch
    Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
    Autor: Ormrod, Jeanne
    Hersteller: Pearson Education Ltd
    Pearson Education Limited
    Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
    Maße: 275 x 210 x 27 mm
    Von/Mit: Jeanne Ormrod
    Erscheinungsdatum: 19.07.2023
    Gewicht: 1,142 kg
    Artikel-ID: 125981361