Introduction to Educational Research Book

1	Educational research : its nature and rules of operation	1
2	Types of educational research and corresponding sources of data	25
3	Selecting, refining, and proposing a topic for research	47
4	Locating published research	71
5	Interpreting and summarizing published research	92
6	Designing a research project	114
7	Procedures and tools for gathering data	137
8	Analyzing research data and presenting findings	168
9	Preparing a research report	193
10	Ethnographic research	224
11	Action research and evaluation research	245
12	Descriptive research and historical research	275
13	Correlational research	295
14	Experimental, quasi-experimental, and causal-comparative research	315
App. A	Overview of statistical concepts and procedures	348
App. B	Using TakeNote! to organize your research reports	371