Educational Research: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Approaches
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Chapter 1. Introduction to Educational Research
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- What is educational research?
- An introduction to action research
- The Goals of Science
- Scientific Method Rap
- Jason J. Campbell Program Evaluation
- How to Best Design Educational Research
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Chapter 2. Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Research
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- What are variables?
- Comparison of quantitative and qualitative research
- John Creswell qualitative and mixed method research
- Nonexperimental research
- An educational case study
- Correlation coefficients
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Chapter 3. Action Research for Lifelong Learning
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- John Dewey and progressive education
- Action research in the classroom (part 1)
- Action research in the classroom (part 2)
- Participatory Action Research project focused on school dropouts
- Actual Action Research project
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Chapter 4. How to Review the Literature and Develop Research Questions
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- Tips for the beginning researcher
- Conducting a literature review
- Planning your research study
- Developing a research question
- Choosing your research methods
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- Searching and evaluating information on the World Wide Web (University of Oregon)
- Searching and evaluating information on the World Wide Web (Berkeley)
- American Psychological Association: Identifying Researchable Psychological Topics
- Checklist for evaluating websites (University of Maryland Libraries)
- Checklist for evaluating websites (University of North Carolina)
Chapter 5. How to Write a Research Proposal
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- How to write a grant proposal
- Writing a research proposal in APA format
- Parts of a research proposal
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Chapter 6. Research Ethics
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- The Tuskegee experiment
- The history of informed consent
- The Belmont Report and research ethics
- Avoiding plagiarism
- Ethical Research with Children
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Chapter 7. Standardized Measurement and Assessment
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- Reliability, validity, and bias
- Reliability and validity
- Scales of measurement
- Educational Assessment
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Chapter 8. How to Construct a Questionnaire
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- What is a questionnaire
- Non-biased questions
- Essential demographic questions
- 10 steps in developing questionnaires
- Interviews and questionnaires
- Rating scales
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Chapter 9. Six Major Methods of Data Collection
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- Series of 12 short videos about interviewing
- How not to collect questionnaire data
- Research Interviews
- Asking why
- The good, bad, and ugly of focus groups
- Using checklists in the classroom
- Time-interval sampling
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Chapter 10. Sampling in Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Research
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- Sampling
- Samples and populations
- Sampling in qualitative research
- Comparing samples in quantitative and qualitative research
- Sampling in mixed research
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Chapter 11. Validity of Research Results in Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Research
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Chapter 12. Experimental Research: Weak and Strong Designs
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- Independent and dependent variables in experiments
- Factorial designs
- Repeated measures designs
- Controlling for confounding variables
- Randomized Control Trials
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Chapter 13. Experimental Research: Quasi and Single-Case Designs
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- Quasi-experimental designs
- Regression-discontinuity design
- Collecting data for single-case research
- Changing criterion designs
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Chapter 14. Nonexperimental Quantitative Research
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- Nonexperimental research
- 3 required conditions for cause-and-effect relationships
- Longitudinal and cross-sectional research
- Survey research part 1
- Survey research part 2
- Survey research part 3
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Chapter 15. Narrative Inquiry and Case Study Research
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- Basic qualitative research methods part 1
- Basic qualitative research methods part 2
- Introduction to postmodernism philosophy
- What is postmodernism?
- Narrative inquiry with Dr. Jean Clandinin
- Narrative inquiry
- Case study research part 1
- Case study research part 2
- Case study research part 3'
- Case study v. experimental research
- Types of case studies
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Chapter 16. Phenomenology, Ethnography, and Grounded Theory
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- Phenomenological research
- Phenomenological studies
- Bracketing
- Ethnography
- Ethnography v. ethnology
- An ethnography about the Bronx
- An ethnography of young children
- Grounded theory
- Introduction to grounded theory
- An example of ground theory research
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Chapter 17. Mixed Research
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- Mixed Methods research
- Rigor and Relevance in Mixed Methods Research
- Managing mixed methods research
- Understanding mixed methods notations
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Chapter 18. Descriptive Statistics
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- Understanding data
- Presenting data
- Running Descriptive Statistics in SPSS
- Getting Data Analysis Tools for Excel (Windows)
- Running Descriptive Statistics in Excel
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Chapter 19. Inferential Statistics
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- Confidence intervals
- Confidence Intervals for the Mean
- Hypothesis testing
- Effect sizes
- p value
- Two sample independent t test with excel
- Two sample independent t test with SPSS
- t statistic and p values
- One sample and dependent groups t test
- One-way ANOVA with SPSS part 1
- One-way ANOVA with SPSS part 2
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_d_pS6-sos&feature=channelTwo-way ANOVA with SPSS
- Linear regression
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Chapter 20. Data Analysis in Qualitative and Mixed Research
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- Analysis of interview data
- Coding
- Qualitative analysis in grounded theory part 1
- Grounded theory axial coding part 2
- Grounded theory selective coding part 3
- NVivo 11 for qualitative data
- ATLAS for qualitative data analysis
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Chapter 21. How to Prepare a Research Report and Use APA Style Guidelines
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- APA (6th ed.) citations
- Citing journal articles in APA style (6th ed.)
- In text citations (APA 6th ed.)
- APA formatting
- How to Create an APA Style Table
- How to Create APA Figures and Graphs in Excel