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Video Resources

• What is educational research?
• An introduction to action research 
• The Goals of Science
• What is program evaluation?
• What is orientational research (also called transformative research)?

Web Resources

• Action Research Special Interest Group
• American Educational Research Association
• American Evaluation Association (program evaluation)
• Center for the Philosophy of Science
• The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University (check out their evaluation “checklists”)
• Definitions of “educational research” provided by the AERA

(a) http://www.aera.net/About-AERA/What-is-Education-Research

(b) http://www.aera.net/About-AERA/Key-Programs/Education-Research-Research-Policy/AERA-Offers-Definition-of-Scientifically-Based-Res

(c) https://www.youtube.com/user/AERANews