Educational Research

Burke Johnson is a professor in the Professional Studies Department at the University of South Alabama. His PhD 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 (PhD 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.

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