W. Newton Suter received his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology in 1983 from Stanford University. He is Professor in Educational Foundations in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where he frequently teaches courses in research, statistics, measurement, and educational psychology. Dr. Suter's research interests include healthcare education, health literacy, and home health education, and he has written several textbooks and various journal articles.
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Preface Part I: Foundations Chapter 1: Educators as Critical Thinkers Chapter 2: Thinking About Research Chapter 3: Diversity of Educational Research Part II: Research as Process Chapter 4: The Research Problem Chapter 5: Research Language Chapter 6: Theory and Practice Part III: Data Collection Chapter 7: Research Bias and Control Chapter 8: Sampling in Research Chapter 9: Measurement in Research Part IV: Design and Analysis Chapter 10: Common Experimental Research Designs Chapter 11: Common Non-Intervention Research Designs Chapter 12: Qualitative Data, Analysis, and Design Chapter 13: Statistical Data Analysis Part V: Consumer to Producer Chapter 14: Research Analysis and Critique Chapter 15: Writing Research Proposals Glossary References Index
"The Suter text has a critical thinking approach that engages students and makes the topics meaningful and connected." -- David K Pugalee "I would very likely recommend this textbook to colleagues. I will also consider adopting this textbook for my course. I like the readability of the text as well as the examples given by the author to help the reader understand the topics." -- Tracy Walker ". . . the explanations of statistical procedures, examples of real research projects and their problems, and the chapter-end application exercises are so well done." -- Pamela Murphy