Applied Guide to Research Designs: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods 2nd Revised edition

This guide aims to use consistent terminology to outline the most practical and common research designs for education and the social and behavioral sciences. Incorporating relevant peer-reviewed articles as examples for each design, it describes quantitative methods for experimental, quasi-experimental, and nonexperimental research; qualitative methods; and mixed methods. This edition has expanded coverage of research designs, new examples, a new chapter on action research, and updated ancillaries. Other changes include more on the survey approach, expanded discussion of the switching-replication design, an expanded chapter on the single-case approach, and new appendices on statistical analysis, qualitative data analysis, and writing and summing up preliminary statistical analysis. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
The objective of An Applied Guide to Research Designs: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods, Second Edition is to visually present, with consistent terminology, quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research designs in education and the social and behavioral sciences in a way that students and researchers can readily understand and accurately apply in their own investigations. Authors W. Alex Edmonds and Thomas D. Kennedy have designed the text to improve one's ability to conceptualize, construct, test, problem solve and acquire knowledge, all of which are characteristics of scientific inquiry and the creative process required when conducting research. This book is meant to cover the most practical and common research designs currently used in educational and the social and behavioral sciences.