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Educational Research: Fundamentals for the Consumer, Sixth Edition

James H. McMillan

“Our faculty reviewed all the available texts in the field and feltEducational Research best fit our needs. We teach this course to a wide variety of students in a variety of majors (counseling, physical education, curriculum and instruction, educational administration, etc.) and it did the best job of providing for all these individual needs.”

–Steve Neill, Emporia State University

“I think the features add a nice element and are helpful for students to better understand the text. I direct students to the research articles and use some of the charts and tables in my lectures."

–Anastasia Elder, Mississippi State University

Designed to help students become intelligent consumers of educational research, the sixth edition of this text introduces basic research principles to those who may later use research in their work. The author utilizes aids to facilitate student learning, including chapter learning objectives, concept maps, study questions, and more than 150 examples from published articles, including full-length articles.

New features in this edition include the following:

• NEW! Chapter 11 on mixed-method designs provides more detail about these increasingly popular designs.
• NEW! Chapter 12 on action research provides more guidelines for students to conduct action research.
• NEW! Learning objectives at the beginning of all chapters help to orient and focus students on important concepts and principles.
• Includes 150 examples and exerpts from published articles representing more than 50 different journals to illustrate the range of current thinking.
• Revised Chapter 1, which discusses the nature of research consistent with Scientific Research in Education.
• Expanded treatment of qualitative data analysis in response to instructors' needs.
• Includes more detail about research ethics.
• Examples and excerpts from published articles representing more than 50 different journals to illustrate the range of current thinking.