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Author Shank, Gary D., author

Title Understanding education research : a guide to critical reading / Gary Shank, Launcelot Brown, Janice Pringle
Published Boulder, CO : Paradigm Publishers, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 140 pages)
Contents Research literacy and the research critic -- Basic approaches in educational research -- Types of research articles -- Understanding titles and abstracts -- Understanding purposes and rationales -- Understanding questions and arguments -- Understanding references -- Understanding methods and procedures -- Understanding quantitative results and findings -- Understanding qualitative results and findings -- Understanding discussions and conclusions -- Advanced concepts and techniques -- The research path
Summary Designed to help students learn to read educational research articles carefully, systematically, and critically. Students learn to categorize titles, decode abstracts, find research questions, characterize research arguments, break down methods and procedures, explore references, apply analysis strategies, and interpret findings
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Education -- Research -- Methodology
EDUCATION -- Essays.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION -- Reference.
Education -- Research -- Methodology.
Form Electronic book
Author Brown, Launcelot, author
Pringle, Janice, author
ISBN 9781612056814
1612056814