Educational Research: Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research, 6th edition

John W. Creswell University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Timothy C. Guetterman University of Michigan

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A practical, step-by-step core research text

Balancing coverage of qualitative, quantitative and combined methods, Educational Research offers a truly inclusive and integrated overview of the processes involved. It first examines the general steps in the research process and then details the procedures for conducting specific types of quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods studies.

In the 6th Edition, examples are now drawn from a broad range of fields including program evaluation, multicultural research, counseling, school psychology, and learning and cognition.

Hallmark features of this title

Annotated research articles help students understand the structure of articles and the key issues to take into account when evaluating the quality and the applicable scope of each particular piece of research.
Useful Information for Consumers of Research features offer tips on interpreting and evaluating research.
Checklists summarize key points such as evaluation criteria used to assess the quality of a study.
Useful Information for Producers of Research features present tips on planning and conducting research.

New and updated features of this title

Quantitative research methods are updated to cover mediating variables, use of online surveys, and additional statistical methods such as intraclass correlation coefficients. A new example of performance assessment and step-by-step examples to calculate t-test and chi-square statistics are provided.
Coverage of quantitative designs is expanded to include causal inferences in experimental designs and more detail about causal comparative research and single-subject designs. The authors provide examples of threats to validity in experimental research. The chapter on survey research is substantially updated to reflect the use of online surveys, methodological considerations and sources for more information.
The chapters on qualitative research are updated, including coverage of qualitative data analysis software and recent developments in qualitative methods. This edition includes a table comparing different approaches to grounded theory, new ethnographic study examples, and developments in narrative research.
The mixed methods chapter is substantially updated to reflect methodological developments, in particular the discussion of integration of qualitative and quantitative data. The authors added recent examples of mixed methods research using convergent, explanatory sequential, exploratory sequential and experimental mixed methods designs.
Broadened examples beyond teacher education reflect the increasingly diverse disciplines and subdisciplines in educational research. The authors include examples of educational research in fields such as program evaluation, multicultural research, counseling, school psychology, learning and cognition, nutrition, sports psychology, education in the professions and other fields.
An expanded emphasis on technology (such as the use of online programs for a table of random numbers, use of online surveys, various databases available, reference tools, and cell-phone random digit dialing). Coverage of reviewing the literature is expanded with an emphasis on current literature database searches, reference management software, and how to synthesize findings from a literature review.

PART 1: An Introduction to Educational Research

The Process of Conducting Research Using Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches

PART 2: The Steps in the Process of Research

Identifying a Research Problem
Reviewing the Literature
Specifying a Purpose and Research Questions or Hypotheses
Collecting Quantitative Data
Analyzing and Interpreting Quantitative Data
Collecting Qualitative Data
Analyzing and Interpreting Qualitative Data
Reporting and Evaluating Research

PART 3: Research Designs

Experimental Designs
Correlational Designs
Survey Designs
Grounded Theory Designs
Ethnographic Designs
Narrative Research Designs
Mixed Methods Designs
Action Research Designs

APPENDICES

Determine Size Using Sample Size Tables
Commonly Used Statistics in Educational Research
Nonnormal Distribution
Strategies for Defending a Research Proposal

Glossary

References

Author Index

Subject Index

About our authors

John W. Creswell, PhD is a Professor of Family Medicine and Co-Director, Michigan Mixed Methods Research and Scholarship Program at the University of Michigan. He has authored numerous articles and 27 books on mixed methods research, qualitative research and research design. While at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, he held the Clifton Endowed Professor Chair, served as director of a mixed methods research office, founded the SAGE journal, the Journal of Mixed Methods Research, and was an Adjunct Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan and a consultant to the Veterans Administration health services research center. He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar to South Africa in 2008 and to Thailand in 2012. In 2011 he co-led a national working group on mixed methods practices at the National Institute of Health, served as a Visiting Professor at Harvard's School of Public Health, and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. In 2014 he was the President of the Mixed Methods International Research Association. In 2015 he joined the staff of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan.

Timothy C. Guetterman, PhD is an applied research methodologist and Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan. His research interests, scholarship and teaching are in research methodology, namely mixed methods research. He has authored numerous articles and chapters, including empirical studies and methodological articles to advance rigorous methods of quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods research. In addition, he is an investigator on 3 U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded research studies. Tim's empirical work uses mixed methods research to investigate the use of technology in health professions education and in educational assessment. He also conducts research on teaching, learning and developing research methods capacity in his role as evaluator and faculty for the NIH-funded Mixed Methods Research Training Program for the Health Sciences. He has extensive professional experience conducting program evaluation with a focus on educational and healthcare programs.

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