Fundamentals of Educational Research, 7th edition

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• Check Your Understanding of chapter content. Exercises matched to chapter learning outcomes help readers apply the concepts and ensure that they master the learning outcomes. Exercises and suggested feedback are provided in the Pearson eText.
• Thinking Like a Researcher. Interactive activities, with expert feedback, allow the reader to practice specific tasks required for conducting or evaluating a research project.

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Additional text features include:

• Guidelines for evaluating research.  Consumer Tips emphasize the skills needed to judge research critically.
• A researcher’s “voice.”  Author Reflections introduce the reader to practices, controversies, and challenges from the researcher’s perspective, in conversational language that encourages the reader to consider his or her own views on the topic.
• Application and context.  Using Educational Research feature situates key topics in context, emphasizing how both the research processes and the research results can be applied to address contemporary problems.
• New chapter on ethics, ethical principles, and ethical practices of both researchers and consumers.  (Chapter 2)
• New chapter on qualitative data collection and analysis procedures. (Chapter 12)
• Extensively revised chapter on reviewing literature, reflecting the current process of using multiple electronic sources to locate published studies. The chapter also now includes discussion of using a literature matrix and a literature map to organize the review. (Chapter 4)
• Complete published articles, which familiarize students with the style and format of published articles and introduce students to the language of research. 
• New excerpts from 175 recently published research articles on a variety of topics, selected from 70 different journals to illustrate chapter concepts and different writing styles. 
• New material on mixed methods studies, including developing relevant questions (Chapter 3), sampling (Chapter 5), and research designs (Chapter 13).
• More emphasis on research design, with clear differentiation and greater detail about nonexperimental quantitative designs (Chapter 8) and the inclusion of narrative designs (Chapter 11).
• Greater emphasis throughout on how to conduct research.

Invigorate learning with the Enhanced Pearson eTextThe Enhanced Pearson eText provides a rich, interactive learning environment designed to improve student mastery of content with the following multimedia features:

• Check Your Understanding of chapter content. Exercises matched to chapter learning outcomes help readers apply the concepts and ensure that they master the learning outcomes. Exercises and suggested feedback are provided in the Pearson eText.
• Thinking Like a Researcher. Interactive activities, with expert feedback, allow the reader to practice specific tasks required for conducting or evaluating a research project.

Students can experience the advantages of the Enhanced Pearson eText along with all the benefits of print for 40% to 50% less than a print bound book! Students, register for or purchase your eText at pearsonhighered.com/etextbooks. Instructors, visit pearsonhighered.com/etextbooks to register for your digital examination copy.

Key content changes include:

• New chapter on ethics, ethical principles, and ethical practices of both researchers and consumers. (Chapter 2)
• New chapter on qualitative data collection and analysis procedures. (Chapter 12)
• Extensively revised chapter on reviewing literature, reflecting the current process of using multiple electronic sources to locate published studies. The chapter also now includes discussion of using a literature matrix and a literature map to organize the review. (Chapter 4)
• Complete published articles, which familiarize students with the style and format of published articles and introduce students to the language of research.
• New excerpts from 175 recently published research articles on a variety of topics, selected from 70 different journals to illustrate chapter concepts and different writing styles.
• New material on mixed methods studies, including developing relevant questions (Chapter 3), sampling (Chapter 5), and research designs (Chapter 13).
• More emphasis on research design, with clear differentiation and greater detail about nonexperimental quantitative designs (Chapter 8) and the inclusion of narrative designs (Chapter 11).
• Greater emphasis throughout on how to conduct research.