TY - BOOK AU - Creswell,John W. TI - Educational research: planning, conducting, and evaluating quantitative and qualitative research SN - 9780136135500 (casebound) AV - LB 1028 .C7 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - Upper Saddle River, N.J. PB - Pearson/Merrill Prentice Hall KW - Education KW - Research KW - Methodology N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 650-658) and indexes; The process of conducting research -- Quantitative and qualitative approaches -- 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 -- Experimental designs -- Correlational designs -- Survey designs -- Grounded theory designs -- Ethnographic designs -- Narrative research designs -- Mixed methods designs -- Action research designs UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0716/2007013087.html ER -