"This international student edition is for use outside the U.S." -- Cover

PART 1: INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH -- Chapter1: The Nature of Educational Research -- PART 2: THE BASICS OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH -- Chapter 2: The Research Problem -- Chapter 3: Variables and Hypotheses -- Chapter 4: Ethics and Research -- Chapter 5: Locating and Reviewing Literature -- Chapter 6: Sampling -- Chapter 7: Instrumentation -- Chapter 8: Validity and Reliability -- Chapter 9: Internal Validity -- PART 3: DATA ANALYSIS -- Chapter 10: Descriptive Statistics -- Chapter 11: Inferential Statistics -- Chapter 12: Statistics in Perspective -- PART 4: QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES -- Chapter 13: Experimental Research -- Chapter 14: Single-Subject Research -- Chapter 15: Correlational Research -- Chapter 16: Causal-Comparative Research -- Chapter 17: Survey Research -- PART 5: INTRODUCTION TO QUALITATIVE RESEARCH -- Chapter 18: The Nature of Qualitative Research -- Chapter 19: Observation and Interviewing -- Chapter 20: Content Analysis -- PART 6: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES -- Chapter 21: Ethnographic Research -- Chapter 22: Historical Research -- PART 7: MIXED-METHODS STUDIES -- Chapter 23: Mixed-Methods Research -- PART 8: RESEARCH BY PRACTITIONERS -- Chapter 24: Action Research -- PART 9: WRITING RESEARCH PROPOSALS AND REPORTS Chapter 25: Preparing Research Proposals and Reports -- Appendix A: Portion of a Table of Random Numbers -- Appendix B: Selected Values from a Normal Curve Table -- Appendix C: Chi-Square Distribution -- Appendix D: Using SPSS