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Karen S. Markel – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
This research gathered data from a sample of university students with disabilities (and a control group without disabilities) from two university campuses (one urban and the other suburban). The project examined the current work and school experiences, plans upon graduation, and understanding of major legislation designed to protect against…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, College Students, Semi Structured Interviews, Student Attitudes
McMillan, James H.; Wergin, Jon F. – 1998
This book helps students become better and more informed consumers of published research studies. The book provides students with a systematic approach for first identifying whether an article or report should be considered "research," and then understanding the type of research it is and using criteria to judge the research. The book is meant to…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods, Experiments
Fitz-Gibbon, Carol Taylor; Morris, Lynn Lyons – 1987
The "CSE Program Evaluation Kit" is a series of nine books intended to assist people conducting program evaluations. This volume, the third in the kit, discusses the logic underlying the use of quantitative research designs, including the pretest-posttest design, and supplies step-by-step procedures for setting up and interpreting the…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Experiments
Fink, Arlene – 1995
The nine-volume Survey Kit is designed to help readers prepare and conduct surveys and become better users of survey results. All the books in the series contain instructional objectives, exercises and answers, examples of surveys in use, illustrations of survey questions, guidelines for action, checklists of "dos and don'ts," and…
Descriptors: Costs, Data Collection, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods
Charles, C. M. – 1998
This book is designed to provide knowledge about educational research and to help graduate students in education organize and conduct their own research. No prior familiarity with the principles, procedures, or terminology of educational research is required. Chapters are: (1) "Educational Research: Its Nature and Rules of Operation"; (2) "Types…
Descriptors: Action Research, Correlation, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Mosenthal, Peter, Ed.; And Others – 1983
Designed to alleviate the confusion caused by the existence of a multiplicity of approaches to writing research, the four parts of this book present explicit discussions of research principles and methods used by researchers actively working within a variety of disciplines. The two chapters in Part 1 describe very broad views of the entire…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Experiments, Higher Education, Holistic Approach