Educational Research is a best-selling comprehensive introductory research methods textbook for upper level undergraduate and graduate students. It helps students develop an understanding of the multiple research methods and strategies used in education and related fields, as well as the ability to read and critically evaluate published research.  It also develops their skills in:

• Writing a proposal


• Constructing a questionnaire


• Conducting an empirical research study on their own.

Maintaining its conversational and accessible writing style, this Fifth Edition includes several new chapters:

• Action Research for Lifelong Learning, which helps to set the stage for the rest of the coverage in the book


• Narrative Inquiry and Case Study Research, and Phenomenology, Ethnography, and Grounded Theory, providing expanded guidance on selecting a research method.