Practical Research: Planning and Design, Global Edition

Jeanne Ellis Ormrod received her A.B. in psychology from Brown University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in educational psychology from The Pennsylvania State University. She was Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Northern Colorado for 22 years, where she taught courses in research methods and assessment as well as in her academic discipline; she is currently Professor Emerita of Psychological Sciences there. Subsequently, she has also taught research methods at the University of New Hampshire. She has published and presented extensively on cognition and memory, cognitive development, instruction, and related topics but is probably best known for this book and several others: How We Think and Learn, Human Learning, Child Development and Education, Educational Psychology and Essentials of Educational Psychology.

• PART I: THE FUNDAMENTALS 1. THE NATURE AND TOOLS OF RESEARCH PART II: FOCUSING YOUR RESEARCH EFFORTS 2. THE PROBLEM: THE HEART OF THE RESEARCH PROCESS 3. REVIEW OF THE RELATED LITERATURE 4. PLANNING YOUR RESEARCH PROJECT 5. WRITING THE RESEARCH PROPOSAL PART III: RESEARCH DESIGNS 6. DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH 7. EXPERIMENTAL, QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL, AND EX POST FACTO DESIGNS 8. QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS 9. MIXED-METHODS DESIGNS 10. ACTION RESEARCH PART IV: DATA ANALYSES 11. ANALYZING QUANTITATIVE DATA 12. ANALYZING QUALITATIVE AND MIXED-METHODS DATA PART V: RESEARCH REPORTS 13. PLANNING AND PREPARING A FINAL RESEARCH REPORT APPENDICES Appendix A: USING A SPREADSHEET: MICROSOFT EXCEL Appendix B: USING SPSS GLOSSARY