Reading and Understanding Research

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I: The Nature and Uses of Research ReportsChapter 1: The Research ReportChapter 2: When to Believe What You Read: The Sources of CredibilityChapter 3: How to Select and Read Research ReportsChapter 4: The Use, Misuse, and Misunderstanding of ResearchChapter 5: Types of Research: An Overview of VarietyPart II: Quantitative ResearchChapter 6: Quantitative Research DesignsChapter 7: Staying Organized When Reading a Quantitative ReportChapter 8: Explaining as a Tool for Learning to Read ReportsChapter 9: Reading Reports of Quantitative Research-Critically: Things to Notice and Questions to AskPart III: Qualitative ResearchChapter 10: The Paradigms for Qualitative ResearchChapter 11: Staying Organized When Reading a Qualitative ReportChapter 12: Reading Reports of Qualitative Research-Critically: Things the Reader Should ExpectPart IV: Reading Research ReviewsChapter 13: Staying Organized When Reading Research ReviewsAppendix A: Annotated Bibliography of Supplementary ReferencesAppendix B: Statistics: A Beginner's GuideReferencesName IndexSubject IndexAbout the Authors

<p class="Biography"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document" /><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11" /><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11" /><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CSCONNE%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" /><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place" /></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Palatino;">Lawrence F. Locke </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Palatino;">is Professor Emeritus of Education and Physical Education at the <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Massachusetts</st1:placename> at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Amherst</st1:city></st1:place>. A native of <st1:state w:st="on">Connecticut</st1:state>, he received his bachelor's and master's degrees from <st1:placename w:st="on">Springfield</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">College</st1:placetype> and a Ph.D. from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Stanford</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>. He has written extensively on the production and utilization of research on