Education Research

Acknowledgements

2.4. Permissions

2.5. Management

2.1. Inferential Statistics

2.3. Qualitative Rigor

2.4. Design-Based Research

2.5. Mixed Methods

3.1. Positivism

3.2. Interpretivism

3.3. Critical Theory

3.5. Postmodernism

3.6. Pragmatism

3. Learning Theories

3.1. Behaviorism

3.2. Cognitivism

3.3. Constructivism

3.4. Socioculturalism

3.5. Connectivism

4.2. Quantitative Rigor

4.5. Instruments

5. Data Collection

5.1. Interventions

5.2. Experiments

5.4. Naturalistic Observations

5.5. Interviews

5.6. Focus Groups

5.1. Descriptive Statistics

6.2. Qualitative Coding

6.3. Interpretation

6.4. Significance

6.6. Correlation

7.2. Transparency

7.6. Other Scholarship

Appendix A. Supplements

Common Statistical Formulas and Equations

Index of Methods

Appendix B. Example Studies

Example Study #1. Public comment sentiment on educational videos

Example Study #2. Effects of open textbook adoption on teachers' open practices

Appendix D. Software Examples

SEM in R (using Lavaan)

Appendix C. Historical Readings

Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)

On the Origin of Species (1859)

Science and the Savages (1905)

Theories of Knowledge (1916)

Theories of Morals (1916)

Experimentation

Saturation: The point in qualitative research wherein no additional categories are being developed or no novel findings are arising, suggesting that the researcher can reasonably stop sampling new participants.

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