Reading and Understanding Research - Softcover

Locke, Lawrence F.; Silverman, Stephen; Spirduso, Waneen W.

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9780761903079: Reading and Understanding Research

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ISBN 10: 0761903070 ISBN 13: 9780761903079

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1998

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There is no way to complete one′s education without encountering a research report. Navigating through the mysteries of reports is the subject of this helpful volume.

The authors, presuming their readers have no special background in research, begin by introducing and framing the notion of reading research within a wider social context. Next, they offer insight on when to seek out research, locating and selecting the right reports, and how to help evaluate research for trustworthiness. A step-by-step reading of reports from both qualitative and quantitative studies follows, and the final chapters examine in greater detail the different types of research to be encountered and how to examine the research more critically.

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About the Author:

Lawrence F. Locke is Professor Emeritus of Education and Physical Education at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. A native of Connecticut, he received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Springfield College and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. He has written extensively on the production and utilization of research on teaching and teacher education. He has authored a number of books designed to assist non-specialists with the tasks of reading and understanding research. After many years residing in Sunderland, MA he now makes his home on Cape Cod, but with his wife, Professor Lorraine Goyette, he has spent much of each year writing, running, and exploring the Beartooth Mountains at Sky Ranch in Reed Point, MT.

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