Introduction to Educational Research: A Critical Thinking Approach

by W. Newton Suter

Engaging, informative, and easy to follow, Introduction to Educational A Critical Thinking Approach enables students to think clearly and critically about the scientific process of research. W. Newton Suter′s makes research accessible to teachers and equips them with the skills and understanding that enable the evaluation of published research including quantitative, qualitative, and action research. Suter emphasizes that the ability to think clearly about research methods, reason through complex problems, and evaluate published research are important in today′s changing educational landscape.  Students using this book will understand how and why researchers think like they do.

496 pages, Hardcover

First published September 8, 2005

About the author

W. Newton Suter; of San Francisco State University

Reviews

[Bellatuscana Bellatuscana · Rating 2 out of 5]

Probably the least coherent textbook I've ever read in my life in the most boring, and hard to follow course format I've ever experienced.

The text makes a lot of assertions, and mid-sentence / paragraph, contradicts those assertions without using but or except. It's almost as if the person writing this book was trying their hardest to explain from their brain but failing to see the cognitive leaps we would have to follow without correct syntax.

It's like someone who really loves the physics of triangles, but doesn't walk you through it step by step. The book is packed dense with information, but assumes that students reading this have spent the past 5 years peering over population samples and standard deviation. Idealistic, but not reality.

[Sean Miller · Rating 4 out of 5]

Riveting!