Understanding and evaluating educational research - James H. McMillan

Understanding and Evaluating Research, third edition, is a supplemental textbook appropriate for all courses in educational research.
A reader, this text contains quantitative and qualitative educational research articles from a variety of professional journals.
With each article is a sample article analysis and exercises that help students become better consumers of research.
The third edition is greatly enhanced by the inclusion of a new chapter on "Mixed Method Designs" and two mixed-method studies, revised and expanded discussion of qualitative methods, more emphasis given to randomized designs, revision of research typology, and features eight new articles.