Educational research: its nature and rules of operation -- Types of education research and corresponding sources of data -- Selecting, refining, and proposing a topic for research -- Locating publishing research -- Interpreting and summarizing published research -- Designing a research project -- Procedures and tools for gathering data -- Analyzing research data and presenting findings -- Preparing a research report -- Ethnographic research -- Descriptive research and historical research -- Correlational research -- Action research and evaluation research -- Experimental, quasi-experimental, and causal-comparative research

1. Education -- Research