Show students how to get out of the library and into the real world! Teachers can use this excellent guidebook to introduce different types of research and to help their students choose their own questions to research and gather and analyze data in order to answer their research questions. Each chapter of this user-friendly book includes explanations, examples, and practice activities for different steps of the research process.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Getting Started
Students as Researchers
Finding a Research Topic
Interest Assessment
Interest Development
Debriefing
Chapter 2: Focusing Your Problem
Research Questions
Generating Subtopics
Finding a Question
Making Hypotheses
Chapter 3: Types of Research
Descriptive Research
Historical Research
Experimental Research
Correlational Research
Developmental Research
Chapter 4: Gathering Data
Observation
Surveys
Interviews
Document Analysis
Chapter 5: Sample Selection
How Big Is Big Enough?
Teaching Students About Sampling
Choosing a Sample
Chapter 6: Analyzing and Interpreting Data
Data Analysis
Quantitative Analysis
Descriptive Analysis
Inferential Statistics
Drawing Conclusions
Chapter 7: Sharing Results
Identifying Authentic Audiences
Creating Produce Outlets
Choosing a Product: Impact on Audience
Writing a Research Report
Saying Good-bye
References
Appendix A: Table of Random Numbers
Appendix B: Upper %age Points of x2 Distribution
Appendix C: Activity Pages Suitable for Primary Grades
Resources List