Exploring Educational Research Literacy

Jeanne M. McGlinn, Professor of Education, Director of Humanities

University of North Carolina at Asheville

" I would use a text like this to introduce students to the research process and to help them understand the basics of writing a research report. Although the book is intended to teach students how to read research articles, it explains the research report so clearly that students, studying the parts of the research report, could learn how to write such a report effectively. . . I recommend that this book be accepted for publication. It fills an important niche for the instructor looking for a clear, straight-forward explanation of basic research and research report principles."

Lisa C. Yamagata-Lynch, Assistant Professor, ETRA, Northern Illinois University

"I do recommend this book for publication. If published I would use it for my masters level introductory educational research course. This is a book that fills a hole in educational research texts. So many texts are written with the assumption that all graduate students would be engaging in a culminating thesis at the end of their educational career. With the current trend in Master's education especially in the field of education where this is no longer true, students really need to be trained to become wise consumers of research. The purpose of this book exactly meets this need."

Cynthia Ledbetter, Head, Science/Mathematics Education, The University of Texas at Dallas

"The perspective of this book is novel; it is not 'leading edge' but proposes a useful method for helping students make the tnansition from uneducated reader to that of research critic. As precollege teachers seeking master's degrees come more often from business and industry rather than from university certification programs, it is important that they are 'brought up to speed' on the research theory that forms the basis for our field of study. This book would allow those of us who teach at the university level to provide some concrete materials that show how to function in our research world."