Fundamentals of Educational Research helps you become an intelligent consumer of educational research and understand basic research principles. Principles for conducting research and criteria for evaluating its overall credibility are presented in a concise manner, with excerpts from published studies that enable you to learn to read, understand, and evaluate research and to judge the usefulness of the findings for educational practice. The 8th Edition has been fully revised and includes a new chapter on qualitative data analysis, a new chapter on writing research proposals, new research articles, excerpts, and more.