Part I: Introduction -- Introduction to Educational Research -- Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Research -- Action Research for Lifelong Learning -- Part II: Planning the Research Study -- How to Review the Literature and Develop Research Questions -- How to Write a Research Proposal -- Research Ethics -- Part III: Foundations of Research -- Standardized Measurement and Assessment -- How to Construct a Questionnaire -- Methods of Data Collection -- Sampling in Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Research -- Validity of Research Results in Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Research -- Part IV: Selecting a Research Method -- Section A: Quantitative Research Methods: Five Major Approaches -- Experimental Research: Weak and Strong Designs -- Quasi-Experimental and Single-Case Designs -- Nonexperimental Quantitative Research -- Section B: Qualitative Research Methods: Six Major Approaches -- Narrative, Phenomenology, and Case Study by D. Jean Clandinin and Burke Johnson -- Phenomenology, Ethnography, and Grounded Theory -- Historical Research -- Section C: Mixed Methods Research: Many Possibilities -- Mixed Research -- Part V: Analyzing the Data -- Descriptive Statistics -- Inferential Statistics -- Data Analysis in Qualitative and Mixed Research -- Part VI: Writing the Research Report -- How to Prepare a Research Report and Use APA Style Guidelines.