Education Research Available to Purchase

I need to start this review by stating this fact: WHAT A USEFUL AND AMAZING BOOK! With so much focus by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Education on education research in the past 20 years, the topic of discipline-based education research has taken on a greater meaning in K–12 science classrooms, in school districts, and in higher education across the nation. Primarily written for academic scientists who want to learn more about how discipline-based science-education research is conducted, this book is a well-grounded, data-laden introduction to the philosophical and practical differences between more familiar scientific research and the more unfamiliar category of social science research. The authors give teachers do-it-yourself guidance for getting discipline-based education research projects off the ground. In doing so, they provide a platform for assisting both first-time and experienced researchers in designing and conducting effective education research....