This rewritten, expanded and updated 7th edition of the long-running bestseller Research Methods in Education encompasses the whole range of methods currently employed by educational research at all stages. It offers plentiful and rich practical advice, underpinned by clear theoretical foundations, research evidence and up-to-date references. Chapters new to this edition cover: Causation, critical educational research, evaluation and the politics of research, including material on cross-cultural research, mixed methods and participatory research.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The context of educational research. The nature of enquiry : setting the field -- Critical educational research -- Evaluation and the politics of educational research -- The search for causation -- Planning educational research. The ethics of educational and social research -- Choosing a research project -- Planning educational research -- Sampling -- Sensitive educational research -- Validity and reliability -- Styles of educational research. Naturalistic, qualitative and ethnographic researach -- Historical and documentary research in education -- Surveys, longitudinal, cross-sectional and trend studies -- Case studies -- Ex post facto research -- Experiments, quasi-experiments, single-case research and internet-based experiments -- Meta-analysis, research syntheses and systematic reviews -- Action research -- Virtual world in educational research / Stewart Martin.
Strategies and instruments for data collection and researching. Questionnaires -- Interviews -- Accounts -- Observation -- Tests -- Personal constructs / Richard Bell -- Role-playing / Carmel O' Sullivan -- Visual media in educational research -- Data Analysis. Approaches to qualitative data analysis -- Organizing and presenting qualitative data -- Coding and content analysis -- Discourses : conversations, narratives and autobiographies as texts -- Analysing visual media -- Grounded theory -- Approaches to quantitative data analysis -- Descriptive statistics -- Inferential statistics -- Multidimensional measurement and factor analysis -- Choosing a statistical test.
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