Ebook: Research methods in education
Author: Louis Cohen, Lawrence Manion, Keith Morrison
This edition covers the whole range of methods currently employed by educational research at all stages. It includes new material on complexity theory, ethics, sampling, and sensitive educational research.
Content: Part 1. The context of educational research. 1. The nature of inquiry --
setting the field --
pt. 2. Planning educatinal research. 2. The ethics of educational and social research ; 3. Planning educational research ; 4. Sampling ; 5. Sensitive educational research ; 6. Validity and reliability --
pt. 3. Styles of educational research. 7. Naturalistic and ethnographic research ; 8. Historical and documentary research ; 9. Surveys, longitudinal, cross-sectional and trend studies ; 10. Internet-based research and computer usage ; 11. Case studies ; 12. Ex post facto research ; 13. Experiments, quasi-experiments, single-case research and meta-analysis ; 14. Action research --
pt. 4. Strategies ofr data collection and researching. 15. Questionnaires ; 16. Interviews ; 17. Accounts ; 18. Observation ; 19. Tests ; 20. Personal constructs ; 21. Role-playing --
pt. 5. Approaches to quantitative data analysis. 22. Approaches to qualitative data analysis ; 23. Content analysis and grounded theory ; 24. Quantitative data analysis ; 25. Multidimensional measurement and factor analysis ; 26. Choosing a statistical test.
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