Research methods in education

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Boxes......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 18
Introduction......Page 20
Part One: The context of educational research......Page 22
1 The nature of inquiry – Setting the field......Page 24
Part Two: Planning educational research......Page 68
2 The ethics of educational and social research......Page 70
3 Planning educational research......Page 97
4 Sampling......Page 119
5 Sensitive educational research......Page 138
6 Validity and reliability......Page 152
Part Three: Styles of educational research......Page 184
7 Naturalistic and ethnographic research......Page 186
8 Historical and documentary research......Page 210
9 Surveys, longitudinal, cross-sectional and trend studies......Page 224
10 Internet-based research and computer usage......Page 245
11 Case studies......Page 272
12 Ex post facto research......Page 283
13 Experiments, quasi-experiments, single-case research and meta-analysis......Page 291
14 Action research......Page 316
Part Four: Strategies for data collection and researching......Page 334
15 Questionnaires......Page 336
16 Interviews......Page 368
17 Accounts......Page 403
18 Observation......Page 415
19 Tests......Page 433
20 Personal constructs......Page 454
21 Role-playing......Page 467
Part Five: Data analysis......Page 478
22 Approaches to qualitative data analysis......Page 480
23 Content analysis and grounded theory......Page 494
24 Quantitative data analysis......Page 520
25 Multidimensional measurement and factor analysis......Page 578
26 Choosing a statistical test......Page 605
Notes......Page 612
Bibliography......Page 618
Index......Page 652