Research methods & methodologies in education /

High-quality educational research requires careful consideration of every aspect of the process. This all-encompassing textbook written by leading international experts gives students and early career researchers a considered overview of principles that underpin research, and key qualitative, quanti...

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Other Authors: Coe, Rob (Editor), Waring, Mike (Editor), Hedges, Larry V. (Editor), Ashley, Laura Day (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, [2021]
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Introduction to research methods and methodologies in education
  • The nature of education research
  • Finding your theoretical position
  • Part II: Basic principles and practice in conducting research
  • Design of empirical research
  • Planning your research
  • Inference and interpretation in research
  • Research ethics
  • Disseminating your research
  • Part III: Research designs
  • Action research
  • Naturalistic research
  • Ethnographic research
  • Visual methodologies
  • Grounded theory
  • Case study research
  • Secondary data
  • Longitudinal research
  • Statistical and correlational techniques
  • Impact evaluation
  • Interventions: experiments
  • Mixing methods in education research
  • Systematic reviews
  • Computational research methods and data science
  • Part IV: Data collection tools
  • Methods for observing classroom interactions
  • In-depth interviews
  • Focus groups and group interviews
  • Internet-based methods
  • Doing social media research
  • Documentary methods
  • Questionnaires
  • Part V: Analysis methods
  • Using software in qualitative data analysis
  • Statistical analysis tools
  • Discourse analysis
  • Media analysis
  • Biographical research
  • Statistical hypothesis tests
  • Analysis of variance (ANOVA)
  • Multiple linear regression
  • Multilevel analysis
  • Effect size
  • Meta-analysis.