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Research methods in education

Cohen, Louis Manion, Lawrence Routledge (Abington, Oxon, 2011) (eng) English 9780415583367 Unknown 7th ed. EDUCATION-RESEARCH-GREAT BRITAIN; Unknown 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.

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xxii, 758 p. 25 cm. Unknown

Summary / review / table of contents

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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