Research Methods in Education

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Cohen, Louis

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TextPublication details: Routledge 2015 OxonEdition: 7th edDescription: 758pISBN:

9780415583367

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370.72 COH

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Part I: The context of educational research
1. The nature of enquiry: setting the field
2. Critical educational research
3. Evaluation and the politics of educational research
4. The search for causation

Part II: Planning educational research
5. The ethics of educational and social research
6. Choosing a research project
7. Planning educational research
8. Sampling
9. Sensitive educational research
10. Validity and reliability

Part III: Styles of Educational Research
11. Nauralistic, qualitative and ethnographic research
12. Historical and documentary research in education
13. Surveys, longitudinal, cross-sectional and trend studies
14. Case studies
15. Ex post facto research
16. Experiments, quasi-experiments, single-case research and internet-based experiments
17. Meta-analysis, research syntheses and systematic reviews
18. Action research
19. Virtual worlds in educational research

Part IV: Strategies and Instruments for Data Collection And Researching
20. Questionnaires
21. Interviews
22. Accounts
23. Observation
24. Tests
25. Personal constructs
26. Role-playing
27. Visual media in educational research

Part V: Data Analysis
28. Approaches to qualitative data analysis
29. Organizing and presenting qualitative data
30. Coding and content analysis
31. Discourses: conversations, narratives and autobiographies as texts
32. Analysing visual media
33. Grounded theory
34. Approaches to quantitative data analysis
35. Descriptive statistics
36. Inferential statistics
37. Multidimensional measurement and factor analysis
38. Choosing a statistical test

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