Research methods in education / Louis Cohen, Lawrence Manion, and Keith Morrison ; with contributions from Richard Bell ... [et al.].

The nature of enquiry: setting the field
Critical educational research
Evaluation and the politics of educational research
The search for causation
The ethics of educational and social research
Choosing a research project
Planning educational research
Sampling
Sensitive educational research
Validity and reliability
Nauralistic, qualitative and ethnographic research
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 worlds in educational research
Questionnaires
Interviews
Accounts
Observation
Tests
Personal constructs
Role-playing
Visual media in educational research
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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.