Research methods in education / Louis Cohen, Lawrence Manion and Keith Morrison

Contents

PART 1: The context of educational research
1 The nature of enquiry: setting the field
2 Mixed methods research
3 Critical educational research
4 Theory in educational research
5 Evaluation and research
6 The search for causation

PART 2: Research design
7 The ethics of educational and social research
8 Ethics in Internet research
9 Choosing a research project
10 Research questions
11 Research design and planning
12 Sampling
13 Sensitive educational research
14 Validity and reliability

PART 3: Methodologies for Educational Research
15 Qualitative, naturalistic and ethnographic research
16 Historical and documentary research, Jane Martin
17 Surveys, longitudinal, cross-sectional and trend studies
18 Internet surveys
19 Case studies
20 Experiments
21 Meta-analysis, systematic reviews and research syntheses, Harsh Suri
22 Action research
23 Virtual worlds, social network software and netography in educational research, Stewart Martin

PART 4: Methods of Data Collection
24 Questionnaires
25 Interviews
26 Observation
27 Tests
28 Using secondary data in educational research
29 Personal constructs, Richard Bell
30 Role play and research, Carmel O’Sullivan
31 Visual media in educational research

PART 5: Data Analysis and Reporting
32 Approaches to qualitative data analysis
33 Organizing and presenting qualitative data
34 Coding and content analysis
35 Discourses: conversations, narratives and autobiographies as texts
36 Analyzing visual media
37 Grounded theory
39 Statistical significance, effect size and statistical power
40 Descriptive statistics
41 Inferential statistics: difference tests
42 Inferential statistics: Regression analysis and standardization
43 Factor analysis, cluster analysis and structural equation modelling
44 Choosing a statistical test
45 Beyond mixed methods: using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) to integrate cross-case and within-case analyses

Includes bibliographical references and index