Buch, Englisch, 1070 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 246 mm
Buch, Englisch, 1070 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 246 mm
ISBN: 978-1-032-75673-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
This rewritten, expanded, and updated ninth edition of the long-running bestseller Research Methods in Education is a comprehensive and accessible guide covering all issues, methods, and stages of educational research.
Drawing together theoretical foundations and practical issues with up-to-date references and discussions, the book explores key topics in theory and practice, offering guidance on planning, conducting, and evaluating educational research. Designed as a practical guide, this must-read text is underpinned by rigorous research evidence, professional experience, and educational principles. It takes novice researchers through the fundamentals while providing advanced theoretical insights that support progression, making it an invaluable single-reference point for experienced researchers and academics.
New chapters in this edition include:
• Artificial Intelligence and education research methods
• Ethnographies
• Historical and documentary research in education
• Randomised controlled trials
• Replication research
• Systematic reviews and meta-analysis
• Personal constructs
Research Methods in Education is essential reading for anyone undertaking, understanding, or using educational and social research, whether using methods for the first time, or as a professional, and experienced researcher. The book is supported by an Instructor and Student Resources website which includes a range of online support materials such as PowerPoint slides, tasks, questions, and activities for every chapter, SPSS and NVivo data sets, and further supplementary material. Visit: routledgelearning.com/researchmethodsineducation
Zielgruppe
Postgraduate and Undergraduate Core
Autoren/Hrsg.
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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. The search for causation
6. Artificial Intelligence and education research methods
PART 2: Research design
7. The ethics of educational research
8. Ethics in internet research
9. Determining the 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 and naturalistic research
16. Ethnographic research
17. Historical and documentary research in education
18. Surveys, longitudinal, cross-sectional, and trend studies
19. Case studies
20. Randomised controlled trials
21. Further experimental designs
22. Systematic reviews and meta-analysis
24. Replication research
PART 4: Methods of data collection
25. Questionnaires
26. Interviews
27. Observation
28. Tests
29. Using secondary data in educational research
30. Personal constructs
31. Visual media in educational research
PART 5: Data processing, analysis, and reporting
32. Approaches to qualitative data analysis
33. Organising and presenting qualitative data
34. Coding, thematic analysis, and content analysis
35. Discourses: conversations, narratives, and autobiographies as texts
36. Analysing visual media
37. Grounded theory
38. Approaches to quantitative data analysis
39. Statistical significance, effect size, and statistical power
40. Descriptive statistics
41. Inferential statistics: difference tests
42. Inferential statistics: Regression analysis and standardisation
43. Factor analysis, cluster analysis, structural equation modelling, and multilevel modelling
44. Choosing a statistical test
