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

By: Cohen, Louis, 1928-Contributor(s): Manion, Lawrence | Morrison, Keith (Keith R. B.)Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2011. Edition: 7th edDescription: xxii, 758 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cmISBN: 9780415583350 (hard cover); 9780415583367 (soft cover)Subject(s): Education -- Research -- Great BritainDDC classification: 370.72 LOC classification: LB1028 | .C572 2011Online resources: WorldCat details

Contents:

TOC 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.

Summary: Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Text	Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU Reserve Section	Non-fiction	370.72 COR 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-1	Not For Loan		26017

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

TOC 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.

Summary:
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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