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Research Methods in Education

Research Methods in Education

ByLouis Cohen, Lawrence Manion, Keith Morrison
Edition 7th Edition
First Published 2011
eBook Published 7 March 2013
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9780203720967
Pages 784 pages
eBook ISBN 9780203720967
SubjectsDevelopment Studies, Environment, Social Work, Urban Studies, Education, Health and Social Care, Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing & Allied Health, Social Sciences
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Cohen, L., Manion, L., Morrison, K. (2011). Research Methods in Education. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203720967

This rewritten, expanded and updated 7th edition of the long-running bestseller Research Methods in Education encompasses the whole range of methods currently employed by educational research at all stages. It offers plentiful and rich practical advice, underpinned by clear theoretical foundations, research evidence and up-to-date references.

Chapters new to this edition cover:

Causation, critical educational research, evaluation and the politics of research, including material on cross-cultural research, mixed methods and participatory research

Choosing and planning a research project, including material on sampling, research questions, literature reviews and ethical issues

Meta-analysis, research syntheses and systematic reviews

Virtual worlds and internet research

Using and analysing visual media and data in educational research

Organizing and presenting qualitative data, content analysis, coding and computer analysis, themes, narratives, conversations and discourses, grounded theory

Understanding and choosing statistical tests, descriptive and inferential statistics, multi-dimensional measurement and factor analysis

Research Methods in Education is essential reading for both the professional researcher and students of education at undergraduate and postgraduate level, who need to understand how to plan, conduct, analyse and use research.

The textbook is accompanied by a website: www.routledge.com/textbooks/cohen7e. PowerPoint slides for every chapter contain an outline of the chapter structure followed by a thorough summary of the key points, ideal for both lecturers and students.  Within the book a variety of internet resources are referred to and these references have been included here, with links to the websites.  A wide range of supplementary documents are available for many chapters, providing additional guidance and examples.  They range from guidelines for the contents of a research proposal with a worked example, to screen-print manuals for using SPSS and QSR N6 NUD*IST (exportable to N-Vivo) plus data files.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part 1 The context of educational research
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chapter 1|28 pages
1 The nature of enquiry: setting the field
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chapter 2|17 pages
2 Critical educational research
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chapter 3|6 pages
Evaluation and the politics of educational research
chapter 4|19 pages
The search for causation
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part |2 pages
Part 2 Planning educational research
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chapter 5|30 pages
The ethics of educational and social research
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chapter 6|10 pages
6 Choosing a research project
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chapter 7|28 pages
7 Planning educational research
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chapter 8|22 pages
Sampling
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chapter 9|14 pages
Sensitive educational research
chapter 10|38 pages
Validity and reliability
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part |2 pages
Part 3 Style of educational research
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chapter 11|29 pages
Naturalistic, qualitative and ethnographic research
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chapter 12|8 pages
Historical and documentary research in education
ByGARY MCCULLOCH
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chapter 13|33 pages
Surveys, longitudinal, cross- sectional and trend studies
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chapter 14|14 pages
Case studies
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chapter 15|9 pages
Ex post facto research
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chapter 16|23 pages
Experiments, quasi- experiments, single- case research and internet- based experiments
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chapter 17|9 pages
Meta- analysis, research syntheses and systematic reviews
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chapter 18|18 pages
action research
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chapter 19|13 pages
Virtual worlds in educational research
BySTEWART MARTIN
part |2 pages
Part 4 Strategies and instruments for data collection and researching
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chapter 20|32 pages
Questionnaires
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chapter 21|35 pages
Interviews
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chapter 22|12 pages
accounts
chapter 23|20 pages
Observation
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chapter 24|20 pages
Tests
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chapter 25|14 pages
Personal constructs
ByRICHARD BELL
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chapter 26|18 pages
role- playing
ByCARMEL O’SULLIVAN
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chapter 27|7 pages
Visual media in educational research
part |2 pages
Part 5 Data analysis
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chapter 28|10 pages
approaches to qualitative data analysis
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chapter 29|12 pages
Organizing and presenting qualitative data
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chapter 30|15 pages
Coding and content analysis
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chapter 31|14 pages
Discourses: conversations, narratives and autobiographies as texts
chapter 32|10 pages
analysing visual media
chapter 33|6 pages
Grounded theory
chapter 34|18 pages
approaches to quantitative data analysis
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chapter 35|19 pages
Descriptive statistics
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chapter 36|31 pages
Inferential statistics
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chapter 37|25 pages
Multidimensional measurement and factor analysis
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chapter 38|8 pages
Choosing a statistical test
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