Tabella dei contenuti
Introduction – Editors
PART 01: UNDERSTANDING RESEARCH
01 Reasons for Education Research – Ian Menter
02 The role of theory in research – Mary Lou Rasmussen
03...
Tabella dei contenuti
Introduction – Editors
PART 01: UNDERSTANDING RESEARCH
01 Reasons for Education Research – Ian Menter
02 The role of theory in research – Mary Lou Rasmussen
03 The Ethics of Research – Hannah Farrimond
04 Shared principles of causal inference in qualitative and quantitative research – Sean Kelly
05 The Validity and Reliability of Research: A Realist Perspective – Joseph A. Maxwell
PART 02: PLANNING RESEARCH
06 Approaches to Reviewing Research in Education – Jill Denner, Erica Marsh & Shannon Campe
07 Purposes for Educational Research – Peter Tymms
08 Research Questions in Education Research: their neglect, role and development – Patrick White
09 An introduction to the importance of research design – Stephen Gorard
10 A positivist orientation: hypothesis testing and the ′scientific method′ – Roger Gomm
11 Interpretivism as a Theory of Knowledge – David Scott
12 Unpacking Pragmatism for Mixed Methods Research: The Philosophies of Peirce, James, Dewey, and Rorty – R. Burke Johnson, Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie, Cornelis de Waal, Tres Stefurak & David Hildebrand
13 Sampling Decisions in Educational Research: Criteria, Designs, Challenges – Kathleen Collins
PART 03: APPROACHES TO RESEARCH
14 Historical Research – Gary Mc Culloch
15 Using International Comparative Studies in Achievement in Educational Research – Larry E. Suter
16 Ethnography – Sara Delamont
17 Grounded Theory – Robert Thornberg
18 Case Study Research – Malcolm Tight
19 Surveys: longitudinal, cross-sectional and trend studies – Alice Sullivan & Lisa Calderwood
20 True Experimental designs – Carole J. Torgerson & David J. Torgerson
21 Lighting a Spark, Seeing the Light: Educational Action Research as Transformative Practice – Mary Brydon-Miller, Maricar Prudente & Socorro Aguja
22 Systematic review and Meta-Analysis – Sandy Oliver & Janice Tripney
23 Mixed Methods Approaches and their Application in Educational Research – Pamela Sammons & Susila Davis
24 Using Secondary Data Analysis for Educational Research – Pamela E. Davis-Kean & Justin Jager
25 Researching in digital environments – Rebecca Eynon
PART 04: ACQUIRING DATA
26 Access, Sites and Settings – Jerry West
27 Observation and recording classroom processes – Frank Hardman & Jan Hardman
28 Personal experience methods in practitioner research – Amanda Berry & Monica Taylor
29 Multimodality, Meaning and Data Analysis – Mark Nelson
30 Research Interviews – Amir Marvasti & Carrie Freie
31 Surveys and Questionnaires – Stacey Bielick
32 Measurement – Stephen G. Sireci & Joshua Marland
PART 05: ANALYSING DATA
33 Cataloguing and organizing data – Susan Jekielek
34 The Role of Theory in Quantitative Data Analysis – Terri D. Pigott
35 Descriptive statistics – Jeffrey T. Steedle
36 Inferential statistics – Paul E. Jose & Agnes Szabo
37 How should numeric data be analysed? – Stephen Gorard
38 Coding and Analyzing Qualitative Data – Barbara B. Kawulich
39 Conversation Analysis – Myrte Gosen & Tom Koole
40 Discourse analysis/Critical discourse analysis – Christoph A. Hafner
41 Content Analysis – James B. Schreiber & Lyndsie N. Ferrara
42 Confirmatory Factor Analysis – Betsy Mc Coach & Sarah D. Newton
43 Logistic Regression – Chao-Ying Joanne Peng
44 Multilevel modelling for educational data – Harvey Goldstein
45 Big Data and Educational Research – Roser Beneito-Montagut
PART 06: REPORTING, DISSEMINATING & EVALUATING RESEARCH
46 Generalizability – Guillermo Solano-Flores
47 Writing about research – Pat Thomson
48 Communicating Research Findings – Mark Rickinson
49 Social media and academic publishing – Inger Mewburn & Pat Thomson
50 Evaluation of and Accountability for Individual and Institutional Research on Education – Larry E. Suter
51 Using Research Findings – Chris Brown
