A one-stop shop for anyone undertaking educational research for the first time, this text focuses on the development and application of key skills necessary for successful research.
Packed with useful exercises, checklists and case studies, this book will allow the reader to apply their skills across a range of essays, presentations and reports. Using digestible language to explain complex terminology and processes simply, the authors explore working with and presenting data and the software options available to students, including NVivo, SPSS and Excel. The text will help students to:
- Understand the language of educational research
- Frame their research questions and design their research
- Judge the quality of educational research
- Explore and justify research approaches and procedures (methods)
- Analyse and present their data
Inhoudsopgave
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface
Online Resources
Chapter 1: Carrying Out Educational Research – The Start of Your Journey
Chapter 2: Research, Theory and Worldviews
Chapter 3: Framing the Research
Chapter 4: Literature Review
Chapter 5: Ethics
Chapter 6: Judging the Quality of Educational Research
Chapter 7: Write or Wrong? Conventions and Myths in Academic Literacy
Chapter 8: Research Approaches
Chapter 9: Research Procedures
Chapter 10: Analyzing and Presenting Your Research Data
Chapter 11: Understanding and Applying Qualitative Data Analysis
Chapter 12: Using NVivo in Your Research
Chapter 13: Understanding Quantitative Data Analysis
Chapter 14: Using Excel/SPSS in Your Research
References
Over de auteur
Dr Desma Brown has extensive experience in the teaching of research methods at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. As Director of the MEd at Bradford College she played a key role in supervising numerous students from the initial stages of development of their research proposals through to successful completion of their dissertations. In her role as a visiting lecturer at Bishop Grosseteste University in Lincoln, she also taught research methods and worked with undergraduate Education Studies students in framing their research. Desma’s current role is as the Head of Education for Kaplan Open Learning (University of Essex online). Desma’s research interest is in sociolinguistics and she completed her Ed D in 2016 (Open University), where she used a Discourse Analysis approach to examine how a successful group of final year trainee primary school teachers, used language to collaborate in framing their ideas and working together on an assessment task.
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