Neil Selwyn & Larry E. Suter 
The BERA/SAGE Handbook of Educational Research [EPUB ebook] 

Education has continued to grow in stature and significance as an academic discipline. In addition to world renowned research studies the growth of education has been seen in the methodology and methods underpinning its research. The BERA/SAGE Handbook of Educational Research provides a cutting edge account of the research and methodology that is creating new understandings for education research, policy and practice. Over two volumes, the handbook addresses educational research in six essential components: Section 1: Understanding Research Section 2: Planning Research Section 3: Approaches to Research Section 4: Acquiring Data Section 5: Analysing Data Section 6: Reporting, Disseminating and Evaluating Research Featuring contributions from more than 50 of the biggest names in the international field, The BERA/SAGE Handbook of Educational Research represents a very significant contribution to the development of education.

Innehållsförteckning

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

Om författaren

Emma Smith is Reader in Education at the University of Birmingham