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Author: Peter Newby

Research Methods for Education 2nd Edition Table of contents:

Part 1 The Context for Your Research

Chapter 1 Research: A messy business

Learning themes

Introduction

1.1 What do you put first?

1.2 Who is this text for?

1.3 Why do we do educational research?

1.4 Who are the educational researchers?

1.5 What are the objectives of educational research?

1.6 Some guidelines on research

1.7 Finally, some things we ought to know about educational research before we start

1.8 Is research a messy business?

Summary

Further reading

References

Chapter 2 Understanding the research process

Learning themes

Introduction

Part A: Context for research

2.1 The influence of ideas and values

2.2 Context: Ideas that influence your goals and outcomes

Part B: Research practice

2.3 Selecting a research issue

2.4 First stages in preparing a research proposal

Summary

Further reading

References

Chapter 3 Putting your research design together

Learning themes

Introduction

Part A: Context for research

3.1 An overview of research approaches

Part B: Research practice

3.2 Research styles

3.3 Outlining your research strategy

Summary

Further reading

References

Part 2 The Process of Data Collection

Chapter 4 Data: Assembling the research toolkit

Learning themes

Introduction

Part A: Context for research

4.1 The character of data

4.2 Primary and secondary data

Part B: Research practice

4.3 Secondary data sources

Summary

Further reading

References

Chapter 5 Using literature in research

Learning themes

Introduction

Part A: Context for research

5.1 The use and misuse of other people’s research

Part B: Research practice

5.2 Strategies for literature search

5.3 Preparing a literature review

Summary

Further reading

References

Chapter 6 Getting the right information

Learning themes

Introduction

Part A: Context for research

6.1 From data to information

6.2 Research planning

6.3 Sampling – being able to say something sensible

Part B: Research practice

6.4 Sampling procedure

6.5 How should we choose which sampling method to use?

6.6 How large should a sample be?

6.7 What can go wrong with a sample?

Summary

Further reading

References

Chapter 7 Cracking the research question

Learning themes

Introduction

Part A: Context for research

7.1 How to construct a route to data

Part B: Research practice

7.2 Getting good data

7.3 Taking stock and preparing for the next step

Summary

Further reading

References

Chapter 8 Asking questions

Learning themes

Introduction

Part A: Context for research

8.1 Elements of a questionnaire

Part B: Research practice

8.2 Developing a questionnaire

8.3 Methods of scaling

8.4 The structure and layout of questionnaires

8.5 Administering the questionnaire

8.6 Piloting the questionnaire

8.7 And finally

Summary

Further reading

References

Chapter 9 Talking, listening and watching: other approaches to data collection

Learning themes

Introduction

Part A: Context for research

9.1 Talking and listening: the context for individual and group interviews

9.2 Watching and listening: the context for observation as a data collection method

Part B: Research practice

9.3 Interviewing in practice

9.4 The practice of observation

Summary

Further reading

References

Part 3 The Process of Data Analysis

Chapter 10 Extracting the information from statistical data

Learning themes

Introduction

Part A: Context for research

10.1 Making numbers talk

Part B: Research practice

10.2 Reading a data set

10.3 Portraying data

Summary

Further reading

References

Chapter 11 Extracting the information from qualitative data sets

Learning themes

Introduction

Part A: Context for research

11.1 Qualitative research: a complex field

Part B: Research practice

11.2 A federation of research practices

11.3 An introduction to qualitative approaches to data analysis

Summary

Further reading

References

Chapter 12 Extracting information from quantitative data

Learning themes

Introduction

Part A: Context for research

12.1 The context for describing by number

Part B: Research practice

12.2 In practice: describing with numbers

Finally: thinking about data description

Summary

Further reading

References

Chapter 13 Using statistics to say something significant

Learning themes

Introduction

Part A: Context for research

13.1 The context for statistical testing

Part B: Research practice

13.2 The practice of testing

13.3 The practice of testing for difference

13.4 The practice of testing relationships

Summary

Further reading

References

Chapter 14 Putting it all together

Learning themes

Introduction

Part A: Context for research

14.1 Pointers to a research strategy

Part B: Research practice

14.2 Styles of research

14.3 Preparing a case for a research programme

14.4 Benefiting from education research

Summary

Further reading

References

Appendix 1: Calculating sample size

Appendix 2: Calculating critical values for the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test

Glossary

Index

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