Research methods in education / by Louis Cohen, Lawrence Manion and Keith Marrison

Includes bibliography and index.

PART I : THE CONTEXT OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH : The nature of enquiry : setting the field -- Mixed methods research -- Critical educational research -- Theory in educational research -- Evaluation and research --The search for causation -- PART II : RESEARCH DESIGN : The ethics of educational and social research -- Ethics in internet research -- Choosing a research project -- Research question -- Research design and planning -- Sampling -- Sensitive educational research -- Validity and reliability -- PART III : METHODOLOGIES FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH : Qualitative, naturalistic and ethnographic research -- Historical and documentary research -- Surveys, longitudinal, cross-sectional and trend studies -- Internet survey -- Case studies -- Experimental -- Meta-analysis, systematic reviews and research syntheses -- Action research -- Virtual worlds, social network software and netography in education research -- PAT IV : METHODS OF DATA COLLECTION : Questionnaires -- Interviews -- Observation -- Tests -- Using secondary data in educational research -- Personal constructs -- Role-play and research -- Visual media in educational research -- PART V : DATA ANALYSIS AND REPORTING : Approaches to qualitative data analysis -- Organizing and presenting qualitative -- Coding and content analysis -- Analysng visual media -- Grounded theory -- Approaches to quantitative data analysis -- Statistical significance, effect size and statistical power -- Descriptive statistics -- Inferential statistics : different tests -- Inferential statistics : regression analysis and standardization -- Factor analysis, cluster analysis and structure equation modeling -- Choosing a statistical test -- Beyond mixed methods : using qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to integrate cross-case and within-case analyses