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The #1 resource for carrying out educational research as part of postgraduate study.
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Your #1 resource for carrying out educational research as part of postgraduate study. High-quality educational research requires careful consideration of every aspect of the process. This all-encompassing textbook written by leading international experts gives you considered overview of principles that underpin research, and key qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods for research design, data collection and analysis. This third edition includes four new chapters: Disseminating your researchData science and computational research methodsObservational methodsAnalysis of variance (ANOVA) Plus a new Research essentials feature that highlights key 'must-haves' or misconceptions relating to each methodological approach, research design or analytical tool discussed. This is essential reading for postgraduate students on education courses and early career researchers looking to sharpen their research practice.
Author Biography
Robert Coe, Director of Research and Development at Evidence Based Education, Senior Associate at the Education Endowment Foundation and Honorary Professor of Education at Durham University. His research interests focus on the application of research to supporting improvements in educational practice, drawing on experience as a university professor and high school teacher, with particular expertise in evaluation methodology and educational assessment.Dr Michael Waring, Griffith Institute for Educational Research, School of Education and Professional Studies, Griffith University, Australia. He sits on the executive of the Society for Educational Studies, and is on the editorial board of the British Journal of Educational Studies and Higher Education Pedagogies. His research interests focus on the development of inclusive participatory pedagogy, assessment feedback, research literacy and the use of learning technologies as part of distance and blended learning in higher education and initial teacher education contexts. Generally, and as part of the exploration of this personalised learning agenda, he is interested in the use and innovative development of qualitative research methodology.Larry V. Hedges is one of eight Board of Trustees Professors at Northwestern, the university's most distinguished academic position. He holds appointments in statistics and data science, psychology, education and social policy, and medical social sciences. Previously, he was the Stella M. Rowley Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He received the Yidan Prize in Education Research in 2018 and the José Vasconcelos World Award of Education from the World Culture Council in 2023 He is an elected member of the National Academy of Education and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Statistical Association, the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the American Educational Research Association. He is also a member of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, which established an annual endowed lecture in his honor. He was selected to give the inaugural Hedges Lecture in 2016. Hedges was nominated by President Barack Obama to the Board of Directors of the National Board for Education Sciences, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in June 2012, and was elected Chair of the Board in 2016. Widely published, he has authored or co-authored 250 journal articles and 13 books including Coe, Waring, Hedges, & Day Ashley, Research Methods and Methodologies in Education, 3rd edition (2021, Sage London). He has also co-directed research training institutes on research design funded by the US Institute of Education Sciences, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation for the last 20 years.Dr Laura Day Ashley, University of Birmingham, Lecturer and Co-Head of Research and Knowledge Transfer for the Department of Education and Social Justice. She has a background in social anthropology and comparative and international education, with a particular interest in alternative, informal and non-state forms of education provision beyond, or at the margins of, mainstream state schooling. Her research on private and non-state schools in low and middle-income countries has achieved significant and sustained policy impact. She has particular expertise in case study research in multiple contexts, and the development of rigorous literature reviews that assess bodies of evidence derived from both qualitative and quantitative research.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction - Robert J. CoePART I: INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH METHODS AND METHODOLOGIES IN EDUCATIONChapter 2: The nature of educational research - Robert J. CoeChapter 3: Finding your theoretical position - Michael WaringPART II: BASIC PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE IN CONDUCTING RESEARCHChapter 4: Design of empirical research - Larry V. HedgesChapter 5: Planning your research - Laura Day AshleyChapter 6: Inference and interpretation in research - Robert J. CoeChapter 7: Research ethics - Martyn HammersleyChapter 8: Disseminating your research - Mike McLindenPART III: RESEARCH DESIGNSChapter 9: Action research - Carol Munn-GiddingsChapter 10: Naturalistic research - Rob WalkerChapter 11: Ethnographic research - Ghazala BhattiChapter 12: Visual methodologies - Claudia MitchellChapter 13: Grounded theory - Michael WaringChapter 14: Case study research - Laura Day AshleyChapter 15: Secondary data - Emma SmithChapter 16: Longitudinal research - Anna VignolesChapter 17: Statistical and correlational techniques - Stephen GorardChapter 18: Impact evaluation - Steve HigginsChapter 19: Interventions: experiments - Peter TymmsChapter 20: Mixing methods in education research - Gert BiestaChapter 21: Systematic reviews - Carole Torgerson, Jill Hall, Kate Lewis-LightChapter 22: Data science and computational research methods - Christian BokhovePART IV: DATA COLLECTION TOOLSChapter 23: Observational methods - Drew H. GitomerChapter 24: In-depth interviews - Carolyn L. MearsChapter 25: Focus groups and group interviews - Anita GibbsChapter 26: Internet-based methods - Rhona Sharpe and Greg BenfieldChapter 27: Doing social media research - Eve StirlingChapter 28: Documentary methods - Gary McCullochChapter 29: Questionnaires - Peter TymmsPART V: ANALYSIS METHODSChapter 30: Using software in qualitative data analysis - Graham R. GibbsChapter 31: Statistical analysis tools - Paul ConnollyChapter 32: Discourse analysis - Elaine VaughanChapter 33: Media analysis - Michael AtkinsonChapter 34: Biographical research - Michael TedderChapter 35: Statistical hypothesis tests - Michael BorensteinChapter 36: Analysis of variance (ANOVA) - Wendy ChanChapter 37: Multiple linear regression - Stephen GorardChapter 38: Multilevel analysis - Michael Seltzer and Jordan RicklesChapter 39: Effect sizes - Robert J. CoeChapter 40: Meta-analysis - Larry V. Hedges
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Details ISBN1529729637 Language English Year 2021 Edition 3rd ISBN-10 1529729637 ISBN-13 9781529729634 Format Hardcover DEWEY 370.721 Pages 464 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2021-04-29 Author Laura Day Ashley Publication Date 2021-04-29 UK Release Date 2021-04-29 Edition Description 3rd Revised edition Replaces 9781473969797 Alternative 9781529729627 Edited by Laura Day Ashley Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Imprint Sage Publications Ltd Publisher Sage Publications Ltd AU Release Date 2021-04-28 Replaced by 9781529685336 We've got this
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