Table of Contents

Part 1: The Context of Educational Research 1. The Nature of Inquiry Part 2: Planning Educational Research 2. The Ethics of Educational and Social Research 3. Planning Educational Research 4. Sampling 5. Sensitive Educational Research 6. Validity and Reliability Part 3: Styles of Educational Research 7. Naturalistic and Ethnographic Research 8. Historical and Documentary Research 9. Surveys, Longitudal, Cross-Sectional and Trend Studies 10. Internet-Based Research and Computer Usage 11. Case Studies 12. Ex Post Facto Research 13. Experiments, Quasi-Experiments, Single-Case Research and Meta-Analysis 14. Action Research Part 4: Strategies for Data Collection and Researching 15. Questionnaires 16. Interviews 17. Accounts 18. Observation 19. Tests 20. Personal Constructs 21. Role Playing Part 5: Data Analysis 22. Approaches to Qualitative Data Analysis 23. Content Analysis and Grounded Theory 24. Quantative Data Analysis 25. Multi-Dimensional Measurement and Factor Analysis 26. Choosing a Statistical Test