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 a considered overview of the principles that underpin research, and key qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods for research design, data collection and analysis.
This fourth edition includes four new chapters on:
Doing a literature review
Measurement and validity
Using R (with RStudio & Tidyverse)
Data transparency, reproducibility, and replicability
In addition, across the book, authors touch on the emergent use of generative AI tools as part of the educational research process. Also, chapters have been reordered to better reflect the research process and to emphasise commonalities between methodological approaches and tools.
This is essential reading for postgraduate students on education courses and early career researchers looking to sharpen their research practice.
1 Introduction - Robert J. Coe
PART I INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH METHODS AND METHODOLOGIES IN EDUCATION
2 The nature of educational research - Robert J. Coe
3 Finding your theoretical position - Michael Waring
PART II BASIC PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE IN CONDUCTING RESEARCH
4 Design of empirical research - Larry V. Hedges
5 Planning your research - Laura Day Ashley
6 Doing a literature review - Laura Day Ashley
7 Inference and interpretation in research - Robert J. Coe
8 Research ethics - Martyn Hammersley
9 Data transparency, reproducibility, and replicability - Larry V. Hedges
PART III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY OVERVIEWS
10 Action research - Niamh O'Brien, Melanie Boyce and Carol Munn-Giddings
11 Naturalistic research - Rob Walker
12 Ethnographic research - Ghazala Bhatti
13 Visual methodologies - Claudia Mitchell
14 Grounded theory - Michael Waring
15 Case study research - Laura Day Ashley
16 Secondary data - Emma Smith
17 Systematic reviews - Carole Torgerson, Jill Hall and Kate Lewis-Light
18 In-depth interviews - Carolyn L. Mears
19 Focus groups and group interviews - Anita Gibbs
20 Internet-based methods - Rhona Sharpe and Greg Benfield
21 Doing social media research - Eve Stirling
22 Questionnaires - Peter Tymms and Vijay Tymms
23 Biographical research - Michael Tedder
24 Methods for observing classroom interactions - Drew H. Gitomer
25 Longitudinal research - Anna Vignoles
26 Impact evaluation - Steve Higgins
27 Interventions: Experiments - Peter Tymms and Vijay Tymms
28 Computational research methods and data science - Christian Bokhove
29 Mixing methods in education research - Gert Biesta
PART IV ANALYSIS METHODS
30 Statistical and correlational techniques - Stephen Gorard
31 Using R with RStudio & Tidyverse - Arend M. Kuyper
32 Statistical hypothesis tests - Michael Borenstein
33 Analysis of variance (ANOVA) - Wendy Chan
34 Multiple linear regression - Stephen Gorard
35 Multilevel analysis - Michael Seltzer and Jordan Rickles
36 Effect size - Robert J. Coe
37 Measurement and validity - Robert J. Coe
38 Meta-analysis - Larry V. Hedges
39 Discourse analysis - Elaine Vaughan
40 Media analysis - Michael Atkinson
PART V COMMUNICATING RESEARCH
41 Disseminating your research - Mike McLinden
