Offering an understanding of the principles of educational research, this work is designed to encourage students and professionals to keep current in their respective fields of study and help them to solve problems they encounter in their professional experiences.
Written with the novice educational researcher in mind, this book is designed to help students produce good quality, valid and valuable research. The text is written in an engaging style and adopts a mixed-methods approach. It also features guidance on analytical procedures that…
This text offers researchers valuable insights into the education and social research community. Eight researchers representing contrasting approaches from the UK, New Zealand and North America explain what they do, why they do it, its methodological basis and perceived outcomes.
The field of education is rife with calls to action and for research to improve higher-level thinking and learning outcomes in primary, secondary, and tertiary education. With the No Child Left Behind Act and even more recently the Every Student Succeeds Act, policymakers are ac…
From early answer sheets filled in with number 2 pencils, to tests administered by mainframe computers, to assessments wholly constructed by computers, it is clear that technology is changing the field of educational and psychological measurement. The numerous and rapid advances…
"Conducting Educational Research helped students understand and apply the most important principles of scholarly investigation. Now in its 6th edition, this research textbook includes updates such as a completely rewritten Chapter 12, a chapter devoted to statistical research wi…
"How does Dickens make his readers laugh? What is the distinctive character of Dickensian humour? These are the questions explored in this book on a topic that has been strangely neglected in critical studies over the last half century. Dickens's friend and biographer John Forst…
Calls to understand 'what works' in education are being made the world over. This book helps researchers and readers of research understand, plan and investigate causation in education. It guides readers through statistical matters, and shows them how to investigate qualitative …
This book is designed to help students face the ethical, methodological and theoretical challenges and complexities involved in engaging children in rights-based, participatory research.
This volume considers the significance of research in education. It introduces the student to various methodologies and enables them to conduct their own small scale research projects.