Doing your research project : a guide for first-time researchers in education and social science / Judith Bell.
By: Bell, Judith
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Contributor(s): Open University.
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BookPublisher: Buckingham : Open University Press, 1993Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xii,176p : ill ; 22cm + pbk.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0335190944 (m); 9780335190942.Subject(s): Education -- Research | Education -- Research -- Methodology | Independent study | Social sciences -- Research | Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology | Educational: General studies / study skills general | Social research & statisticsDDC classification: 370.78 BEL Summary: This guide aims to provide the tools to do a research project, to help avoid some of the pitfalls and to establish good research habits. It takes you from the stage of choosing a topic through to the production of a well-planned, methodologically sound and well-written final report.
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Previous ed.: 1987.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This guide aims to provide the tools to do a research project, to help avoid some of the pitfalls and to establish good research habits. It takes you from the stage of choosing a topic through to the production of a well-planned, methodologically sound and well-written final report.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part 1 Preparing the ground Approaches to educational research
- Planning the project
- Negotiating access, ethics and the problems of 'inside' research
- Keeping records, making notes and locating libraries
- Finding and searching information sources
- The literature review
- Part 2 Selecting methods of data collection Introduction
- The analysis of documentary evidence
- Designing and administering questionnaires
- Planning and conducting interviews
- Diaries Observation studies
- Part 3 Interpreting the evidence and reporting the findings Introduction
- Interpretation and presentation of the evidence
- Writing the report
- Postscript
- References
- Index