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Research methods in education / Louis Cohen and Lawrence Manion.

By: Cohen, Louis, 1928-.
Contributor(s): Manion, Lawrence.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London ; Dover, N.H. : Croom Helm, c1985Edition: 2nd ed.Description: 383 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. + pbk.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0709934386.Subject(s): Education -- Research | Education -- Research -- Great BritainDDC classification: 370.72

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This fifth edition of a bestselling textbook is thoroughly updated with more on current developments in research practice, action research, developments in ICT, questionnaire design, ethnographic research, conducting needs analysis, constructing and using tests, observational methods, reliability and validity, ethical issues, and curriculum research.

Bibliography: p. 361-373 - Includes index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction
  • 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 Research Design Issues - Planning Research
  • 4 Sampling
  • 5 Reliability, Validity and Triangulation
  • Part 3 Styles of Educational Research
  • 6 Naturalistic and Ethnographic Research
  • 7 Historical Research
  • 8 Surveys, Longitudinal, Cross-Sectional and Trend Studies
  • 9 Case Studies
  • 10 Correlational Research
  • 11 Ex Post Facto Research
  • 12 Experiments, Quasi-Experiments and Single-Case Research
  • 13 Action Research
  • Part 4 Strategies for Data collection and Researching
  • 14 Questionnaires
  • 15 Interviews
  • 16 Accounts
  • 17 Observations
  • 18 Tests
  • 19 Personal Constructs
  • 20 Multi-Dimensional Measurement
  • 21 Role Playing
  • Part 5 Recent Developments in Educational Research
  • 22 Recent Developments