The BERA/SAGE handbook of educational research. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Handbook of educational research; Educational research
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Dominic Wyse, Neil Selwyn, Emma Smith, Larry E. Suter.
• Editors: Wyse, Dominic, 1964-; (Professor), Smith, Emma; Selwyn, Neil; Suter, Larry
• Contents: Introduction - Editors; PART 01: UNDERSTANDING RESEARCH; 01 Reasons for Education Research - Ian Menter; 02 The role of theory in research - Mary Lou Rasmussen; 03 The Ethics of Research - Hannah Farrimond; 04 Shared principles of causal inference in qualitative and quantitative research - Sean Kelly; 05 The Validity and Reliability of Research: A Realist Perspective - Joseph A. Maxwell; PART 02: PLANNING RESEARCH; 06 Approaches to Reviewing Research in Education - Jill Denner, Erica Marsh & Shannon Campe; 07 Purposes for Educational Research - Peter Tymms; 08 Research Questions in Education Research: their neglect, role and development - Patrick White; 09 An introduction to the importance of research design - Stephen Gorard; 10 A positivist orientation: hypothesis testing and the 'scientific method' - Roger Gomm; 11 Interpretivism as a Theory of Knowledge - David Scott; 12 Unpacking Pragmatism for Mixed Methods Research: The Philosophies of Peirce, James, Dewey, and Rorty - R. Burke Johnson, Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie, Cornelis de Waal, Tres Stefurak & David Hildebrand; 13 Sampling Decisions in Educational Research: Criteria, Designs, Challenges - Kathleen Collins; PART 03: APPROACHES TO RESEARCH; 14 Historical Research - Gary McCulloch; 15 Using International Comparative Studies in Achievement in Educational Research - Larry E. Suter; 16 Ethnography - Sara Delamont; 17 Grounded Theory - Robert Thornberg; 18 Case Study Research - Malcolm Tight; 19 Surveys: longitudinal, cross-sectional and trend studies - Alice Sullivan & Lisa Calderwood; 20 True Experimental designs - Carole J. Torgerson & David J. Torgerson; 21 Lighting a Spark, Seeing the Light: Educational Action Research as Transformative Practice - Mary Brydon-Miller, Maricar Prudente & Socorro Aguja; 22 Systematic review and Meta-Analysis - Sandy Oliver & Janice Tripney; 23 Mixed Methods Approaches and their Application in Educational Research - Pamela Sammons & Susila Davis; 24 Using Secondary Data Analysis for Educational Research - Pamela E. Davis-Kean & Justin Jager; 25 Researching in digital environments - Rebecca Eynon; PART 04: ACQUIRING DATA; 26 Access, Sites and Settings - Jerry West; 27 Observation and recording classroom processes - Frank Hardman & Jan Hardman; 28 Personal experience methods in practitioner research - Amanda Berry & Monica Taylor; 29 Multimodality, Meaning and Data Analysis - Mark Nelson; 30 Research Interviews - Amir Marvasti & Carrie Freie; 31 Surveys and Questionnaires - Stacey Bielick; 32 Measurement - Stephen G. Sireci & Joshua Marland; PART 05: ANALYSING DATA; 33 Cataloguing and organizing data - Susan Jekielek; 34 The Role of Theory in Quantitative Data Analysis - Terri D. Pigott; 35 Descriptive statistics - Jeffrey T. Steedle; 36 Inferential statistics - Paul E. Jose & Agnes Szabo; 37 How should numeric data be analysed? - Stephen Gorard; 38 Coding and Analyzing Qualitative Data - Barbara B. Kawulich; 39 Conversation Analysis - Myrte Gosen & Tom Koole; 40 Discourse analysis/Critical discourse analysis - Christoph A. Hafner; 41 Content Analysis - James B. Schreiber & Lyndsie N. Ferrara; 42 Confirmatory Factor Analysis - Betsy McCoach & Sarah D. Newton; 43 Logistic Regression - Chao-Ying Joanne Peng; 44 Multilevel modelling for educational data - Harvey Goldstein; 45 Big Data and Educational Research - Roser Beneito-Montagut; PART 06: REPORTING, DISSEMINATING & EVALUATING RESEARCH; 46 Generalizability - Guillermo Solano-Flores; 47 Writing about research - Pat Thomson; 48 Communicating Research Findings - Mark Rickinson; 49 Social media and academic publishing - Inger Mewburn & Pat Thomson; 50 Evaluation of and Accountability for Individual and Institutional Research on Education - Larry E. Suter; 51 Using Research Findings - Chris Brown;
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Los Angeles : SAGE
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 370.72; Education -- Research; Education -- Methodology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781473987999
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