BERA/SAGE Handbook of Educational Research (eBook)

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