Research methods in education / Louis Cohen, Lawrence Manion and Keith Morrison.

Includes bibliographies and index.

This thoroughly updated and extended eighth edition of the long-running bestseller Research Methods in Education covers the whole range of methods employed by educational research at all stages. Its five main parts cover the context of educational research, research design, educational research methodologies, data collection methods, and data analysis and reporting. It continues to be the go-to text for students, academics, and researchers who are undertaking, understanding, and using educational research, and it has been translated into several languages. It offers plentiful and rich practical advice underpinned by clear theoretical foundations, research evidence, and up-to-date references, and it raises key issues and questions for researchers planning, conducting, reporting, and evaluating research.

PART 1: The context of educational research -- 1. The nature of inquiry: setting the field -- 2. Mixed methods research -- 3. Critical educational research -- 4. Theory in educational research -- 5. Evaluation and research -- 6. The search for causation -- PART 2: Research design -- 7. The ethics of educational and social research -- 8. Ethics in Internet research -- 9. Choosing a research project -- 10. Research questions -- 11. Research design and planning -- 12. Sampling -- 13. Sensitive educational research -- 14. Validity and reliability -- PART 3: Methodologies for Educational Research -- 15. Qualitative, naturalistic and ethnographic research -- 16. Historical and documentary research / Jane Martin -- 17. Surveys, longitudinal, cross-sectional and trend studies -- 18. Internet surveys -- 19. Case studies -- 20. Experiments -- 21. Meta-analysis, systematic reviews and research syntheses / Harsh Suri -- 22. Action research -- 23. Virtual worlds, social network software and netography in educational research / Stewart Martin -- PART 4: Methods of Data Collection -- 24. Questionnaires -- 25. Interviews -- 26. Observation -- 27. Tests -- 28. Using secondary data in educational research -- 29. Personal constructs / Richard Bell -- 30. Role play and research / Carmel O'Sullivan -- 31. Visual media in educational research -- PART 5: Data Analysis and Reporting -- 32. Approaches to qualitative data analysis -- 33. Organizing and presenting qualitative data -- 34. Coding and content analysis -- 35. Discourses: conversations, narratives and autobiographies as texts -- 36. Analyzing visual media -- 37. Grounded theory -- 39. Statistical significance, effect size and statistical power -- 40. Descriptive statistics -- 41. Inferential statistics: difference tests -- 42. Inferential statistics: Regression analysis and standardization -- 43. Factor analysis, cluster analysis and structural equation modelling -- 44. Choosing a statistical test -- 45. Beyond mixed methods: using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) to integrate cross-case and within-case analyses / Barry Cooper and Judith Glaesser.