This best-selling text provides a scheme which enables the beginning researcher to organize and evaluate the research that they read and to plan and implement small scale research projects of their own. The authors also give structured, practical guidance on the development of a research question, techniques of data collection, qualitative and quantitative forms of analysis, and the writing and dissemination of research.
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"Contents1. Introduction: The Three Rs of Educational Research
2. Declaring an Interest: The Empirical and Theoretical Contexts of the Research
3. Articulating the Theoretical and Empirical Fields
5. Experience and Observation: The Collection o First Hand Data
6. Gathering Information and Asking Questions: Interviews, Questionnaires and Accounts
7. Quality in Analysis
8. Dealing with Quantity
8. Specializing, Localizing and Generalizing: A Mode of Interrogation
9. Opening and Closing the Account
10. The Practitioner and Educational Research: A Manifesto."
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0750707283
- ISBN 13 9780750707282
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages150