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Research Methods and Methodologies in Education
Fourth Edition
Edited by:
- Robert Coe - Evidence Based Education, UK
- Michael Waring - University of Leeds, UK
- Larry V Hedges - Northwestern University, USA
- Laura Day Ashley - University of Birmingham, UK
April 2025 | 496 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Your #1 resource for carrying out educational research as part of postgraduate study.
High-quality educational research requires careful consideration of every aspect of the process. This all-encompassing textbook written by leading international experts gives you a considered overview of the principles that underpin research, and key qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods for research design, data collection and analysis.
This fourth edition includes four new chapters on:
This is essential reading for postgraduate students on education courses and early career researchers looking to sharpen their research practice.
High-quality educational research requires careful consideration of every aspect of the process. This all-encompassing textbook written by leading international experts gives you a considered overview of the principles that underpin research, and key qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods for research design, data collection and analysis.
This fourth edition includes four new chapters on:
- Doing a literature review
- Measurement and validity
- Using R (with RStudio & Tidyverse)
- Data transparency, reproducibility, and replicability
This is essential reading for postgraduate students on education courses and early career researchers looking to sharpen their research practice.
Robert J. Coe
1 Introduction
PART I INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH METHODS AND METHODOLOGIES IN EDUCATION
Robert J. Coe
2 The nature of educational research
Michael Waring
3 Finding your theoretical position
PART II BASIC PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE IN CONDUCTING RESEARCH
Larry V. Hedges
4 Design of empirical research
Laura Day Ashley
5 Planning your research
Laura Day Ashley
6 Doing a literature review
Robert J. Coe
7 Inference and interpretation in research
Martyn Hammersley
8 Research ethics
Larry V. Hedges
9 Data transparency, reproducibility, and replicability
PART III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY OVERVIEWS
Niamh O'Brien, Melanie Boyce and Carol Munn-Giddings
10 Action research
Rob Walker
11 Naturalistic research
Ghazala Bhatti
12 Ethnographic research
Claudia Mitchell
13 Visual methodologies
Michael Waring
14 Grounded theory
Laura Day Ashley
15 Case study research
Emma Smith
16 Secondary data
Carole Torgerson, Jill Hall and Kate Lewis-Light
17 Systematic reviews
Carolyn L. Mears
18 In-depth interviews
Anita Gibbs
19 Focus groups and group interviews
Rhona Sharpe and Greg Benfield
20 Internet-based methods
Eve Stirling
21 Doing social media research
Peter Tymms and Vijay Tymms
22 Questionnaires
Michael Tedder
23 Biographical research
Drew H. Gitomer
24 Methods for observing classroom interactions
Anna Vignoles
25 Longitudinal research
Steve Higgins
26 Impact evaluation
Peter Tymms and Vijay Tymms
27 Interventions: Experiments
Christian Bokhove
28 Computational research methods and data science
Gert Biesta
29 Mixing methods in education research
PART IV ANALYSIS METHODS
Stephen Gorard
30 Statistical and correlational techniques
Arend M. Kuyper
31 Using R with RStudio & Tidyverse
Michael Borenstein
32 Statistical hypothesis tests
Wendy Chan
33 Analysis of variance (ANOVA)
Stephen Gorard
34 Multiple linear regression
Michael Seltzer and Jordan Rickles
35 Multilevel analysis
Robert J. Coe
36 Effect size
Robert J. Coe
37 Measurement and validity
Larry V. Hedges
38 Meta-analysis
Elaine Vaughan
39 Discourse analysis
Michael Atkinson
40 Media analysis
PART V COMMUNICATING RESEARCH
Mike McLinden
41 Disseminating your research
