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Research Methods and Methodologies in Education
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Research Methods and Methodologies in Education

Fourth Edition
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448 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:
  • Doing a literature review
  • Measurement and validity
  • Using R (with RStudio & Tidyverse)
  • Data transparency, reproducibility, and replicability
In addition, across the book, authors touch on the emergent use of generative AI tools as part of the educational research process. Also, chapters have been reordered to better reflect the research process and to emphasise commonalities between methodological approaches and tools.

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

Very well laid out and comprehensive title that clearly sets out the key themes and methods.

Mr Ben Yates
Department Education, Guildford College
January 13, 2025

Robert Coe

Robert Coe, Director of Research and Development at Evidence Based Education, Senior Associate at the Education Endowment Foundation and Honorary Professor of Education at Durham University.  His research interests focus on the application of research to supporting improvements in educational practice, drawing on experience as a university professor and high school teacher, with particular expertise in evaluation methodology and educational assessment. More About Author

Michael Waring

Dr Michael Waring, Griffith Institute for Educational Research, School of Education and Professional Studies, Griffith University, Australia. He sits on the executive of the Society for Educational Studies, and is on the editorial board of the British Journal of Educational Studies and Higher Education Pedagogies. His research interests focus on the development of inclusive participatory pedagogy, assessment feedback, research literacy and the use of learning technologies as part of distance and blended learning in higher education and initial teacher education contexts. Generally, and as part of the exploration of this personalised... More About Author

Larry V. Hedges

Larry V. Hedges is one of eight Board of Trustees Professors at Northwestern, the university’s most distinguished academic position. He holds appointments in statistics and data science, psychology, education and social policy, and medical social sciences. Previously, he was the Stella M. Rowley Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He received the Yidan Prize in Education Research in 2018 and the José Vasconcelos World Award of Education from the World Culture Council in 2023 He is an elected member of the National Academy of Education and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American... More About Author

Laura Day Ashley

Dr Laura Day Ashley, University of Birmingham, Lecturer and Co-Head of Research and Knowledge Transfer for the Department of Education and Social Justice. She has a background in social anthropology and comparative and international education, with a particular interest in alternative, informal and non-state forms of education provision beyond, or at the margins of, mainstream state schooling. Her research on private and non-state schools in low and middle-income countries has achieved significant and sustained policy impact. She has particular expertise in case study research in multiple contexts, and the development of rigorous... More About Author