Research Methods in Education - Fifth edition

Author: Cohen, Louis; Manion, Lawerence; Morrison, Keith

Publication Year: 2000

Contents

List of boxes
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: The Context of Educational Research
1. The Nature of Inquiry

Part 2: Planning Educational Research
2. The ethics of educational and social research
3. Research design issues: planning research
4. Sampling
5. Validity and reliability

Part 3: Styles of Educational research
6. Naturalistic and ethnographic research
7. Historical Research
8. Surveys, longitudinal, cross-sectional and trend studies
9. Case Studies
10. Correlational research
11. Ex post facto research
12. Experiments, quasi-experiments and single-case research
13. Action Research

Part 4: Strategies for Data collection and researching
14. Questionnaires
15. Interviews
16. Accounts
17. Observation
18. Tests
19. Personal Constructs
20. Multi-dimensional measurement
21. Role-Playing

Part 5: Recent Developments in education research
22. Recent developments

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Format	Print
Keywords	case studies, activity sampling, planning, development, data collection, ethics, ex-post facto research, observation, historical research
Publisher	RoutledgeFalmer
Classification	development
Edition	5th Ed
ISBN	0415195411
Pages	446
Categories:	Books