Research methods in education

Häftad bok. Croom Helm, cop. . 1985. 383 sidor.

Gott skick. Anteckningar och understrykningar i blyerts förkommer ///Förlagets beskrivning: A major reason for the slow and unsure progress educational practice has been the inefficfent and unscientific methods used by educators in acauiring knowledge and solvina their problems. Research Methods in Education has been written to cover the whole range of methods currently employed
by educational researchers. It is intended for both the professional researcher and the consumer of research — the teacher, the educational administrator, the adviser and
all those concerned with educational policy and practice.
This second edition includes develooments in methodology and major researches that have occurred since Research Methods in an expansion and major rewrite of Chaoter
1. Historical Research, and Chaoter 3. Developmental Research: the exoansion of Chapter W. Accounts, to include
description and examples of network analysis; and the addition to Chapter 14, Personal Constructs, of the application of grid techniques to audio/video lesson
recording. The authors have also taken the opportunity to update examples by the inclusion of materials from British research reported since 1980.From the reviews of the first edition:'a ^eadable '"trøductory textbook, especially notable for its treatment of the 'newer' interpretative methods of educational research.' List of Boxes and Figures
List of Journals Abbreviated in Text Acknowledgements
Foreword: Professor Mårten Shipman 1. Introduction: the Nature of Inquiry 2. Historical Research 3. Developmsntal Research 4. Surveys 5. Case Studies 6. Correlational Research 7. Ex Post Facto Research 8. Experiments, Quasi-Experiments and Single-Case Research 9. Action Research
10. Accounts 11. Trianaulation 12. Role Playing 13. The Intervie 14. Personal Constructs 15. Multidimensional Measurement Bibliography Index Louis Cohen is Professor of Education at Loughborough University of Technology
and Lawrence Manion is former Principal Lecturer in Music at Didsbury School of Education, Manchester Polytechnic,