Getting Started in Your Educational Research (eBook)

Design, Data Production and Analysis

Clive Opie, Desma Brown (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
384 Seiten
Sage Publications (Verlag)
978-1-5264-8047-7 (ISBN)

Infos

A one-stop shop for anyone undertaking educational research for the first time, this text focuses on the development and application of key skills necessary for successful research.Packed with useful exercises, checklists and case studies, this book will allow the reader to apply their skills across a range of essays, presentations and reports. Using digestible language to explain complex terminology and processes simply, the authors explore working with and presenting data and the software options available to students, including NVivo, SPSS and Excel. The text will help students to: Understand the language of educational research Frame their research questions and design their research Judge the quality of educational research Explore and justify research approaches and procedures (methods) Analyse and present their data

Inhalt

About the Editors
About the Contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface
Online Resources
Chapter 1: Carrying Out Educational Research – The Start of Your Journey
Chapter 2: Research, Theory and Worldviews
Chapter 3: Framing the Research
Chapter 4: Literature Review
Chapter 5: Ethics
Chapter 6: Judging the Quality of Educational Research
Chapter 7: Write or Wrong? Conventions and Myths in Academic Literacy
Chapter 8: Research Approaches
Chapter 9: Research Procedures
Chapter 10: Analyzing and Presenting Your Research Data
Chapter 11: Understanding and Applying Qualitative Data Analysis
Chapter 12: Using NVivo in Your Research
Chapter 13: Understanding Quantitative Data Analysis
Chapter 14: Using Excel/SPSS in Your Research
References

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.4.2019
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lektüren / Interpretationen
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Schlagworte: Educational Research • education data • Education research • education research books • research design in education • research in education • research process in education • research project education
• ISBN-10: 1-5264-8047-6 / 1526480476
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5264-8047-7 / 9781526480477