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C. R. Kothari

A widely used textbook of research methodology. Covers research design, sampling, measurement and scaling, data collection, processing and analysis, hypothesis testing, m...

Jerry Wellington

An accessible overview of educational research that combines contemporary methodological debate with practical guidance on designing studies, collecting and analysing dat...

R. Burke Johnson, Larry Christensen

A full-length textbook treating quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods research as equal partners. Covers measurement, sampling, all major designs, data analysis and...

Stephen Gorard, Chris Taylor

Argues for combining qualitative and quantitative methods in educational and social research, and shows through worked examples how mixed designs strengthen the warrant f...

Geoffrey E. Mills

A step-by-step guide for teachers conducting action research in their own classrooms. Covers identifying an area of focus, ethics, data collection and analysis, developin...

Lin S. Norton

A practical guide to pedagogical action research for university teachers. Explains how to move from a teaching problem to a researchable question, choose methods, analyse...

John W. Creswell

A comprehensive guide for designing research proposals and projects across qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches. It explores foundational philosophical...

John W. Creswell

A step-by-step introduction to the educational research process. Presents quantitative and qualitative traditions side by side across problem identification, literature r...

Donna Kalmbach Phillips, Kevin Carr

Integrates action research with teacher identity development for pre-service teachers. Combines a process guide with self-study exercises and narratives from beginning te...

Michael Quinn Patton

A comprehensive treatment of qualitative inquiry and evaluation. Covers theoretical traditions, qualitative design and purposeful sampling, fieldwork and interviewing, an...

Louis Cohen, Lawrence Manion, Keith Morrison

The sixth edition of the standard educational research handbook, organised around the context of research, planning, research styles, data collection strategies and data ...

Catherine Dawson

An alphabetical guide to digital and online research methods, from digital ethnography and online interviews to web scraping and social media analysis, with practical, et...

Adrian Wallwork

The first edition of Wallwork's guide to writing research papers in English. Explains how to structure each section of a paper, write clearly and concisely, and manage th...

Louis Cohen, Lawrence Manion, Keith Morrison

The fifth edition of the standard educational research reference. Covers the nature and ethics of educational inquiry, research styles such as case study and action resea...

Patricia Leavy

Presents five research traditions side by side — quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods, arts-based and community-based participatory research — with a common design fr...

Donald Ary, Lucy Cheser Jacobs, Chris Sorensen

A standard introduction to educational research. Covers the research problem, hypotheses, sampling, measurement and reliability, descriptive and inferential statistics, e...

John W. Creswell, Cheryl N. Poth

Compares five qualitative approaches — narrative research, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography and case study — across philosophical assumptions, design, data col...

Sarah J. Tracy

A phronetic, problem-based introduction to qualitative research. Guides readers from research design and field access through interviewing, coding and analysis to writing...

Stephen Gorard

A short, non-technical introduction to using numbers in educational research. Explains sampling, measurement, simple analysis and the interpretation of statistical result...

Marguerite G. Lodico, Dean T. Spaulding, Katherine H. Voegtle

An introductory educational research text that links research theory to classroom practice. Covers quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods and action research designs, m...