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Sherri L. Jackson

Integrates research methods with statistics through a critical thinking lens. Covers descriptive and correlational methods, experimental design, and the descriptive and i...

Louis Cohen, Lawrence Manion, Keith Morrison

The eighth edition of the widely used handbook of educational research methods. Substantially updated with material on mixed methods, internet-based research, complexity ...

Catherine Dawson

The fifth edition of Dawson's practical guide to running a research project, updated with material on digital and online research methods, research ethics and data protec...

Catherine Dawson

A short, plain-English introduction to planning and carrying out a small research project. Covers choosing a methodology, questionnaires, interviews and focus groups, sam...

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 ...

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...

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...

Catherine Dawson

A concise, practical guide to running a small research project. Covers choosing a topic and methodology, questionnaires, interviews and focus groups, sampling, ethics, an...

Catherine Dawson

A collection of one hundred ready-to-use classroom activities for teaching research methods. Each activity includes purpose, level, duration, student handouts and tutor n...

Alan Bryman

A comprehensive textbook covering the full range of social research methods. Treats quantitative and qualitative strategies in parallel, from research design and sampling...

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...

W. Lawrence Neuman

A comprehensive social research textbook that treats qualitative and quantitative approaches together. Covers theory and research, literature review, measurement, samplin...

Steven J. Taylor, Robert Bogdan, Marjorie L. DeVault

A classic guidebook to qualitative fieldwork. Covers participant observation, in-depth interviewing, working with documents, research ethics, analysis and writing, with e...

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

The second edition of this introductory educational research textbook, updated with expanded coverage of mixed methods and action research and additional examples of publ...

Matthew B. Miles, A. Michael Huberman, Johnny Saldaña

An authoritative and practical methods sourcebook dedicated to qualitative data analysis. The book emphasizes practical techniques for data condensation, first- and secon...

David Scott, Marlene Morrison

An alphabetical reference to the key concepts and debates of educational research. Each entry explains a methodological or epistemological idea, its origins and the dispu...

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

The third edition of Creswell's widely used framework for designing research. Compares qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods approaches across philosophical worldvi...

Timothy Teo (Editor)

An edited handbook of quantitative techniques for education researchers, covering measurement and scaling, regression, factor analysis, structural equation modelling, mul...

Stephen D. Lapan, MaryLynn T. Quartaroli, Frances Julia Riemer (Editors)

An edited introduction to the main qualitative designs, with chapters by specialists on ethnography, narrative inquiry, case study, action research, arts-based and evalua...