This best-selling text provides a scheme which enables the beginning researcher to organize and evaluate the research that they read and to plan and implement small scale research projects of their own. The authors also give structured, practical guidance on the development of a research question, techniques of data collection, qualitative and quantitative forms of analysis, and the writing and dissemination of research.
Author(s): Andrew Brown
Edition: 1
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 186
Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Series......Page 3
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
contents......Page 6
Tables and Figures......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Series Editors’ Preface......Page 14
1 Introduction: The Three Rs of Educational Research......Page 17
2 Declaring an Interest: The Empirical and Theoretical Contexts of the Research......Page 22
3 Articulating the Theoretical and Empirical Fields......Page 33
4 Experience and Observation: The Collection of First Hand Data......Page 47
5 Gathering Information and Asking Questions: Interviews, Questionnaires and Accounts......Page 67
6 Quality in Analysis......Page 85
7 Dealing with Quantity......Page 106
8 Specializing, Localizing and Generalizing: A Mode of Interrogation......Page 141
9 Opening and Closing the Account......Page 152
10 The Practitioner and Educational Research: A Manifesto......Page 163
Evaluation......Page 169
Annotated Bibliography......Page 170
Keyword Index......Page 178
