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008			111229s2011 enka b 001 0 eng
020			_a9780415583367 (soft cover)
020			_a9780415583350 (hard cover)
037			_bSBF2011-ENG
040			_aDLC _cDLC _dDLC _dAE-ShU _cUKB
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050	0	0	_aLB1028 _b.C572 2011
100	1		_aCohen, Louis, _d1928-
245	1	0	_aResearch methods in education / _cLouis Cohen, Lawrence Manion, and Keith Morrison ; with contributions from Richard Bell ... [et al.].
250			_a7th ed.
260			_aLondon ; _aNew York : _bRoutledge, _c2011.
300			_axxii, 758 p. : _bill. (chiefly col.) ; _c25 cm.
365			_b210.60 _cAED
365			_b259.00 _cAED
505	0		_aContents: The nature of enquiry: setting the field -- Critical educational research -- Evaluation and the politics of educational research -- The search for causation -- The ethics of educational and social research -- Choosing a research project -- Planning educational research -- Sampling -- Sensitive educational research -- Validity and reliability -- Nauralistic, qualitative and ethnographic research -- Historical and documentary research in education -- Surveys, longitudinal, cross-sectional and trend studies -- Case studies -- Ex post facto research -- Experiments, quasi-experiments, single-case research and internet-based experiments -- Meta-analysis, research syntheses and systematic reviews -- Action research -- Virtual worlds in educational research -- Questionnaires -- Interviews -- Accounts -- Observation -- Tests -- Personal constructs -- Role-playing -- Visual media in educational research -- Approaches to qualitative data analysis -- Organizing and presenting qualitative data -- Coding and content analysis -- Discourses: conversations, narratives and autobiographies as texts -- Analysing visual media -- Grounded theory -- Approaches to quantitative data analysis -- Descriptive statistics -- Inferential statistics -- Multidimensional measurement and factor analysis -- Choosing a statistical test.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p.711-752) and index.
520			_aThis rewritten, expanded and updated seventh edition of the long-running bestseller Research Methods in Education encompasses the whole range of methods currently employed by educational research at all stages. It offers plentiful and rich practical advice, underpinned by clear theoretical foundations, research evidence and up-to-date references. -- [publisher]
650		0	_aEducation _xResearch _zGreat Britain.
700	1		_aManion, Lawrence.
700	1		_aMorrison, Keith _q(Keith R. B.)
942			_cBKS
999			_c8150 _d8150