Contents: Introduction Part 1. The Context of Educational Research: 1. The Nature of Inquiry Part 2. Planning Educational Research: 2. The Ethics of Educational and Social Research 3. Planning Educational Research 4. Sampling 5. Sensitive Educational Research 6. Validity and Reliability Part 3. Styles of Educational Research: 7. Naturalistic and Ethnographic Research 8. Historical and Documentary Research 9. Surveys, Longitudal, Cross-sectional and Trend Studies 10. Internet-based Research and Computer Usage 11. Case Studies 12. Ex Post Facto Research 13. Experiments, Quasi-experiments, Single-case Research and Meta-Analysis 14. Action Research Part 4. Strategies for Data Collection and Researching: 15. Questionnaires 16. Interviews 17. Accounts 18. Observation 19. Tests 20. Personal Constructs 21. Role Playing Part 5. Data Analysis: 22. Approaches to Qualitative Data Analysis 23. Content Analysis and Grounded Theory 24. Quantative Data Analysis 25. Multi-dimensional Measurement and Factor Analysis 26. Choosing a Statistical Test Index
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