1. Introduction
2. Educational research in inquiry: key issues and debates
3. The epistemological context of quantitative of qualitative research
4. Qualitative research as a method on inquiry in education
5. Quantitative research as methods of inquiry in education
6. Research questions and research design
7. Doing a literature review
8. Ethical considerations and legal issues in educational research
9. Action research
10. Ethnographic encounters with children
11. Children’s and young people’s participation within educational and civic settings- comparative case study approach to research
12. Researching classroom interaction and talk
13. Documentary research
14. The application of visual methodology in the exploration of the visual culture of schools
15. Interviewing as educational research methods
16. Experimental and quasi-experimental designs in educational research
17. Survey research in education
18. Evaluation research in education
19. Qualitative research analysis in education
20. Key concepts assumptions in quantitative data analysis
21. Preparing and inputting data in spss15
22. Exploring quantitative data
23. Between-group differences: comparing two or more means
24. Correlation and regression
25. Exploratory factor analysis
26. Writing up and presenting research