Doing Your Education Research Project
- Neil Burton - University of Leicester, UK
- Mark Brundrett - Liverpool John Moores University, UK
- Marion Jones - Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Supported by examples, checklists and diagrams, this fully revised and updated edition includes a wealth of information on:
- Research design
- Evidence gathering techniques
- Practitioner research
- Ethics
- Data analysis techniques.
This book will be valuable to anyone begining a research or a professional or a professional or school development project, whatever stage they are at within the teaching community, from training for QTS, higher degree, or in need of evidence-backed decisions for the strategic development of their school.
Provides a helpful overview of methods to complete an educational research project. The case studies, worked examples and templates are particularly helpful to facilitate research design.
Just the book you need when doing educational research. Would recommend it as an interesting read towards your research.
Although written with a focus on research in schools much of this is relevant to any research student within education. Clearly explained, guidance e to follow in supporting the research project and easy to signpost students to specific aspects of the research. Accessible language, terminology plainly defined.
This is a concise, well-structure introduction to empirical research for people whose first priority in their job does NOT lie in surveying and analyzing. The book takes teachers and teacher-students 'by the hand' and guides from the early stages of their education research project to the more sophisticated questions of quantitative data analyses. Chapters are neither too long nor too short and can be skimmed easily as there are well-structuring headings and boxes. Order of the chapters is such that a complete novice in the field will find support and will be quite advance when finishing reading (even t-tests, most common correlations are addressed). The book gives a founded overview over qualitative and quantitative approaches to empirical research. It does not, however, render superfluous more detailed and deeper text books on the issues (then again, it doesn't claim to do so). Bearing in mind that empirical research in education contexts is not necessarily at everybody's hearts and for more than just a few will remain a dire necessity, this book provides welcome help and certain support.
Provided an excellent guide for student in dissertation year this year and so will adopt for future cohorts
