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Doing Research in Education: Theory and Practice

by Ioanna Palaiologou, David Needham and Trevor Male

Student Resources

  • SAGE Journal Articles
    • 1. The Purpose of Research: Why do we do it?
    • 2. Making sense of Research Methodology
    • 3. Ethical Issues Associated with Educational Research
    • 4. Constructing the Hypotheses/Creating the Research Question(s)
    • 5. Managing the Project
    • 6. Writing the Proposal
    • 7. Constructing the Literature Section
    • 8. Selecting Appropriate Research Methods for an Educational Context
    • 9. Collecting Qualitative Data
    • 10. Analysing Qualitative Data
    • 11. Collecting Quantitative Data
    • 12. Analysing Quantitative Data
    • 13. Research Analysis and Discussion
    • 14. Writing and Reporting the Research
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2. Making sense of Research Methodology

Select SAGE Journal articles are available to give you even more insight into chapter topics. These are also an ideal resource to help support your literature reviews, dissertations and assignments.

Click on the following links which will open in a new window.

Shannon-Baker, P. (2015) ‘Making Paradigms Meaningful in Mixed Methods Research’, Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 1558689815575861.

Biddle, C. and Schafft, K.A. (2015) ‘Axiology and Anomaly in the Practice of Mixed Methods Work: Pragmatism, Valuation, and the Transformative Paradigm’, Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 9(4): 320–334.

Mittwede, S.K. (2012) ‘Research Paradigms and their Use and Importance in Theological Inquiry and Education’, Journal of Education and Christian Belief, 16(1): 23–40.

DeLyser, D. and Sui, D. (2013) ‘Crossing the qualitative-quantitative chasm III: Enduring methods, open geography, participatory research, and the fourth paradigm’, Progress in Human Geography, 38(2): 294–307.

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