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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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8. Selecting Appropriate Research Methods for an Educational Context

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.

Ivankova, N.V. (2013) ‘Implementing Quality Criteria in Designing and Conducting a Sequential QUAN → QUAL Mixed Methods Study of Student Engagement with Learning Applied Research Methods Online’, Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 8(1): 25–51.

Page, R.N. (2001) ‘Reshaping Graduate Preparation in Educational Research Methods: One School’s Experience’, Educational Researcher, 30(5): 19–25.

Goldstein, H.A. (2012) ‘The Quality of Planning Scholarship and Doctoral Education, Journal of Planning Education and Research, 32(4): 493–496.

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