The BERA/SAGE Handbook of Educational Research represents a complete reference that provides new approaches and timely discussion of educational research principles.

Table of Contents

• Editorial Board
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Boxes
• Notes on the Editors and Contributors
• Preface
• Introduction
• Volume 1
• PART I UNDERSTANDING RESEARCH
• 1 Reasons for Education Research - Ian Menter
• 2 The Role of Theory in Research - Mary Lou Rasmussen
• 3 The Ethics of Research - Hannah Farrimond
• 4 Shared Principles of Causal Inference in Qualitative and Quantitative Research - Sean Kelly
• 5 The Validity and Reliability of Research: A Realist Perspective - Joseph A. Maxwell
• PART II PLANNING RESEARCH
• 6 Approaches to Reviewing Research in Education - Jill Denner, Erica Marsh and Shannon Campe
• 7 Purposes for Educational Research - Peter Tymms
• 8 Research Questions in Education Research: Their Neglect, Role and Development - Patrick White
• 9 An Introduction to the Importance of Research Design - Stephen Gorard
• 10 A Positivist Orientation: Hypothesis Testing and the ‘Scientific Method’ - Roger Gomm
• 11 Interpretivism as a Theory of Knowledge - David Scott
• 12 Unpacking Pragmatism for Mixed Methods Research: The Philosophies of Peirce, James, Dewey, and Rorty - R. Burke Johnson, Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie, Cornelis de Waal, Tres Stefurak and David Hildebrand
• 13 Sampling Decisions in Educational Research: Criteria, Designs, and Challenges - Kathleen M. T. Collins
• PART III APPROACHES TO RESEARCH
• 14 Historical Research - Gary McCulloch
• 15 Using International Comparative Studies in Achievement in Educational Research - Larry E. Suter
• 16 Ethnography - Sara Delamont
• 17 Grounded Theory - Robert Thornberg
• 18 Case Study Research - Malcolm Tight
• 19 Surveys: Longitudinal, Cross-sectional and Trend Studies - Alice Sullivan and Lisa Calderwood
• 20 True Experimental Designs - Carole J. Torgerson and David J. Torgerson
• 21 Lighting a Spark, Seeing the Light: Educational Action Research as Transformative Practice - Mary Brydon-Miller, Maricar S. Prudente and Socorro Echevarria Aguja
• 22 Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis - Sandy Oliver and Janice Tripney
• 23 Mixed Methods Approaches and their Application in Educational Research - Pamela Sammons and Susila Davis
• 24 Using Secondary Data Analysis for Educational Research - Pamela E. Davis-Kean and Justin Jager
• 25 Researching in Digital Environments - Rebecca Eynon
• Volume 2
• PART IV ACQUIRING DATA
• 26 Access, Sites and Settings - Jerry West
• 27 Observing and Recording Classroom Processes - Frank Hardman and Jan Hardman
• 28 Personal Experience Methods in Practitioner Research - Amanda Berry and Monica Taylor
• 29 Multimodality, Meaning and Data Analysis - Mark Evan Nelson
• 30 Research Interviews - Amir Marvasti and Carrie Freie
• 31 Surveys and Questionnaires - Stacey Bielick
• 32 Measurement - Stephen G. Sireci and Joshua Marland
• PART V ANALYSING DATA
• 33 Cataloguing and Organizing Data - Susan M. Jekielek, Jared Lyle, Johanna Davidson Bleckman and Rujuta Umarji
• 34 The Role of Theory in Quantitative Data Analysis - Terri D. Pigott
• 35 Descriptive Statistics - Jeffrey T. Steedle
• 36 Inferential Statistics - Paul E. Jose and Agnes Szabo
• 37 How Should Numeric Data be Analysed? - Stephen Gorard
• 38 Coding and Analyzing Qualitative Data - Barbara B. Kawulich
• 39 Conversation Analysis - Myrte Gosen and Tom Koole
• 40 Discourse Analysis/Critical Discourse Analysis - Christoph A. Hafner
• 41 Content Analysis - James B. Schreiber and Lyndsie N. Ferrara
• 42 Confirmatory Factor Analysis - D. Betsy McCoach and Sarah D. Newton
• 43 Logistic Regression - Chao-Ying Joanne Peng
• 44 Multilevel Modelling for Educational Data - Harvey Goldstein
• 45 Big Data and Educational Research - Roser Beneito-Montagut
• PART VI REPORTING, DISSEMINATING & EVALUATING RESEARCH
• 46 Generalizability - Guillermo Solano-Flores
• 47 Writing about Research - Pat Thomson
• 48 Communicating Research Findings - Mark Rickinson
• 49 Social Media and Academic Publishing - Inger Mewburn and Pat Thomson
• 50 Evaluation of and Accountability for Individual and Institutional Research on Education - Larry E. Suter
• 51 Using Research Findings - Chris Brown