A Quick Guide to Research Methods for Dissertations in Education

✍ Scribed by Abigail Parrish (editor), Ghazal Shaikh (editor)

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 189
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Are you about to start your dissertation in education? Not sure what methods to use? Providing you with an invaluable starting point, this book gives practical information about a variety of research methods, including their pros and cons, things you need to consider before using each method and crucially, what they are not suitable for. It looks at the most commonly used methods as well as some you might not have come across before.
Each chapter features examples and activities, and will help you answer these questions:
- What can this method tell me?
- When might I use it?
- What ethical issues do I need to consider?
- What is the key terminology I need to know?
- How can I design a dissertation project with this method?
- How do I analyse my data?
- What is this method not suitable for?

Written in uncomplicated language, it is a student-friendly resource to dip into, with links to further reading for more in-depth exploration of any particular method.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Figures
Tables
Boxes
Contributors
Introduction
Part One Commonly Used Methods
Chapter one Interviews (Ghazal Shaikh)
Chapter two Focus Groups (Elizabeth Bailey)
Chapter three Questionnaires (Abigail Parrish)
Chapter four Observations (Géraldine Bengsch)
Part Two Further Qualitative Methods
Chapter five Document Analysis (Sheikha Al Sheyadi)
Chapter six Discourse Analysis (Asadullah Lashari)
Chapter seven Ethnography (Ambreen Shahriar and Asadullah Lashari)
Chapter eight Netnography (Kevin McLaughlin)
Chapter nine Visual Data (Jayme Scally)
Chapter ten Think-Alouds (Hassan Syed)
Part Three Further Quantitative Methods
Chapter eleven Reaction Time Methods (Jelena O’Reilly)
Chapter twelve Experimental Designs (Verónica García-Castro)
Conclusion: Where Next? (Abigail Parrish and Ghazal Shaikh)
Index