Table of Contents:
  • The nature of educational research
  • Research ethics
  • Defining a research problem
  • Sources of research literature
  • Research frameworks
  • Planning a research study
  • Scholarly communication
  • Reviewing the literature
  • Introduction to research methods
  • Historical research
  • Descriptive methods
  • Experimental and quasi-experimental methods
  • Correlational research
  • Ethnographic research
  • Case study
  • Program evaluation
  • Policy research
  • Survey research
  • Questionnaire construction
  • Using interviews for successful data collection
  • Developing effective interview protocols
  • Focus groups.