A Beginner's Guide to Doing Your Education Research Project

'Mike Lambert's book is a useful source of information, helping to create and shape your research methods project. The book contains detailed chapters with easy to follow guidelines, tips and suggestions ensuring help at every step of the way from start to finish'
Alexander Miesen, student, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences

In this basic guide, step-by-step advice is presented in a clear way and chapters take the reader through the entire process, from planning and doing research, to writing it up. Each stage is covered, with detailed help on choosing a topic, drawing up research questions, doing the literature review, choosing and designing research methods, the ethics of doing research, analyzing data, and collating and presenting findings.

Features in the text include:

• explanations of key research terms

• activities (with answers)

• progress sheets

• case studies

This is an ideal text for undergraduate students undertaking their first ever research project, postgraduates pursuing Masters awards and teachers carrying out action research.

Autorentext

Mike Lambert is Principal Lecturer at the School of Education, University of Wolverhampton. He developed and teaches the university's research-methods module for initial teacher training and has supervised the projects of many students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Inhalt
INTRODUCTION
Research: Important or Just Interesting?
Research and You
Education: A Research-Based Profession?
Why This Book?
Structures and Contents
Features
Time to Start
PART ONE: LEARNING ABOUT RESEARCH
Research, Paradigms and Ethics
The Process of Doing Research
Learning from Other Research
PART TWO: DOING RESEARCH
Choosing Your Topic
Research Questions
Literature Review
Choosing Your Methods
Designing Research Instruments
Validity, Reliability and Ethical Approval
Carrying Out Your Investigation
PART THREE: ANALYZING AND WRITING UP
Analyzing Data and Producing Your Findings
Writing Up Your Project
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
APPENDIX 1: PROJECT SHEETS
APPENDIX 2: ACTIVITY ANSWERS
APPENDIX 3: GLOSSARY
INDEX